This is the reaction to finding a scent marker that hares seem to leave for each other. i'm very aware of this behaviour,but have not yet worked out quite how all this happens,one can see the marker on the cut rape stem.
A real treat to make images of my hares with late evening light like this,the lie of the land where these hares are means late sun gets to few places . I'd love to be able to have moved left but was scuppered by the sea of foot of so high dead stems left by the combine. A lot of luck here,I think this is a first encounter with this leveret,it was very jumpy,but fotunately there is another much larger kidlet right with me whom seemed to act as security for the younger. I snuck up on the older who was in a deep sleep bad form really but what can I say and got to spend around an hour with these two guys before they moved off just after the sun left. the session turned into a photobombing nightmare as they kept so close together,but it was a fantastic experience all the same such a joy to have that light and two fairly chilled subjects,leastways with time they were chilled.Also incredibly interesting to watch the younger copying the older and mimicing her really a special evening this one.
I met my two kids the week before this,what I thought might be transient ie they would forget about me and grow out of that secure thing we had doesn't seem to have happened. I now have two 3/4 grown kids that if I can find them and get the approach right are so relaxed it's untrue. Blaze especially was so relaxed I was able to leave him take a rest and then go back I spent two whole hours that night with them ,utterly bewildering for me
WB taken off back leg just above bright spot. Processed in dpp4.6. Pic style fine detail gamma darks .59 mid -0.34 shadow plus one highlights -2 colour tone -1 colour sat +1 sight NR above default cloned dust spots yellow sat -2 green sat -1 green hue +1 sharp pushed to 9
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Guys slightly off topic but very relevent. I am in the very unique and somewhat strange position of being able to choose the distance I am from the hares on many occassions. Very briefly if you were making images of a typical (ha ha) sized hare what distance would you choose to be at for FFmore intimate type images at 420mm just a rough in meters or yards will do,no detail required i'm simply curious. I'm using the lens scale to check myself a bit as I feel i'm getting too close at times,obviously they come close at speed sometimes which I can do nothing about,but I feel I can hone my approaches more to benefit my images
Thanks for all the help with my previous images,my apologies for not being able to post more at this time.
take care all
stu