{"id":22668,"date":"2015-01-30T23:51:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T23:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=22668"},"modified":"2015-02-03T18:38:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T18:38:39","slug":"animals-being-active","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/animals-being-active\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals Being Active"},"content":{"rendered":"

No great theme today, and indeed I’ll start with a photo taken on Thursday at Falmer Pond. A number of people were out feeding the gulls (a mix of herring gulls and black-headed gulls), and the inevitable feeding frenzy followed. I decided to go for motion blur shots this time, despite the quite reasonable light. They were taken at between 1\/13 and 1\/15s at f\/18 (I needed the small aperture to get the shutter speed down).<\/p>\n

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Sticking with motion blur, I photographed this little rat in mid shake. The shutter is around 1\/125 which is fine when they keep still. I like it though. It had just jumped up on to the branch after a quick swim across the corner of the pond.<\/p>\n

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Rat shaking itself dry<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Rat swimming<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The robins (who seem to share the same corner of the pond as the rats) were active again. I caught this little bird stretching its wing.<\/p>\n

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The last trio of photos were a chance sighting of a dog out in a local field. That’s not unusual in itself, but I’ve not previously seen one having this much fun playing with a broom!<\/p>\n

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It seems there was a theme after all. Not planned, but there you go. Sometimes these things just fall into place. <\/p>\n

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II and EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L IS II USM lens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No great theme today, and indeed I’ll start with a photo taken on Thursday at Falmer Pond. A number of people were out feeding the gulls (a mix of herring gulls and black-headed gulls), and the inevitable feeding frenzy followed. I decided to go for motion blur shots this time, despite the quite reasonable light. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980,1112,781,3],"tags":[762,1158,1052,1183,78],"class_list":["post-22668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","category-dog","category-rats","category-wildlife","tag-dog","tag-herring-gull","tag-motion-blur","tag-rat","tag-robin","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