{"id":1917,"date":"2013-05-23T10:27:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T09:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2013-05-23T10:27:47","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T09:27:47","slug":"waiting-for-the-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/northumberland\/waiting-for-the-light","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for the light"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an ideal world, a bespoke photography day with a client involves arriving at our chosen location, discussing techniques that will be required to achieve the desired image and then waiting for the perfect light to fall on the subject…<\/p>\n

I arrived at Church Point on Sunday afternoon to collect Gareth for his bespoke photography trip.\u00a0 My task was to deliver locations that would provide the opportunities for landscape or wildlife photography, and give advice on technique when needed.\u00a0 In advance I’d planned a route through Druridge Bay<\/a>, southeast Northumberland and the Northumberland coast that would provide a series of landscape opportunities.\u00a0 So, discovering that visibility on the coast was poor was a bit of a spanner in the works \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 My backup plan was some nice close, obliging wildlife…swifts, swallows <\/strong><\/em>and <\/strong>martins<\/strong><\/em> <\/strong>were the ideal subject for the afternoon.\u00a0 Difficult enough to test the abilities of most photographers, but usually obligingly consistent in their feeding, bathing and drinking behaviour.<\/p>\n

As Gareth honed his ‘birds in flight’ skills we had an unexpected bonus in the shape of four Otters<\/strong><\/em>!\u00a0 A writhing sinuous mass of muscle and menace, they twisted and turned in the water before climbing onto the bank and one of them munched contentedly on the fruits of it’s labour – a large Eel<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Displaying Redshank<\/strong><\/em>, typically unobliging Little Grebes<\/strong><\/em> and a ghostly Barn Owl<\/strong><\/em> drifting across a reedbed as dusk approached all added to the wildlife experience as Gareth shot lots of images of Swallows<\/strong> <\/em>as they twisted, turned and stalled just a few feet away from us.\u00a0 I managed a few shots myself, as we compared the effect of different camera settings, focal lengths etc.<\/p>\n

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