{"id":2160,"date":"2012-01-12T23:01:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T23:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/2160"},"modified":"2013-11-06T23:47:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T23:47:44","slug":"a-duck-at-sunrise-and-other-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-duck-at-sunrise-and-other-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"A Duck at Sunrise and other photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Sunrise is still coinciding with the start of my working day. It's not that I start that early, but our location in the South Downs means that the sun has to climb above the hills before we are blessed with its light. Technically the sun rose at 07:59 today. This shot was taken at 08:10.
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And it was some seven minutes later that the sun had spread its gold across the pond, to the evident delight of this mallard.
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The richness of the early morning light even creates new species, such as this gold-tipped gull \ud83d\ude09
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It's quite a contrast from the middle of the day, when the light provides a blueish tint. That's a buzzard at the top of the first shot.
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With the sun below the horizon, things are of course quite different. But the night has its own treasures, including the constellation Orion who stands high in the night sky during the winter months. Sirius (the dog star) is visible in the bottom left of the frame.
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Camera note: all daytime shots taken with the Canon 7D EF and 400mm f\/5.6L USM lens. Orion was photographed with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM lens with a 10 second exposure.<\/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":[980,1003,813],"tags":[378,179,1160,602,94,1199],"class_list":["post-2160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-landscape-2","category-sunrise","tag-black-headed-gull","tag-buzzard","tag-duck","tag-orion","tag-south-downs","tag-sunrise","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