{"id":1867,"date":"2013-04-04T12:47:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T11:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1867"},"modified":"2013-04-04T12:47:28","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T11:47:28","slug":"early-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/early-rise","title":{"rendered":"Early rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 03:30 and the alarm clock starts ringing.\u00a0 After eight long days out of the office, things were going to be topped off nicely with an early start for our &#8216;Dawn on the Coast&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/tours.php?id=4\" target=\"_blank\">Beginners Photography<\/a> session.\u00a0 I arrived just ahead of Dave, and met up with Steve who had arrived early.\u00a0 In the shadow of <strong>Bamburgh Castle<\/strong>, with the North Sea washing close to our feet, we worked our way through the holy trinity of photography (shutter speed, aperture and ISO) and various compositional techniques as the approaching dawn illuminated the landscape around us.\u00a0 Snow, driven by a strong northerly breeze, passed by almost horizontally and the broken cloud to the east produced intermittently good lighting conditions.\u00a0 <em><strong>Red-breasted Mergansers<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Fulmars<\/strong> <\/em>flew by, <em><strong>Common Scoters<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>Eider<\/strong> <\/em>were riding on the swell, <em><strong>Purple<\/strong><strong> Sandpipers<\/strong><strong><\/strong> <\/em>crept around the base of the rocks and we finished our session as less amenable weather approached from the east.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday 03:30 and the alarm clock starts ringing.\u00a0 After eight long days out of the office, things were going to be topped off nicely with an early start for our &#8216;Dawn on the Coast&#8217; Beginners Photography session.\u00a0 I arrived just ahead of Dave, and met up with Steve who had arrived early.\u00a0 In the shadow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,105,5,16],"tags":[67,149,122,312,176,188],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bamburgh-castle","category-north-sea","category-northumberland","category-photography","tag-common-scoter","tag-eider","tag-fulmar","tag-photography-tuition","tag-purple-sandpiper","tag-red-breasted-merganser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}