{"id":2127,"date":"2011-12-02T23:12:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T23:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2127"},"modified":"2013-11-07T18:46:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T18:46:41","slug":"much-better-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/much-better-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Much Better Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The early part of the day was beautiful. Clear skies, and the sun rising over the South Downs. It's the best part of the day at this time of year, and the cormorant was around giving me a chance to improve substantially on yesterday's efforts.
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That branch he's on came crashing down as he took off. I missed the shot, but that's the second time in a few days it's happened. The cormorant did several circuits of the pond providing more opportunities to play with light. <\/p>\n

Into the sun…
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Against an impossibly dark backdrop, but with the sun just catching the detail…
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And finally a silhouette.
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By lunchtime the good light was gone, as was the cormorant. The moorhens are getting frisky though, and the pond was littered with mini duels as they sort out their pecking order.
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The final shot for today isn't much more than a snapshot, but the little grouping amused me. I think these are what are known as Indian Runners, though underneath all the strange posture they are essentially mallards. The pale ones are regulars at the pond, but I'd not seen the black one previously (though he could well have been lurking unnoticed). Anyway, they looked silly enough to photograph.
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Camera note: all shots taken with the Canon 7D and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.<\/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":[989],"tags":[449,1160,816,1172],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-cormorant","tag-duck","tag-indian-runner","tag-moorhen","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