{"id":2086,"date":"2011-10-19T23:10:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T22:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2086"},"modified":"2013-11-07T21:25:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T21:25:57","slug":"back-at-the-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/back-at-the-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Back at the Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

After yesterday's brief hiatus, it was back to the pond this morning. Glorious early sunshine just breaching the clouds and a treat of a pair of herons perched on a tree. A good start to the day, and what's more is that they illustrated perfectly the impact of light on a photo. First up is a juvenile heron, basking in the direct glow of the sun.
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Alongside, but just in the shade rather than the direct sun, the adult was keeping watch. There was plenty of ambient light, but the colour tones are completely different.
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There's of course less shade when they're in flight.
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Some of the other pond regulars were enjoying the fine start to the day, none more than these two ducks.
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The moorhens were showing somewhat more decorum.
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And I just liked this little pied wagtail (when it moved out of the shade, that is).
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Finally a shot from tonight, plagiarized from a photo on Sitting Fox's blog<\/a>, except I only managed to capture three moons (I think Europa is the missing one, eclipsed when this shot was taken). The star of the picture is of course not a star, but the planet Jupiter which is shining bright in the night sky at the moment.
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D EF and 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens. For the Jupiter shot I added a 1.4x teleconverter.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,1],"tags":[1160,1179,790,1172,120],"class_list":["post-2086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-uncategorized","tag-duck","tag-heron","tag-jupiter","tag-moorhen","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