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The watcher

            Photograph taken at an altitude of Six metres, at 10:29am on Tuesday June 4th 2019, on a an overcast and drizzle filled morning off Birdcage Walk and Horse Guards Road in the grounds of St James's Park. Situated in the City Of Westminster, the Park spans twenty three Hectares and is the oldest of the Royal Parks of London, with a variety of visiting and nesting birds that include Ducks, Canada Geese and Pelicans.
Here we see one of a pair of resident Ardea Cinerea (Grey Heron) that currently has one yearling that is safe and well within St James's Park. These birds are native to Europe and Asia as well as parts of Africa, with a wingspan up to Two metres and a mass of up to 2.1kgs.

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Nikon D850 Focal length 300mm    Shutter speed 1/100s   Aperture f/5.6   iso64  RAW (14 bit uncompressed) Image size L 6880 x 4584 FX). Hand held with Nikkor VR Vibration (Normal) selected .  Colour space Adobe RGB. Nikon Back button focusing enabled.  Focus mode AF-C focus 51 point with 3-D tracking. AF Area mode single. Exposure mode - Manual  exposure. Matrix metering. ISO Sensitivity: Auto. Auto 1 white balance. Nikon Distortion control on. Vignette control Normal. Active D-lighting on Automatic. High ISO Noise Reduction: On. Picture control: Auto with Sharpening A+1.00.

Nikkor AF-P 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6E. Hoya UHC 67mm UV(C) filter. Nikon EN-EL15a battery. Matin quick release neckstrap. My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag.  Nikon GP-1 GPS module. 

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LATITUDE: N 51d 30m 9.10s
LONGITUDE: W  0d 8m 7.70s
ALTITUDE: 6.0m

RAW (TIFF) FILE: 90.40MB  NEF: 63.6MB
PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 29.60MB

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Nikon D850 Firmware versions C 1.10 (9/05/2019)  LD Distortion Data 2.017 (20/3/18) LF 1.00 

HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit  processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB Data storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX-1 64bit (Version 1.2.11 15/03/2018). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit (Version 1.4.7 15/03/2018). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 1.3.2 15/03/2018). Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / London / Victoria (show map)

Taken on: June 4, 2019

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Camera: Nikon D850, f/5.6, 1/100 sec, 300mm (=360mm), ISO 64 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D850
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.01 sec (1/100)
Focal Length:	300mm (35mm equivalent: 360mm)
ISO:	64
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 8.0 Windows
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