{"id":39269,"date":"2013-08-06T10:13:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T14:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=39269"},"modified":"2013-08-06T10:13:05","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T14:13:05","slug":"morning-eye-candy-specialized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/08\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-specialized\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Specialized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kodai Nakazawa&#8217;s tools are as integral to his work as the know-how he puts behind them. Last week, <a title=\"Plant Talk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/07\/garden-programming\/morning-eye-candy-patience-process\/\">I teased his efforts<\/a> in the Nolen Greenhouses for Living Collections as the return of a Garden favorite. And those who chimed in were right\u2014<em>Kiku<\/em> is coming! We&#8217;ll have more for you in the coming weeks as we draw nearer to this meticulously prepared Japanese chrysanthemum exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>If you appreciate the implements of a specialized artform as much as I do, you&#8217;ll understand why these leaf cutters\u2014with their subtle dimensional differences\u2014are so fascinating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kiku.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"39289\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/08\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-specialized\/attachment\/kiku\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kiku.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2500,1667\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;thebluroffice&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1374745733&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Tools of the Trade\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kiku-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kiku-1024x682.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-39289\" alt=\"Tools of the Trade\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kiku-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"567\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kiku-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kiku-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kiku.jpg 2500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kodai Nakazawa&#8217;s tools are as integral to his work as the know-how he employs them with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":39289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[952,146],"tags":[70,4624,3462,3464,1512,2169,4640,3463],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Kiku.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-adn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39269"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39323,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39269\/revisions\/39323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}