{"id":1301,"date":"2009-02-04T00:02:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T00:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1301"},"modified":"2013-11-16T00:23:53","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T00:23:53","slug":"the-last-of-the-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/the-last-of-the-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"The last of the snow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Most of the extreme snow  we had yesterday &#8211; the heaviest in 20 years &#8211; was gone by lunchtime (English weather is so fickle), but not before I had negotiated the ice-rink that passes for our road (all the other roads round here were clear) and made my way in to work. Still I managed to catch the last of it, and catch a few of the local residents as well.<\/p>\n<p>This was taken soon after I arrived at work. The light was perfect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/seagull_0302092531.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/seagull_0302092531.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"seagull in snow\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Seagull in snow<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>By lunchtime the light was more variable, but we had some blue skies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/campus_snow_0302092615.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/campus_snow_0302092615.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"South Downs snow view\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">South Downs snow view<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/campus_snow_0302092625.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/campus_snow_0302092625.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"South Downs snow view\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">South Downs snow view<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>And of course, the birds were at their prettiest with a snowy backdrop.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/pwt_0302092693.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/pwt_0302092693.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"pied wagtail in snow\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Pied wagtail<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/jackdaw_0302092732.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/jackdaw_0302092732.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"jackdaw in snow\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Jackdaw<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>There are a few more of the birds in my <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/show.dml?id=688633\" target=\"_blank\">February Birds<\/a> album.<\/p>\n<p>The sun was setting by the time I left to head back home. I&#39;d not parked in my usual place (up a perilously steep hill which was closed off today), so I had to cut across to the front of the campus on my way out. The sun was casting gorgeous reds and oranges across the snow. The photo doesn&#39;t quite do the colours justice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/campus_snow_0302092779.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/campus_snow_0302092779.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"South Sussex campus\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Sussex campus<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/><span class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/natureblognetwork.com\/button.php?u=Words\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" alt=\"Nature Blog Network\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/><i>Camera note: the birds were taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The landscapes were shot with the EF 17-40mm 1:4L USM lens, with a polarizer for the &#39;South Downs&#39; images.<\/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":[1003,16],"tags":[33,1136,1153],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landscape-2","category-snow","tag-birds","tag-snow","tag-sussex","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","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=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}