{"id":731,"date":"2010-10-07T10:26:27","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T10:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/?p=731"},"modified":"2010-10-07T10:26:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T10:26:27","slug":"the-colours-of-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/photography\/the-colours-of-autumn","title":{"rendered":"The colours of autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sun is shining and the temperature is just about perfect.\u00a0 <strong><em>Robins<\/em><\/strong> seem to be in every bush, the high-pitched\u00a0calls\u00a0from a group of\u00a0<strong><em>Goldcrests<\/em><\/strong> are a reminder that we&#8217;re well into the autumn and the flight calls of <strong><em>Skylarks<\/em><\/strong> can be heard high overhead.\u00a0 The scent of windfall apples permeates the air around the patio, the\u00a0final few sloes are just ripening and there, sitting in the dappled shade beneath the apple tree, is a\u00a0long-predicted garden visitor.\u00a0 I move away, careful not to disturb it.\u00a0 In the house, I swap the 500mm lens on my camera for a much more sensible 105mm macro.\u00a0 Back outside and it&#8217;s gone \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 A slow, systematic search through the fallen leaves and fruit and there it is, sunning itself.\u00a0 Steadily stalking, I get a few images with it resting on a leaf.\u00a0 Then it drops to the ground and starts feeding and, although not a classical portrait, I get <em>the<\/em> shot that I was after.\u00a0 Dappled sunlight, autumnal colours&#8230;and an entertaining diversion from domestic duties \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_732\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-732\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC_4443web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-732\" title=\"Speckled Wood [Pararge aegeria], Scotland Gate, Northumberland 07\/10\/2010 (c)Martin Kitching\/Northern Experience Images\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC_4443web.jpg\" alt=\"Butterflies, photography, macro photography tuition\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC_4443web.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC_4443web-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speckled Wood<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sun is shining and the temperature is just about perfect.\u00a0 Robins seem to be in every bush, the high-pitched\u00a0calls\u00a0from a group of\u00a0Goldcrests are a reminder that we&#8217;re well into the autumn and the flight calls of Skylarks can be heard high overhead.\u00a0 The scent of windfall apples permeates the air around the patio, the\u00a0final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[135,116,191,402],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-goldcrest","tag-robin","tag-skylark","tag-speckled-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","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=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":733,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernexperiencewildlifetours.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}