{"id":1171,"date":"2008-07-09T00:07:48","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T23:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1171"},"modified":"2013-11-20T19:18:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T19:18:51","slug":"missed-opportunity-of-badger-proportions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/missed-opportunity-of-badger-proportions\/","title":{"rendered":"Missed Opportunity of Badger proportions"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Every now and then I have a 'missed opportunity', one of those perfect moments when everything falls in to place but for some reason or other you fail to get the shot that is staring down the barrel of the camera. So it was this evening. I was outside looking for moths (and waiting for foxes). I had the camera ready (24-105 lens + teleconverter), flash charged. I was standing at the rear of the garden and turned back to go into the house. Facing me, about 20 feet away was a badger. It stopped. Looked at me. Waited. And could I get the camera to focus?:insane: Could I heck as like. The badger gave a last look as though to say it had been very fair and given me every opportunity to get a shot, and then wandered back where it had come from, all casual like! It even popped its head back up the steps to have a last look around before disappearing into the hedge. <\/p>\n

So no badger, but a couple of shots from today.<\/p>\n

Juvenile blackbird makes friends with a slug :whistle:<\/span>
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<\/span>[\/IMG]Hoverflies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The hoverfly shot is my latest wallpaper. If you click the image it will take you to the Wallpaper album<\/a> where you can download a 1280×1024 version.<\/p>\n

Camera note: both today's shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. I used a touch of fill-flash for the hoverflies.<\/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":[980,252,991],"tags":[160,101,1163],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-hoverfly","category-insects-2","tag-badger-2","tag-bird","tag-hoverfly","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t