Just back from 16 days hiking, walking and a bit of climbing in Switzerland, one part I know very well, the Juagfrau region, but I have never been to Zermatt and the mighty Matterhorn.
This was taken in the Zermatt region whilst on a hike, packing light (mainly wet weather gear) as weather can change very quickly (although the backpack still weighed in at between 15-20kgs) so no chance for any long lenses and so patience and a lot of crawling was required, as one or two of you have seen some images of this!!!. These subjects are not habituated to humans and were incredibly skittish, unlike the ones I think Andreas photographed in Austria and so it was over an hour just to achieve this image, especially with only having the 100-400.
A nice trip as it provided some different photography which I think is healthy, just photographing in one region/aspect, I think, can bring some 'staleness' and so variety improves both your thinking, but also having a change of subject matter makes the old brain think.
Steve
Subject: Alpine Marmots (Marmota marmota) in the sun
Location: Switzerland
Camera: Canon 1DX MKII
Lens: 100-400f/5.6 MKII HH
Exposure: 1/2500s at f/6.3 ISO1250 +0.67EV
Original format: Landscape, almost FF, very slight crop
Processed via: LRCC Classic & PSCC2018







. These subjects are not habituated to humans and were incredibly skittish, unlike the ones I think Andreas photographed in Austria and so it was over an hour just to achieve this image, especially with only having the 100-400.
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, not bad for an old guy crawling about in the rough!


