{"id":866,"date":"2007-06-13T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T21:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/866"},"modified":"2013-11-24T22:10:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T22:10:52","slug":"dragonfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/dragonfly\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragonfly"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\"><span class='imgleft'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/dragonfly_1306075776.jpg_thumb.jpg' \/><\/span><\/a> <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\"><span class='imgleft'><img alt='' src='https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/dragonfly_1306075796.jpg_thumb.jpg' \/><\/span><\/a> This is the time of year to see dragonflies at their most active. I&#39;m fortunate to have a small dew pond a few hundred yards from where I work, and I&#39;ve been able to spend a few minutes in the sunshine watching their incredible aerial display over the water. <\/p>\n<p>The photos here (and in the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.opera.com\/Words\/albums\/show.dml?id=238214\" target=\"_blank\">Butterflies and Bugs<\/a> album) were taken with a long lens, but I&#39;m tempted to try with the macro if the good weather holds. These were taken on my third or fourth visit to the pond and I&#39;m beginning to understand their flight patterns and identify resting points. The first attempts were generally awful, but I&#39;m learning the art of waiting for them to come to the camera.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the images to enlarge.<\/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":[77],"tags":[1148],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dragonfly","tag-dragonfly","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","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=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}