{"id":1316,"date":"2009-02-19T00:02:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T00:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1316"},"modified":"2013-11-16T00:08:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T00:08:30","slug":"a-newt-a-frog-and-a-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-newt-a-frog-and-a-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"A newt, a frog and a… fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Now that the pond has sprung into life, the time spent waiting for foxes turns into opportunities to photograph the frogs and newts. I'm not sure whether this will make the foxes more wary, but in previous years my quiet movement around the pond hasn't been a problem. One of the by-products of a lively pond is the choice of lens. From sitting around outside with a 70-300 zoom I'm now padding around with the 105mm macro lens.
<\/span> Newt<\/span><\/p>\n

There were several frogs in the pond, but my favourite for the evening turned out to be this fellow. He was settled in one of the few clear areas of the pond (we have far too much weed in it). The shots were taken with a very small aperture (f\/25 and f\/32) in an attempt to get as much of the body in focus as possible.
<\/span> Frog @ f\/25<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span> Frog @ f\/32<\/span><\/p>\n

While I was taking these shots I kept an eye out for the fox, but nothing doing. It was a little later that we went back outside, this time keeping still and well hidden. The recent visitor has always emerged from the rear of the garden, but tonight while my eyes were fixed firmly ahead a fox slipped in from the front, went up the garden steps and trotted across the lawn. The shot isn't perfect (I'd set the camera focus manually at where I had hoped the fox would appear and this was a reasonably near approximation of the distance), and I managed only a single shot as the fox moved away. It's not the same (very healthy) fox we've seen before. Unfortunately this one is suffering from mange, and doesn't look in a particularly good state \ud83d\ude41 Unless it becomes a regular visitor there isn't a great deal that we can do to help, but we'll keep watching and if there is an opportunity to assist in some way we will.
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Sigma 105mm F2.8 EX DG macro lens.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,86,67,1026],"tags":[1128,1149,114],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-frog","category-mange","category-newt-amphibians-2","tag-fox","tag-frog","tag-newt","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}