{"id":353,"date":"2009-08-25T09:15:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T09:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2009-08-23T17:33:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T17:33:08","slug":"and-out-of-the-blue-came-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"And out of the blue came a&#8230;&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/tn_salthouse-point-0002.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-354\" title=\"Great crested grebe at Salthouse Point, Gower\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/tn_salthouse-point-0002.jpg\" alt=\"Great crested grebe at Salthouse Point, Gower\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/tn_salthouse-point-0002.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/tn_salthouse-point-0002-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/tn_salthouse-point-0002-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While trying out a few image options, I thought I had got a mark on the lens or dirt in my view finder as a dark shape appeared. When I refocused the lens it came apparent that it was a Great Crested Grebe swimming by in the twilight. This is where digital photography really is a killer technique and the first plus point I noticed; its low light pick up is outstanding. With film I probably wouldn&#8217;t have attempted this image as to get this level of quality in the final result was nearly impossible. Next time I hope the bird comes a bit closer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While trying out a few image options, I thought I had got a mark on the lens or dirt in my view finder as a dark shape appeared. When I&#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\/353"}],"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=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}