{"id":1824,"date":"2011-01-18T23:01:43","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T23:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1824"},"modified":"2013-11-09T21:16:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T21:16:55","slug":"london-and-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/london-and-brighton\/","title":{"rendered":"London and Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

There really isn't much of a theme to tonight's blog, just a series of shots taken at lunchtime in London, and then late afternoon in Brighton. It was sunny in both locations. In London the herons were busy with their nests.
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And now the required cautionary note about photographing nesting birds. All the above were taken from a good distance away. When photographing nesting birds keep in mind that you should on no account do anything that will disturb them, and in some cases even photographing the nest site may be illegal given the high likelihood of disturbance and the fragile status of the particular species (those on what is known as Schedule One). Grey herons aren't on the prohibited list details of which are here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The swans weren't nest-building, but were at their most elegant.
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Late afternoon I was in Brighton (Hove, actually) and managed to get a shot of a modest flock of starlings sweeping over the derelict West Pier. And this really is a small flock. At their peak, the flocks can number thousands of birds.
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Of course, being a sunny day and late in the afternoon and down on the coast there is always another shot to be had. But before I add the ubiquitous photograph of a sunset over the sea, it was that other celestial orb that captured my imagination. That's not quite a full moon (it's waxing gibbous, to get technical), but it's very close.
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And now for the sunset…
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 40D and EF 200mm f\/2.8L II USM.<\/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":[1044,1003,989],"tags":[1179,38,34,42,339],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coastal","category-landscape-2","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-heron","tag-moon","tag-starling","tag-sun","tag-swan","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