{"id":4724,"date":"2025-06-02T23:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T22:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2025-06-02T23:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T22:02:21","slug":"a-tree-hoof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/02\/a-tree-hoof\/","title":{"rendered":"A tree hoof"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>These trees reminded me of the hooves of some giant beasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data-attachment-id=\"4723\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2025-01-03a-004\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2025-01-03A-004.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Eddy Young&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D850&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1735914229&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright (C) 2024&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;145&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;200&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"2025-01-03A-004\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2025-01-03A-004-300x169.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2025-01-03A-004-1024x576.jpg\" data-id=\"4723\" src=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2025-01-03A-004.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2025-01-03A-004.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2025-01-03A-004-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2025-01-03A-004-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2025-01-03A-004-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2025-01-03A-004-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These trees reminded me of the hooves of some giant beasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j9q5-1ec","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4268,"url":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/24\/you-win-some-you-lose-some\/","url_meta":{"origin":4724,"position":0},"title":"You win some, you lose some","author":"Eddy Young","date":"24 September 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"These are the \"you lose some\" from a roll of Fomapan 200 exposed with a Nikon FM2. 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