{"id":659,"date":"2021-10-29T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T06:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=659"},"modified":"2021-11-14T23:50:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T23:50:24","slug":"diving-kingfisher-captured-on-amazing-photos-patience-of-photographer-waited-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/diving-kingfisher-captured-on-amazing-photos-patience-of-photographer-waited-two-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Patience and integrity: photographer waited two years to capture amazing photos of kingfisher diving at 25mph"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/blue-streak-kingfisher.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/king-fisher-diving.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>(quote)<br><br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/vince-norfolk-diving-kingfisher-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">These amazing pictures showing the movement of a diving kingfisher are the result of a photographer\u2019s two-year wait for the perfect photo.<\/a><br>\n47-year-old Vince Burton used a slow shutter speed to capture the trail of the bird as it plunged into a pond at up to 25mph (40kmh). The torpedo-like blue kingfisher can be seen hurtling beak-first towards the water as it hunts for fish to feed its young chicks near Norwich in Norfolk.<br><br>\n\nHe said: \u201cI was working with this farmland site for four years. It\u2019s taken me the best part of two years to get this shot.\u201d<br><br>\n\n\u201cNormally one kingfisher holds the territory for a year and then welcomes a partner in from a neighboring territory. \u201cThese images were taken while the kingfishers were raising their brood, which fledged a month later.\u201d<br><br>\n\n(unquote)<br><br>\n\nImage courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/vince-norfolk-diving-kingfisher-photos\/\">SWNS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(quote) These amazing pictures showing the movement of a diving kingfisher are the result of a photographer\u2019s two-year wait for the perfect photo. 47-year-old Vince Burton used a slow shutter speed to capture the trail of the bird as it plunged into a pond at up to 25mph (40kmh). The<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/diving-kingfisher-captured-on-amazing-photos-patience-of-photographer-waited-two-years\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,12],"tags":[44,45,39,52,51,68],"class_list":["entry","author-wcp-art","post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-art-and-poem","category-life-nature-society","category-us-and-world","tag-animals","tag-art","tag-nature","tag-people","tag-photos","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}