Great Blue Heron + Bonus beaver

[leighthal]

I was taking pictures today of this heron. I was in the process of packing up and calling it a day when out popped a beaver. With no time to select settings I threw the half folded tripod into the ditch, grabbed the camera and hoped for the best. Settings were too shallow to get the beaver in focus and the 2 second timer was being cursed. It seems beavers can travel quite far in 2 seconds
In the end...... it's a shot that almost was.

apeture 6.3 400mm 1/350s iso 100
original is here.... lots of pp due to ill placed foliage...ahem.... ill placed photographer

 

[Art Photographers]

Awesome!!! It fills the frame perfectly... A portfolio shot for sure!!

 

[Antarctican]

Sure love the image of the heron! And the swimming beaver adds that little extra bit of interest to the shot. Good reaction time on your part.

 

[Phranquey]

Very cool shot.......:thumbup:

Not to rain on your parade, or thread title, but beaver are primarily nocturnal, and considerably bulkier........I believe what you have is a muskrat.

 

[leighthal]

Very cool shot.......:thumbup:

Not to rain on your parade, or thread title, but beaver are primarily nocturnal, and considerably bulkier........I believe what you have is a muskrat.

Thank you for the correct identification. As I was reading it I had a DOH moment as you can see a tail. When beavers swim you can't see their tails.

Thanks all for your comments.

 

[Photoadder]

Very good!