Heron

Another local walk around the ponds ‘in my own backyard’ Hookstone Woods, part of what was the ancient Forest of Knaresborough.

I’ve seen this heron before on a fir tree overhanging the pond, and it looks a good age, old enough perhaps to have learned to take time

Thanks to David for his request for metadata, it’s an opportunity to learn. I don’t have the technical language, but am now presuming that this is the camera information that -for me - has occasionally come up magically when a blip is posted, so I have done nothing to this photo other than download it on to my iPhone 7 in the hope that the metadata will appear. I usually tidy up my pictures using the phones edit option and sometimes I use a photo editor as well and I’m wondering if this blocks the metadata - I’d be interested to know. I have also started to experiment with something other than auto - I’m hoping that will be expansive, I’m expecting it to be slow.

I think I’m gradually getting a sense of what I want from and can offer to blip - I love, unsurprisingly, the beautiful images, my own and others, but what gets me most is a sense of the poetic and the meaningful in the synthesis of the image and word - I’d like to develop that - and I’m finding some truly great mentors on here, thank you

Well, that feels like more than enough - the grey matter went into overdrive!

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Post blip addition - looks like I have metadata!