{"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

Most of the extreme snow we had yesterday – the heaviest in 20 years – 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

This was taken soon after I arrived at work. The light was perfect.<\/p>\n

\"seagullSeagull in snow<\/span>
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By lunchtime the light was more variable, but we had some blue skies.<\/p>\n

\"SouthSouth Downs snow view<\/span>
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\"SouthSouth Downs snow view<\/span>
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And of course, the birds were at their prettiest with a snowy backdrop.<\/p>\n

\"piedPied wagtail<\/span>
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\"jackdawJackdaw<\/span>
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There are a few more of the birds in my February Birds<\/a> album.<\/p>\n

The sun was setting by the time I left to head back home. I'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't quite do the colours justice.<\/p>\n

\"SouthSussex campus<\/span>
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\"Nature<\/a><\/span>
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 'South Downs' 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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t