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Fraser, my brother-in-law has been commenting recently about pictures with the foreground in focus and the rest blurry.\u00a0 I have agreed with him that we will post a few pictures in that style on Facebook.\u00a0\u00a0 This took me back to a project I did last year to take a photograph in that style for Practical Photography Magazine.\u00a0 I tried various locations and in the end submitted this shot of a model fishing boat on a Peterhead beach.<\/p>\n

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I have several other pictures in this style in stock but yesterday I decided to go out and deliberately take another one on my regular walk with the dogs.\u00a0\u00a0 When the Hatton field is too wet and muddy for little dogs with short logs and a low slung undercarriage I will often walk up the little road to Auchlethen farm.\u00a0 Yesterday’s pictures were taken on the same road.<\/p>\n

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The Last Post<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is amazing how often you can walk past something and not really register it.\u00a0\u00a0 There are a couple of big fence posts driven into the verge.\u00a0 Clearly this had been the line of a fence at some time but now they are connected to nothing.\u00a0 I have walked past them countless times and not really noticed them.\u00a0\u00a0 Today I focussed on one, with its remnants of barbed wire, and the road leading back down to Hatton, blurry in the background.\u00a0\u00a0 The wood on the right of the picture is also the hiding place for the roe deer which I will often see here.\u00a0\u00a0 I have called the picture, The Last Post<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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The last post from the different angle. (Taken a few weeks ago)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fraser, my brother-in-law has been commenting recently about pictures with the foreground in focus and the rest blurry.\u00a0 I have agreed with him that we will post a few pictures in that style on Facebook.\u00a0\u00a0 This took me back to a project I did last year to take a photograph in that style for Practical…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}