{"id":6981,"date":"2013-03-24T07:53:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T14:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=6981"},"modified":"2013-03-23T08:13:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T15:13:16","slug":"play-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2013\/03\/play-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Ball!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6982\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/13M_8684RAW-SOU-softball.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6982\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/13M_8684RAW-SOU-softball-800x395.jpg\" alt=\"SOUthern oregon university softball field grizzly peak\" width=\"800\" height=\"395\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/13M_8684RAW-SOU-softball-800x395.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/13M_8684RAW-SOU-softball-250x123.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6982\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SOU softball field with Grizzly Peak in the background<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Major League Baseball begins regular season play in just over a week. Today&#8217;s photo is the view between games of a softball doubleheader last weekend in Ashland. The Lady Raiders won both games. <\/p>\n<p>Normally I&#8217;d need to take three or four photos and photomerge them together for a shot like this. However, I used my new (to me, it&#8217;s a used lens actually) <a href=http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/bento-lunch\/>Nikon 20mm f\/2.8 prime lens<\/a> and was able to capture foul pole to foul pole in a single image. I love this lens for its optics, size, and weight, but I only purchased it because it was part of a package deal with a 50mm f\/1.2 lens. I also have a 24mm f\/2.8 (and a 14-24mm f\/2.8) so I don&#8217;t really need both (or all three). Therefore, if you are interested in the 20mm f\/2.8 manual focus lens, make me an offer I can&#8217;t refuse, and it will be yours. Oh yeah, and if you shoot with a Canon, it also came with a <a href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001G4QXLE\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B001G4QXLE&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=rpcman target=_new>Fotodiox Lens Mount Adapter<\/a> which allows you to use this, or any, Nikon lens on a Canon DSLR. I&#8217;ll toss this in at no extra charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Baseball begins regular season play in just over a week. Today&#8217;s photo is the view between games of a softball doubleheader last weekend in Ashland. The Lady Raiders won both games. Normally I&#8217;d need to take three or four photos and photomerge them together for a shot like this. However, I used my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,10],"tags":[5,225,197,149,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6984,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6981\/revisions\/6984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}