GRAY SQUIRREL, EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, APRIL 12, 2009
Pentax *ist DS
Sigma APO 135-400 at 400mm
1/125 sec. f9.5
ISO 400
Going through the raw photos of the last week's backyard expedition, I found a shot that, cropped tightly, seems to make a fair formal head-and-shoulders portrait of Sciurus carolensis. For some reason every closeup I've taken shows the squirrel with his mouth full.
3 comments:
Wow! What an awesome photo and cute subject! The detail blows me away.
Lovely shot. I think one reason the squirrels always have their mouths full -- or with food in hand -- in photos is that that's when they have stopped to eat.
We often catch them about to eat or in mid-bite. Most other times they are looking for food, scampering up trees, chasing each other, or perhaps tucked away asleep somewhere out of sight.
The truth is that I bribe the squirrels with sunflower seed to get them to hold still and pose on their haunches.
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