A raccoon peers between leaves while clinging to a tree in Blendon Woods Metro Park near Columbus, Ohio.

The story: I was walking through a very dark patch of woods while looking for birds to photograph when I startled this raccoon
that was beside the trail (it startled me, too, because it ran right under my foot). The raccoon climbed a nearby tree, but seemed
curious about me and my camera. It kept looking around the tree and between the leaves to see what I was doing. After about 10
minutes the raccoon climbed down the tree and walked to within about 10 feet of me, stood on its hind legs, stared at the camera,
then moved into the woods. I'm surprised I was able to get a somewhat sharp image shooting wide open at ISO3200 and
1/50th of a second.