{"id":2139,"date":"2011-12-17T00:12:53","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T00:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2139"},"modified":"2013-11-07T18:22:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T18:22:17","slug":"winter-arrives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/winter-arrives\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Arrives"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->After sunshine, wind and rain this week, a new addition to our current weather&#8230; sleet. I&#39;d like to say it was snow, but that suggests nice fluffy flakes drifting gently to the ground. This was driving rain and sleet, arriving early morning just in time for the journey to work. <\/p>\n<p>Inevitably I tried to photograph it; and I think equally inevitable was the poor result. It&#39;s marginally better converted to monochrome.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/sleet_bw_1612116976.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>As for the regulars on the pond, the white goose was the easiest to photograph in what was truly appalling light. These shots were taken at ISO 3200.<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/goose_1612117022.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Two cormorants were out on the water (and now I think of it, I don&#39;t think I even saw a gull).<br \/><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cormorant_1612117004.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span class='imgcenter'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/cormorant_1612117016.jpg' \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>And that was about it for the day. It&#39;s much calmer outside now, but cold  :smurf:   No sign of any foxes yet this evening either.<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":[980,1042],"tags":[449,191,821],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-weather-2","tag-cormorant","tag-goose","tag-sleet","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","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=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}