{"id":1000,"date":"2010-06-16T21:11:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T21:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2010-06-16T21:11:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T21:11:01","slug":"the-banana-1st-launch-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"The Banana &#8211; 1st Launch of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-999\" title=\"Caswell Bay, Swansea, Gower Peninsula\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/RIMG0052.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"586\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Banana is the nickname given to my sit on top kayak which I have finally managed to get out on this year. My plan when buying the kayak was to try and make some images of Gower from the sea, which is a view that we are not so familiar with. I then saw some images of some photographers making images from kayaks and canoes of wildlife. What surprised me was the use of long telephoto lenses in some of the images. I&#8217;m afraid that I haven&#8217;t been as brave as this, but my excuse is that most of their images seem to be taken on lakes with no waves or swell to contend with!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1002\" title=\"Herring Gulls on the rocks at low tide, Caswell Bay, Gower Peninsula\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/RIMG0051.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/RIMG0051-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/RIMG0051-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The beauty of wildlife photography from the kayak is that most subjects allow a much closer approach from the sea. Although I only used my compact camera these gulls were quite tolerant of my approach. Once I have plucked up the courage to try a longer lens with my normal equipment, I hope to get some better quality images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Banana is the nickname given to my sit on top kayak which I have finally managed to get out on this year. My plan when buying the kayak was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}