{"id":1185,"date":"2008-08-03T00:08:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T23:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1185"},"modified":"2013-11-20T18:15:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T18:15:22","slug":"variable-light-or-a-typical-english-summer-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/variable-light-or-a-typical-english-summer-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Variable Light&#8230; or a Typical English Summer&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Being obsessed about the weather is a common enough trait in England, but sometimes I think being English and into photography takes the obsession to new levels. It&#39;s not only whether it is hot or cold (I don&#39;t really mind which), or wet or dry (I prefer dry), but whether the light is good or poor (I hate poor light. Period).<\/p>\n<p>Today it was wet all morning (bad), and misty (double bad); but it brightened up in the afternoon (good) and on the way back from the shops we headed over to the Downs. The light was excellent when I took this shot of a marbled white in among the grass.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/marbled_white_butterfly_0208080474.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>It was still quite good a short while later when I took this.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/downs_0208080483.jpg' \/><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>But within a bare couple of minutes, the sun had vanished and we were facing this.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/downs_0208080486.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Which is more or less when I saw this.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/kestrel_0208080529.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Only to get home to find this.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/garden_0208080550.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><i>Camera note: all shots taken with the EF100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS USM lens.<\/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":[1],"tags":[437,1137,153],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-light","tag-nature","tag-weather","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","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=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}