{"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<p><!--more-->After yesterday&#39;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&#39;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.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/heron_juvenile_1910118890.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/heron_1910118885.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There&#39;s of course less shade when they&#39;re in flight.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/0heron_1910118902.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Some of the other pond regulars were enjoying the fine start to the day, none more than these two ducks.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/duck_white_mating_1910118940.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The moorhens were showing somewhat more decorum.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/moorhen_1910119014.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And I just liked this little pied wagtail (when it moved out of the shade, that is).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/pwt_1910119101.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Finally a shot from tonight, plagiarized from a photo on <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/SittingFox\/blog\/2011\/10\/19\/galilean-quartet\" target=\"_blank\">Sitting Fox&#39;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.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/jupiter_1910119171.jpg' \/><\/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 \/><a title=\"site stats\" href=\"http:\/\/statcounter.com\/free-web-stats\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/c.statcounter.com\/7187219\/0\/2c644058\/1\/\" alt=\"site stats\" style=\"border:none;\" \/><\/a><br \/><i>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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}