{"id":1090,"date":"2008-03-15T23:03:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1090"},"modified":"2013-11-22T22:37:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T22:37:48","slug":"italive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/italive\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s alive!"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I saw one of the tadpolette&#39;s move today. They are still in embryonic form, but respond to light by flexing and curling. That&#39;s not the sort of thing you can capture with a still camera, so you&#39;ll have to take my word for it. But it was very distinctive. They also seem to be developing gills, as you can see in this shot.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/frogspawn_1503088699.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>On other fronts, I got my 100-400 lens back today. I&#39;d been without it for the past couple of weeks while it was being repaired. The zoom grip had come loose which meant the lens slid around as I carried it. Not a disaster, but it needed fixing. I&#39;m pleased to have it back,and somehow acquired a tripod while I was in the shop. :whistle: Now I just need some decent weather to give it a good workout. This blue tit gave me an opportunity for a quick test run with the lens.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/bluetit_1503088640.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As for the foxes, the last two nights has seen the nicked-ear vixen put in fleeting appearances. She&#39;s looking well, but I&#39;m now confused about whether she&#39;s pregnant, or had her cubs, or whether the whole thing was in my imagination. I&#39;ve not seen the other vixen, so it could be that &#39;nicked-ear&#39; is a secondary vixen which would explain her relatively high activity.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/fox_shy_vixen_1503088703.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>On a quite different note, I was in London yesterday and ended up near the new British Library. I didn&#39;t have time to go in, but I was taken with the statue of &#39;Newton&#39; (after William Blake) that adorns the entrance. It&#39;s by Eduardo Paolozzi.<br \/><img SRC=\"http:\/\/files.myopera.com\/Words\/albums\/441791\/BL_newton_1403088567.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/forum\/BL_newton_1403088541.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: the photos of the spawn and vixen were taken with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro lens; the blue tit was with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS; and the statue with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,4,278,1],"tags":[33,405,1128,406],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-foxes","category-tadpole","category-uncategorized","tag-birds","tag-forg-spwan","tag-fox","tag-paolozzi","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}