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Sony Forums Challenges | all galleries >> Challenge 181: humble (hosted by jrdu and Konstantin Yagudin) >> Challenge 181: Exhibition > edit image
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10-JUL-2008 willvan

Be careful.....i'm just a little guy!......by willvan

I happened to have a wide lens on my camera when I ran across this little guy/gal but decided to take a shot anyway. Totally different perspective than if I had a telephoto lens on the camera or had been using a superzoom. Fun and a good learning experience to work with what you have available. Bill

Canon EOS 40D ,Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM
1/500s f/2.8 at 55.0mm iso800 hide exif
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Date/Time10-Jul-2008 09:26:26
MakeCanon
ModelCanon EOS 40D
Flash UsedNo
Focal Length55 mm
Exposure Time1/500 sec
Aperturef/2.8
ISO Equivalent800
Exposure Bias
White Balance
Metering Mode (-1)
JPEG Quality
Exposure Programaperture priority (3)
Focus Distance

other sizes: small medium original auto
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Sony Forums Challenges10-Nov-2008 22:10
I have to tell you, Bill, these little guys have been my nemesis for years. Before we moved from our 130 year-old farmhouse back east, they were getting into attic & basement through the tiniest holes (which they enlarged quickly with their engineer's teeth) leaving behind heaps of spruce cone remains & the odd seeds they hadn't gobbled up. They also commandeered all bird feeders until I learned how to lure them with bird seed into 3 hav-a-hart traps I kept set at all times. I must have caught & transported a couple dozen of these critters (you have to drive them 6+ miles away or they supposedly come right back), so I feel a real kinship with this fellow. ;)

For a while we were free of them out on the Olympic Peninsula, but now one has adopted us, or rather our bird feeder out on the deck, driving our newly-adopted weener dog, who wants to go out & play with him, bananas.

The native Americans supposedly had a legend about red squirrels to the effect (I think) that all species had been transformed by the gods from some heavenly form - except red squirrels who were just too clever & mean & stuck with their original form.

The thing is - they're so danged *cute*! Again, a great capture.
~jp
willvan10-Nov-2008 18:32
Thanks jp, you made my day. John, I didn't think of the stairs as being humble but you're right and I really could have set the scene better in my comments. I am on a trail deep in the woods and was actually thinking more about running into a 300 pound black bear than a tiny squirrel. Many of our trails are impassable without these stairs that are built right into the hillside.
Bill
jrdu 10-Nov-2008 10:59
The stairs are humble too. What a perky little guy!
Sony Forums Challenges09-Nov-2008 22:05
I like this highly original take on the ubiquitous squirrel pic very much. It catches his devilish attitude perfectly & enhances it with the offbeat perspective. In the thumbnail he looks like an insect so it's a real surprise to open the image. :)
~jp