{"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<p><!--more-->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&#39;s were all taken close my office (which resembled an oven).<\/p>\n<p>First are a couple of shots of an emperor dragonfly. She was behaving perfectly for once, and happily posed in an ornamental pond. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/emperor_dragonfly_0107090789.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/emperor_dragonfly_0107090803.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>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&#39;s still young enough not to be startled by the camera.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/pwt_0107090848.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/pwt_0107090879.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/pwt_0107090889.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>I was going to leave it at that, but I&#39;ve persisted with taking &#39;doubles&#39; 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 &#8211; if you can be bothered &#8211; 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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/combined_foxglove0107090911_10_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/combined_foxglove0107090911_10_b.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"202\" alt=\"3d image\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Cick to enlarge<\/span><\/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: 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","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=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}