{"id":697,"date":"2009-01-22T11:07:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T05:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wokay.in\/?p=697"},"modified":"2009-01-22T11:07:07","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T05:37:07","slug":"%e0%a4%b6%e0%a5%81%e0%a4%ad%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%82%e0%a4%ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/22\/%e0%a4%b6%e0%a5%81%e0%a4%ad%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%82%e0%a4%ad\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0936\u0941\u092d\u093e\u0930\u0902\u092d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So thanks to airfares going down again, I had enough money spare to buy the awesome Nikkor 50 mm f\/1.8 lens, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selectiveamnesia.org\">Chandru<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.withinandwithout.com\">Nega<\/a> have been praising and taking awesome photos with. It seemed appropriate to inaugurate the lens by taking photos of my mum&#8217;s many Ganesh idols.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, my first few attempts didn&#8217;t quite work out and the first decent photo that I took on the lens was one of my mum, not of Ganapati. A day later, I did get this awesome shot of a painted Ganapati in front of a stone one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Sriganesh by aadishtk, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aadisht\/3203597125\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3495\/3203597125_5c33433a31.jpg?resize=450%2C451\" alt=\"Sriganesh\" width=\"450\" height=\"451\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The photo was cropped to squareness in Picasa, but the soft focus on the background is entirely the lens&#8217;s good work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So thanks to airfares going down again, I had enough money spare to buy the awesome Nikkor 50 mm f\/1.8 lens, which Chandru and Nega have been praising and taking awesome photos with. It seemed appropriate to inaugurate the lens by taking photos of my mum&#8217;s many Ganesh idols. Unfortunately, my first few attempts didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[189,313,855,857,1729,2374],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-auspicious-beginning","tag-bokeh","tag-ganapati","tag-ganesh","tag-prime-lens","tag-vighneshwara"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-bf","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}