{"id":1654,"date":"2010-06-18T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1654"},"modified":"2013-11-10T20:40:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-10T20:40:32","slug":"small-winged-creatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/small-winged-creatures\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Winged Creatures"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This week has been slightly crazy, indeed quite batty&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bat_1606105521.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/bat_1606105527.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The bat was flying around the garden for about 10-15 minutes, just after dusk. It&#39;s probably the most difficult subject I&#39;ve tried to photograph. It&#39;s fast moving and erratic, there&#39;s next to no light, and focusing is impossible. Plus it&#39;s small. I ended up setting the camera to manual, estimated a focusing point  and fired off a shot whenever it appeared to be coming into range. The results were somewhat predictable&#8230; a long series of nothing, punctuated by the occasional blur. The two here are by a long way the best shots.<\/p>\n<p>No such difficulty with small flying creatures that love the sunshine. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/broad_bodied_chaser_dragonfly_1606105429.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/broad_bodied_chaser_dragonfly_1606105462.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There are still plenty of these broad bodied chasers about. As ever, the female is easier to catch in flight. <\/p>\n<p>And sometimes you&#39;re just lucky&#8230;<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/damselfly_1706105574.jpg' \/><\/span> <span class=\"aligncenter\">Damselflies<\/span><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 Canon 40D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens, except for the bats which were &#39;taken&#39; with the EF70-300mm 4.5-5.6 DO IS 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":[532,309,77],"tags":[1184,1170,1148],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bat","category-damselfly","category-dragonfly","tag-bat","tag-damselfly","tag-dragonfly","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","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=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}