Prairie Dog in trouble

[Jared Gricoskie]

Living in Boulder, CO offers plenty of open space trails, and there are some prairie dog towns right long very busy trails so I could get in close and see what life is like in the dog town. I got a few nice shots of behaviors I wanted, but for the first hour the light was very harsh. This shot isn't what I call technically perfect but the expression and body language makes it very interesting to me. Reminds me of a little rascals moment, but in reality this little lady was just stuffing her face. Tell me what you think.

D300 500 f4 @ f7.1 w 1.4 TC + 25mm extension, iso 200, EV -.3, tripod, CS3, s/h, curves, noisa ninja, cropped about 25% from the right, and 10% from the top.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Jared,
The pose is nice. I like the expression. Unfortunately you had some harsh light to deal with. I like the inclusion of the shadow here.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Pose and details look good, fill flash might have helped with the light. I would blur the BG more.

[Ed Cordes]

Agree with the above suggestions. To me the expression looks as if she is trying not to laugh at the photographer. LOL ;)

[Alfred Forns]

Agree with Ed ... she is laughing :) Did well with the harsh light and made the best possible image from your location !! I like it a lot !!!

[Fabs Forns]

Expression is priceless, it seems like she said something she regretted :)

[Robert Amoruso]

Great expression as mentioned.

Fill flash would have reduced the contrast for you here Jared.

[Steve Canuel]

Great pose. Is this from this year? Fur seems to be in pretty good shape for so early in the year.

[Jared Gricoskie]

Steve,

Took this this past Saturday. The females seemed to have nice coats, and the males were ragged.