{"id":23139,"date":"2015-03-26T23:40:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T23:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/?p=23139"},"modified":"2015-03-26T23:40:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T23:40:22","slug":"the-tricky-and-the-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/the-tricky-and-the-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tricky and the Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know I have a tendency to photograph the same thing again and again so I’m always on the lookout for slightly different scenarios such as the rat looking at the rubbish bin<\/a> posted a couple of days ago. So I was keen to get some photos yesterday when one of the local rats scrambled up a pond-side tree. It was a really good climb, and it went quite high. Trees though have branches and branches get in the way. Finding a point to focus on wasn’t easy.<\/p>\n

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Rat up a tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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For all the messiness, I quite like the shots, especially the first one.<\/p>\n

Today offered a near miss. I was hanging around in the same spot and a baby rat emerged from the rubbish bin and was scrambling crazily to get back to the tree. It’s exactly the kind of shot I want, and I had a clear view… from the wrong side. This is the best I could do.<\/p>\n

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Baby rat climbing out of a rubbish bin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s not always that tricky. Another of the bay rats was much more cooperative, and posed nicely for the camera.<\/p>\n

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Baby rat posing in the undergrowth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\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":"

I know I have a tendency to photograph the same thing again and again so I’m always on the lookout for slightly different scenarios such as the rat looking at the rubbish bin posted a couple of days ago. So I was keen to get some photos yesterday when one of the local rats scrambled […]<\/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":[781],"tags":[1183],"class_list":["post-23139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rats","tag-rat","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