{"id":1426,"date":"2009-07-02T00:07:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T23:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1426"},"modified":"2013-11-13T22:12:27","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T22:12:27","slug":"pretty-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/pretty-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretty Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

After the past couple of posts, a return to slightly more pleasing images of local wildlife. The heat has restricted me to an extent; that, plus work has prevented too many long excursions into the countryside so today's were all taken close my office (which resembled an oven).<\/p>\n

First are a couple of shots of an emperor dragonfly. She was behaving perfectly for once, and happily posed in an ornamental pond.
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And when I was leaving this evening, one of the juvenile pied wagtails was patiently picking blackfly while waiting for the adult to bring more exotic food. It's still young enough not to be startled by the camera.
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I was going to leave it at that, but I've persisted with taking 'doubles' to try to get a decent 3D image, and this one of a foxglove works quite well. I need to work a bit more on composition, but – if you can be bothered – enlarge the image and make yourself focus in front of the image (cross eyed). Holding a pin a few inches in front of your nose can help. This one stays quite stable once you can lock into it.<\/p>\n

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Camera note: all shots taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens, except the foxglove which was 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":[980,77,1],"tags":[551,1148,280,120],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-dragonfly","category-uncategorized","tag-3d","tag-dragonfly","tag-foxglove","tag-pied-wagtail","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