{"id":2613,"date":"2012-10-10T09:51:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T08:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2012-10-08T22:52:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T21:52:56","slug":"whiteford-nnr-gower-peninsula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/?p=2613","title":{"rendered":"Whiteford NNR, Gower Peninsula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2610\" title=\"Sunset, Whiteford National Nature Reserve, Gower Peninsula\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Whiteford-National-Nature-Reserve20120928_DSC0611.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Whiteford-National-Nature-Reserve20120928_DSC0611.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Whiteford-National-Nature-Reserve20120928_DSC0611-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Whiteford-National-Nature-Reserve20120928_DSC0611-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just a couple of images from a few hours wandering around Whiteford NNR a week or so ago. As with may of our recent days, it was a mixture of sunny spells, cloud and changing light. To counter this I was switching from ideas in black + white to colour depending on the light conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The sunset was a bit of a messy affair, but there were still some interesting colours to photograph. When I started photographing the metal container (looks like an upside down tank turret) on the beach, there was no reflection of the sunset in the water in it. After a few minutes the water started to pick up the colour of the sky and the whole image was lifted and gained more life to it. I didn&#8217;t want too much blur to the water motion as I like a bit of detail in it and with a two stop ND graduated filter to balance out the exposure for the sky and sea, it all came together.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2607\" title=\"Lone tree, Whiteford National Nature Reserve, Gower Peninsula\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Whiteford-National-Nature-Reserve20120928_DSC0401.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Whiteford-National-Nature-Reserve20120928_DSC0401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Whiteford-National-Nature-Reserve20120928_DSC0401-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Whiteford-National-Nature-Reserve20120928_DSC0401-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2609\" title=\"Whiteford Point, Whiteford National Nature Reserve, Gower Peninsula\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Whiteford-National-Nature-Reserve20120928_DSC0497.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Whiteford-National-Nature-Reserve20120928_DSC0497.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Whiteford-National-Nature-Reserve20120928_DSC0497-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Whiteford-National-Nature-Reserve20120928_DSC0497-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Whiteford-National-Nature-Reserve20120928_DSC0497-140x140.jpg 140w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Whiteford-National-Nature-Reserve20120928_DSC0497-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Whiteford-National-Nature-Reserve20120928_DSC0497-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Whiteford-National-Nature-Reserve20120928_DSC0497-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A bit of a postcard image below, but overall the conditions proved challenging and a great test of the new camera I was testing at the time. The over wintering birds hadn&#8217;t arrived yet, so there weren&#8217;t any great numbers to be seen. Hopefully they will arrive soon and allow another reason to return to Whiteford, as if I needed a reason to return anyway!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2608\" title=\"Towards the hide, Whiteford National Nature Reserve, Gower Peninsula\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Whiteford-National-Nature-Reserve20120928_DSC0434.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Whiteford-National-Nature-Reserve20120928_DSC0434.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Whiteford-National-Nature-Reserve20120928_DSC0434-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Whiteford-National-Nature-Reserve20120928_DSC0434-266x400.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a couple of images from a few hours wandering around Whiteford NNR a week or so ago. As with may of our recent days, it was a mixture of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613"}],"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=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}