{"id":2129,"date":"2011-12-05T23:12:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T23:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2129"},"modified":"2013-11-07T18:43:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T18:43:51","slug":"pure-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/pure-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->At this time of year if the mornings are clear there is a perfect golden moment as the sun rises above the hills and illuminates everything before it. The moment lasts about 10-15 minutes and then slowly fades as the angle of light sharpens. This shot illustrates the light perfectly, taken at 8:13 this morning.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/duck_0512114988.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Just five  minutes earlier it was only the airborne creatures that caught the sun as they flew over the pond. <br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cormorant_0512114959.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cormorant_0512114950.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cormorant_0512114956.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cormorant_0512114969.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And by about 8:20 the light had already lost that rich hue, as the sun rose slightly higher. I&#39;m not about to complain. It was cold out there today, and 15 minutes is ample time to be fiddling with camera controls with frozen fingers.<\/p>\n<p>One shot from later in the day&#8230; the sun was still doing it&#39;s best and at this time of year is relatively low in the sky whatever the time of day. This is at 12:45. The light was not bad, but certainly nothing like so good as at the start of the day.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/duck_0512115039.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 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":[813,989],"tags":[449,1160,1199],"class_list":["post-2129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunrise","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-cormorant","tag-duck","tag-sunrise","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129","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=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}