{"id":1532,"date":"2009-12-13T23:12:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T23:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1532"},"modified":"2013-11-12T20:49:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T20:49:32","slug":"the-gold-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/the-gold-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gold Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

No I haven't been travelling great distances, but even the south of England has its moments, especially as the sun sets over the ocean. These were taken yesterday at Rottingdean. Quite a contrast from a week ago.
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I'd gone in search of fulmars, but they were noticeable only by their absence. The pigeons were in unusually sparkling form though.
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This evening I've been outside watching the Geminids. They were reasonably frequent (one very minute or so, shooting across the eastern sky) but I didn't manage any on camera. I did take a few shots of Orion, always a welcome winter visitor.
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And finally, a night shot of the view from the garden. Again, a long exposure. I'm not sure it's quite so picturesque in reality. \ud83d\ude09
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 40D. The Rottingdean photos were all with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens and UV filter (using the live view feature on the ones towards the sun). I used the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM lens for the night shots, mounted on a Manfrotto 458B Neotec tripod and 488RC2 ball head. The camera was triggered with a Hahnel remote control. Exposures varied, but were generally between 10 and 30 seconds.<\/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":[980,1044,1003,1022,1],"tags":[394,602,103,136],"class_list":["post-1532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-coastal","category-landscape-2","category-sunset-landscape-2","category-uncategorized","tag-night","tag-orion","tag-pigeons","tag-sea","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