Ground Squirrel

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi folks ...
just returned from a trip to Vienna, southern Germany and France , with different target species to photograph
The Squirrels are one of them , same location as previous year .... one month earlier ... so no real youngsters emerged from the burrows .
Nonetheless 3 days of fun shooting with these guys , will post all sorts of stuff .... albeit many of them are very similar

Canon EOS 1Dx III
EF 200 - 400 IS L at 560 mm
HH

F 6,3 ; Iso 10.000 ; 1/2500 sec on a heavy overcast late afternoon

Processed with Capture One and PSCC 2023 ; slight crop from LHS and top for a better comp

Thanks for watching and commenting to my last postings

Cheers Andreas

[Steve Kaluski]

These are sweet characters Andreas and as per my comment last time, quite commercial too. Hopefully you have more doing something different as I've seen so many like this on Social media almost identical to this.

Appreciate something different as I know Gabriela will be hungry to post some of her stuff when she gets back.

TFS
Steve

[Andreas Liedmann]

Hi Steve ... thanks for your comment

As i am not active on social media , i do not see that i just created commercial shots ... even if they might have been shot a million times by others and i do not see anything negative with this . I do not care about that , as i do shoot it mainly for me and the fun that comes along with it !!!!
I do post it here , my only way to the public .
Do not know what you mean by this , shooting hopefully something different .... ... so i think i will keep posting my commercial stuff regardless if been posted on the crappy social media platforms .

I am very excited about what Gabriela comes back with ... must be extraordinary different and creative if i am taking your words right .

BTW i do like the image that i posted , but think i went a bit " too electric " with the grass and it could go a tad darker .... that said with hindsight .

Cheers Andreas

[Steve Kaluski]

BTW i do like the image that i posted , but think i went a bit " too electric " with the grass and it could go a tad darker .... that said with hindsight .

I didn't want to say as often you say you like it.

I wouldn't crop on the LHS as presented its tight IMHO.

[Andreas Liedmann]

If you say it ... it does not hurt , i might have just a different view , but sometimes change it to the viewers opinion

[Morkel Erasmus]

Hello Andreas - I like how this one just pops from the green surrounds.
Good detail and low angle, and a cute "moment" makes it worthwhile to me.
Maybe needs a little more DOF (f8?) so the sharpness falloff from front to back on the rodent is not as clear. Hindsight, I know... ;)

[Andreas Liedmann]

Thanks Morkel ... your comment is much appreciated as well .
I would agree that a bit more DOF would have not hurt the image

Cheers Andreas

[Andreas Liedmann]

I didn't want to say as often you say you like it.

I wouldn't crop on the LHS as presented its tight IMHO.

Now I do find it even worse ... with the electrification

[Jonathan Ashton]

The marmot looks good, as you indicated I too have slight reservation over the greens.
I have also come back from the Pyrenees - Navarra in Spain, I saw a couple of marmots but didn't get to photograph them. I did manage Lammergeier and Wildcat however and Dupont's lark.

[Andreas Liedmann]

Thanks Jon ... i would have expected your opinion about the greens and i do agree .
This is not a marmot ....
Cool that you have traveled abroad , hope to see some stuff of wildcat and Lammergeier !!!

Cheers andreas

[Jonathan Ashton]

Thanks Jon ... i would have expected your opinion about the greens and i do agree .
This is not a marmot ....
Cool that you have traveled abroad , hope to see some stuff of wildcat and Lammergeier !!!

Cheers andreas

My mistake I assumed ground squirrel and marmot were the same species.
Regret the Wildcat and Lammergeier are not of good enough quality to post, the former taken through vehicle window and it was raining, and the latter simply too small in the frame.