{"id":3088,"date":"2021-09-23T10:19:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T07:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/?p=3088"},"modified":"2021-09-23T10:50:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T07:50:23","slug":"the-forest-of-marchaevo-photowalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2021\/09\/23\/the-forest-of-marchaevo-photowalk\/","title":{"rendered":"The forest of Marchaevo (a short photowalk)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 11\/Sep.\/2021, we went to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/@42.6073427,23.1812191,1076m\/data=!3m1!1e3\">Marchaevo village<\/a>. There is a nice forest right next to the village where we may go every once in a while. It&#8217;s not a very popular place so we could enjoy some peace and quiet &#8212; which is always a nice thing. :-)))<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210911_132455986.1600px.jpg\" title=\"The forest of Marchaevo: An experiment with ants, beginning.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210911_132455986.720px.jpg\" alt=\"The forest of Marchaevo: An experiment with ants, beginning.\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>An experiment &#8212; let&#8217;s give some tangerines and bread to the red-black ants&#8230; and see what happens a couple of hours later!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/\" title=\"The forest of Marchaevo: \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210911_132455986_cropped.720px.jpg\" alt=\"The forest of Marchaevo: \" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Just a crop of the previous photo. I love all the details that the Pixel 4 was able to capture in this macro.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210911_140907089.1600px.jpg\" title=\"The forest of Marchaevo: Onopordum acanthium.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210911_140907089.720px.jpg\" alt=\"The forest of Marchaevo: Onopordum acanthium.\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A Scottish thistle, also known as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Onopordum_acanthium\">Onopordum acanthium<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210911_141121053.1600px.jpg\" title=\"The forest of Marchaevo: Brambles.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210911_141121053.720px.jpg\" alt=\"The forest of Marchaevo: Brambles.\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Brambles. They were tasty, too, not only beautiful!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210911_143939421_2.1600px.jpg\" title=\"The forest of Marchaevo: The Peaceful Forest\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210911_143939421_2.720px.jpg\" alt=\"The forest of Marchaevo: The Peaceful Forest\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;The Peaceful Forest&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210911_144456536.1600px.jpg\" title=\"The forest of Marchaevo: The Peaceful Forest, Part II\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210911_144456536.720px.jpg\" alt=\"The forest of Marchaevo: The Peaceful Forest, Part II\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;The Peaceful Forest, Part II&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210911_153353758_2.1600px.jpg\" title=\"The forest of Marchaevo: A magical web.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210911_153353758_2.720px.jpg\" alt=\"The forest of Marchaevo: A magical web.\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A magical web.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210911_154652338.1600px.jpg\" title=\"The forest of Marchaevo: Birches at sunset.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210911_154652338.720px.jpg\" alt=\"The forest of Marchaevo: Birches at sunset.\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Birches at sunset.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210911_161525497.1600px.jpg\" title=\"The forest of Marchaevo: The experiment with the ants, three hours later.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210911_161525497.720px.jpg\" alt=\"The forest of Marchaevo: The experiment with ants, three hours later.\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The experiment, three hours later &#8212; the bread has 100% disappeared; while the tangerines were still work-in-progress. :-)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210911_163200765.1600px.jpg\" title=\"The forest of Marchaevo: A deer.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210911_163200765.720px.jpg\" alt=\"The forest of Marchaevo: A deer.\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>A deer, staring at our car!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When we were going back to Sofia, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.molif.com\/\">Ani<\/a> suddenly saw a deer! A young beautiful deer. We have never seen a deer around these places &#8212; but lo and behold! here it was. We tried a shot or two, but of course, a digital zoom is no match to an optical one and the photos were blurry and pixelated. Still&#8230; more important is that we saw this beautiful animal. :-)<\/p>\n<p>The deer stared at us for a minute or two, and we stared at the deer. Then it left &#8212; jumping elegantly, it soon disappeared in the woods next to this meadow. <\/p>\n<p>This was the most magical thing of that day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>*update* (10:37):<\/strong> Ani made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/PXL_20210911_163144614.jpg\" title=\"The forest of Marchaevo: A deer. [photo by Ani]\">better photo<\/a> &#8212; still blurry but it&#8217;s better, here&#8217;s a crop:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/wp-uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot_20210911-194050_2.jpg\" alt=\"The forest of Marchaevo: A deer. [photo by Ani]\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 11\/Sep.\/2021, we went to Marchaevo village. There is a nice forest right next to the village where we may go every once in a while. It&#8217;s not a very popular place so we could enjoy some peace and quiet &#8212; which is always a nice thing. :-))) An experiment &#8212; let&#8217;s give some tangerines&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3096,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions\/3096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}