{"id":424,"date":"2007-03-30T22:03:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T21:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/424"},"modified":"2013-11-27T00:10:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T00:10:21","slug":"a-bright-moment-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/a-bright-moment-in\/","title":{"rendered":"A bright moment in a grey wet day"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It was a dismal, grey, damp day today. Constant drizzle and no chance of any photos at lunchtime. I was at my computer at work during the afternoon, and noticed some birdsong outside my window. Several bluetits were flitting around in the tree outside, brightening the gloom. Could I get any shots? Tricky. The part of the window that opens touches the tree canopy, so doesn&#39;t really open more than a couple of inches. And opening it would scare them away. Plus there&#39;s one of those sun filters on the glass which darkens everything even further. But the little beauties were inches away! <\/p>\n<p>I gave in, turned off the internal lights to reduce reflection, got out the camera, cranked up to ISO 800 and fired away. Here&#39;s the results after a little software tweaking. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bluetit_3003077240.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bluetit_3003077240.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Through the filtered glass<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bluetit_3003077238.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bluetit_3003077238.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">Again through the glass<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bluetit_3003077244.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img SRC=\"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/bluetit_3003077244.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><span class=\"aligncenter\">I finally opened up a crack in the window<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[980],"tags":[33,116],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-bluetit","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}