{"id":8171,"date":"2017-08-20T08:24:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T20:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/?p=8171"},"modified":"2017-08-20T08:24:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T20:24:52","slug":"walking-the-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/archives\/8171","title":{"rendered":"Walking the dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8175\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8175\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ForestPuddle-DSCF9432-web.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8175\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ForestPuddle-DSCF9432-web.jpg?resize=800%2C533&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ForestPuddle-DSCF9432-web.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ForestPuddle-DSCF9432-web.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ForestPuddle-DSCF9432-web.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flood of light and water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Being in a new environment when travelling is often quite stimulating to the creative process but being sensitive to the small seasonal changes in a familiar environment can also open up creative opportunities. Walking the dog is a daily exercise and a camera usually goes with for the walk. My recent photo-impressionism workshop homework had me looking at some subjects in a new way and some fresh sunlight after a rainy spell with puddles in the forest gave me a good opportunity for an impressionist forestscape.<\/p>\n<p>I have previously played with vertical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/2012\/09\/pine-forest-blur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">panblurs of tree trunks<\/a> but there are no end of opportunities for this in a forest so this resulted in some new images too. Both of these images were with the Fuji XT1 and 35mm f2 lens.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8176\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8176\" style=\"width: 683px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Pines-DSCF9274-web.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-8176\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Pines-DSCF9274-web.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Pines-DSCF9274-web.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Pines-DSCF9274-web.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Pines-DSCF9274-web.jpg?resize=768%2C1152&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Pines-DSCF9274-web.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pines.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The seasonal changes are especially nice with each bringing its unique combinations of colour and light. You never know what you will find as this next image showed. I had gone out geared up for birds which didn&#8217;t happen while this splash of colour with a bee was too much to pass up. Just goes to show that bird gear can work for close-up work &nbsp;too.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8173\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8173\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bee_DSC3478-web.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8173\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bee_DSC3478-web.jpg?resize=800%2C533&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bee_DSC3478-web.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bee_DSC3478-web.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bee_DSC3478-web.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Early Spring flowers and bee. Nikon D500 with 300mm f4PF lens +1.4x teleconverter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A damp spell will often bring an eruption of fungi. This next image shows a group of tiny fungi that I found next to a track on a dead log. This was very close to home so I headed back with my Fuji extension tube and a small LED light and spent a happy time getting photos and bitten by mosquitoes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8179\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Fungi-DSCF8088-web.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8179\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Fungi-DSCF8088-web.jpg?resize=800%2C533&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Fungi-DSCF8088-web.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Fungi-DSCF8088-web.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Fungi-DSCF8088-web.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spotlit fungi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And always when walking the dog you have a happy canine subject if nothing else shows itself.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8174\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bonnie_DSC0650-web.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8174\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bonnie_DSC0650-web.jpg?resize=800%2C533&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bonnie_DSC0650-web.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bonnie_DSC0650-web.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tonywhitehead.com\/wildlight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Bonnie_DSC0650-web.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy dog. Nikon D500 with 300mm F4PF lens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being in a new environment when travelling is often quite stimulating to the creative process but being sensitive to the small seasonal changes in a familiar environment can also open up creative opportunities. Walking the dog is a daily exercise and a camera usually goes with for the walk. 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