{"id":3752,"date":"2022-10-04T05:25:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T04:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=3752"},"modified":"2022-10-04T05:38:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T04:38:35","slug":"week-37-cycling-and-testing-a-new-lens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=3752","title":{"rendered":"Week 37: cycling, and testing a new lens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A short blog this week. The main event was the acquisition of a new lens for my Fuji X cameras, a 17-70mm f2.8 Tamron zoom, to see if it could serve as the only lens to take on trips.<\/p>\n<p><strong>37_1<\/strong><br \/>\nStarting in my garden. My mother&#8217;s cactus was rewarding us with flowers again:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/37_1.jpg\" alt=\"R007417\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>37_2<\/strong><br \/>\nA beautiful sunrise during one of my daily pre-work bike rides:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/37_2.jpg\" alt=\"1020714\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>37_3<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/37_3.jpg\" alt=\"1020718\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>37_4<\/strong><br \/>\nThen on to my testing of the new lens. I did it the usual way, by going to the centre and taking some pictures, starting with the fountain on Plaza de Correos:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/37_4.jpg\" alt=\"DSF3555\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>37_5<\/strong><br \/>\nI then went for a beer at my favourite bar, Malatesta, which also provided me with opportunities for testing the lens at full aperture:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/37_5.jpg\" alt=\"DSF3562\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>37_6<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/37_6.jpg\" alt=\"DSF3559\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>37_7<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/37_7.jpg\" alt=\"DSF3560\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>37_8<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/37_8.jpg\" alt=\"DSF3561\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>37_9<\/strong><br \/>\nAt the weekend, I was out cycling as usual, stopping in the village of Verdeg\u00c3\u00a1s for a short break. One thing I like about the village are the cats that hang around the church square. On this occasion, this cat was sleeping on one of the benches:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/37_9.jpg\" alt=\"1020721\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>37_10<\/strong><br \/>\nThen the kitty moved under the bench in search of shade:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/37_10.jpg\" alt=\"1020723\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>37_11<\/strong><br \/>\nAnother cat, also looking for a shady spot:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/37_11.jpg\" alt=\"1020724\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>37_12<\/strong><br \/>\nAnd finally, this beautiful orange specimen, walking into the bushes on the side of the church:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/2022\/37_12.jpg\" alt=\"1020727\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short blog this week. The main event was the acquisition of a new lens for my Fuji X cameras, a 17-70mm f2.8 Tamron zoom, to see if it could serve as the only lens to take on trips. 37_1 Starting in my garden. My mother&#8217;s cactus was rewarding us with flowers again: 37_2 A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3513,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3752"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3753,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3752\/revisions\/3753"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}