I'm Soooooo cute

adrienne · Sep 6, 2001

This is one of several squirrels that visits my yard to eat birdseed. He especially likes the unshelled peanuts, which he buries in our vegetable garden -- hope he remembers to dig them out later

adrienne

I have a few more squirrel pix at

http://home.att.net/~naturaleye/Squirrels.html

Mike Diamond · Sep 6, 2001

adrienne said:
This is one of several squirrels that visits my yard to eat
birdseed. He especially likes the unshelled peanuts, which he
buries in our vegetable garden -- hope he remembers to dig them out
later

adrienne

Beautiful picture;
What camera, settings and time of day?
MDiamond

Richard Thrift · Sep 6, 2001

wow what a great shot! I know how easily spooked squirrels are so you done really well to catch him/her (not sure which) so great. Do dof, great focus, great exposure...the only quibble is only one eye in the shot, but thats a minor point and my opinion only...if only i could do wildlife shots like this...

Cheers
Richard

adrienne · Sep 6, 2001

Thanks for your comment, Mike.

Details:

Canon D30
Canon 75-300 lens, zoomed to 300
f/9.5
1/125
Av mode
About 2 p.m. I caught him just after he stepped into a small patch of sunlight.

If you want more details, I can give you all the EXIF data

Adrienne

Mike Diamond said:
Beautiful picture;
What camera, settings and time of day?
MDiamond

ron1 · Sep 6, 2001

Nice Gallery,
And they are a lot of fun to watch.
Ron

Gary W. · Sep 6, 2001

Gary wrote:

I had two squirrels around me...this one is so cute....great expression and wonderful colors..great capture

adrienne said:
This is one of several squirrels that visits my yard to eat
birdseed. He especially likes the unshelled peanuts, which he
buries in our vegetable garden -- hope he remembers to dig them out
later

adrienne

I have a few more squirrel pix at

http://home.att.net/~naturaleye/Squirrels.html

adrienne · Sep 6, 2001

Richard,

Thank you so much for your comment. I've seen your very good work, and I've no doubt that you are capable of better wildlife shots than mine. You DO have to spend a lot of time sitting very still, though. And it helps to bribe the squirrels with food

About the "missing" eye. I understand your point. I have taken some shots where the squirrel was looking right at me, and I like the "communication" implied. Here, though, I caught the animal being more "natural," not interacting with a human. Just a different way to view him. It probably WOULD have been better if I had caught him with his head turned slightly more toward me so I could see the other eye, though. Thanks for the feedback.

adrienne

Richard said:
wow what a great shot! I know how easily spooked squirrels are so
you done really well to catch him/her (not sure which) so great. Do
dof, great focus, great exposure...the only quibble is only one eye
in the shot, but thats a minor point and my opinion only...if only
i could do wildlife shots like this...

Cheers
Richard

Curt A · Sep 6, 2001

Hi Adrienne,

This is a terrific photo! Looks like a studio portrait of the little guy. I love the composition and the beautiul lighting. The sharpness is amazing. I think this is the best squirrel photo that I have seen posted here. Thanks for sharing this one w/us. Curt A.

adrienne said:
This is one of several squirrels that visits my yard to eat
birdseed. He especially likes the unshelled peanuts, which he
buries in our vegetable garden -- hope he remembers to dig them out
later

adrienne

I have a few more squirrel pix at

http://home.att.net/~naturaleye/Squirrels.html

adrienne · Sep 6, 2001

Thanks, Ron,

Thank you. Yes, I DO have a lot of fun watching them This spring one of the females brought her youngster to feeder to show her how to get "easy" food. She was much more cautious then, and I never managed to get a good shot. I hadn't had as much experience doing wildlife shots then, either.

adrienne

Ron said:
Nice Gallery,
And they are a lot of fun to watch.
Ron

adrienne · Sep 6, 2001

Thanks, Gary. I'm happy to be able to watch them. The other day I managed to get one to take a peanut from my hand. He stayed just out of reach up in a tree, and stretched out juuuuust enough to reach the peanut.

adrienne

Gary W. said:
adrienne said:

This is one of several squirrels that visits my yard to eat
birdseed. He especially likes the unshelled peanuts, which he
buries in our vegetable garden -- hope he remembers to dig them out
later

adrienne

I have a few more squirrel pix at

http://home.att.net/~naturaleye/Squirrels.html

Click to expand...

Charles Chien · Sep 6, 2001

Very well done! I especially like the color of his fur under the sun - very beautiful!

adrienne said:
This is one of several squirrels that visits my yard to eat
birdseed. He especially likes the unshelled peanuts, which he
buries in our vegetable garden -- hope he remembers to dig them out
later

adrienne

I have a few more squirrel pix at

http://home.att.net/~naturaleye/Squirrels.html

adrienne · Sep 6, 2001

Wow, Curt, your comments blow me away! I've spent a lot of time taking squirrel photos this year. There was quite a learning curve -- the first ones were terrible :-(
Thanks!

adrienne

Curt A. said:
adrienne said:

This is one of several squirrels that visits my yard to eat
birdseed. He especially likes the unshelled peanuts, which he
buries in our vegetable garden -- hope he remembers to dig them out
later

adrienne

I have a few more squirrel pix at

http://home.att.net/~naturaleye/Squirrels.html

Click to expand...

hugh · Sep 6, 2001

adrienne said:
This is one of several squirrels that visits my yard to eat
birdseed. He especially likes the unshelled peanuts, which he
buries in our vegetable garden -- hope he remembers to dig them out
later

The first ones might have been bad, but this one, and the others on your web site certainly are not. Very nice work.

hs

Pondria · Sep 6, 2001

Oh, it is ! Superb.

adrienne said:
This is one of several squirrels that visits my yard to eat
birdseed. He especially likes the unshelled peanuts, which he
buries in our vegetable garden -- hope he remembers to dig them out
later

thierry29298 · Sep 6, 2001

thank you adrienne;Now my own pic of squirrel don't have anymore value to me.....until the day I will take a picture like this one.!!
Beautiful shot this is the only thing I can say.a pleasure to see.

thierry

adrienne · Sep 6, 2001

Charles,

Thanks for your comments on my squirrel photo. He's a lovely speciman, and he was fun to photograph. It was a stroke of luck that he stopped in a splash of sun.

adrienne

Charles Chien said:
adrienne said:

This is one of several squirrels that visits my yard to eat
birdseed. He especially likes the unshelled peanuts, which he
buries in our vegetable garden -- hope he remembers to dig them out
later

adrienne

I have a few more squirrel pix at

http://home.att.net/~naturaleye/Squirrels.html

Click to expand...

adrienne · Sep 6, 2001

Hugh,

Thanks for the very kind words. Practice has certainly improved my shots, but I'm not ready to quit trying to improve quite yet

adrienne

Hugh said:
The first ones might have been bad, but this one, and the others on
your web site certainly are not. Very nice work.

hs

evercloud · Sep 6, 2001

image and well composed... I envy your D30.

adrienne said:
This is one of several squirrels that visits my yard to eat
birdseed. He especially likes the unshelled peanuts, which he
buries in our vegetable garden -- hope he remembers to dig them out
later

adrienne

adrienne · Sep 6, 2001

Thanks, Pondria. I appreciate the comment. Most of the credit goes to the squirrel, though, for being so cute. adrienne

Pondria said:
Oh, it is ! Superb.

adrienne · Sep 6, 2001

Thierry,

Good joke. No WAY do I believe your own squirrel pix don't have value to you

I tried to find your squirrel pix in this forum, but I couldn't find them. Can you tell me where they are posted?

Anyway, thanks for your enthusiastic comments. I'm really glad you liked my photo.

adrienne

thierry said:
thank you adrienne;Now my own pic of squirrel don't have anymore
value to me.....until the day I will take a picture like this one.!!
Beautiful shot this is the only thing I can say.a pleasure to see.

thierry

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