Ground Squirrel Missile

[Morkel Erasmus]

Pretty stoked with this one!

Needless to say this was hard getting that one shot where the focus is just right - these buggers are fast! Captured while lying on my stomach on a small dune in the Two Rivers rest camp in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa.

Techs:
Canon 7D with 100-400mm L IS USM @ 190mm
f14 @ 1/50 SS @ ISO-200
Shutter priority

[Rachel Hollander]

Morkel - very neat blur. I like the pano crop.

TFS,
Rachel

[Scott Frye]

Very nice action shot -- good to see the sharp face and blurred tail

[denise ippolito]

Morkel, This is wonderful. Great capture and like you said the focus was just right! I might evict the small streak above the tail if it were mine. Fantastic!!

[Marc Mol]

Nice attempt here Morkel at getting that head sharp, it would not have been easy with all the bobbing around these guys do. Love the colour here also.
TFS

[Morkel Erasmus]

thanks for the comments everyone

Denise - I'll leave things as they are ;)

[Hilary Hann]

Nice, fun image. There appears to be a problem with your signatures and I wonder if anyone else has seen it … I can see all the brackets and font instructions. Seems strange.

[denise ippolito]

Hilary, I did see it and PM'd Morkel. Not sure if he got it.:)

[Ken Watkins]

Morkel,
I like the colour of the sand best, the ground squirrel sets it off nicely:)

I would leave it as it is as well.

[Harshad Barve]

excellent panning image , sharp where it counts
TFS

[Grant Atkinson]

Hi Morkel, really like this shot, everything as noted above, plus I like the way you can see the squirrels feet digging into the sand..
Well done
Grant

[Morkel Erasmus]

thanks for the kind comments, people! glad you like it :D

(signature seems fixed now?)

[Andrew McLachlan]

Nice capture Morkel!

[DanWalters]

Very nice! You get the sense from this image these guys are really fast!

[Robert Amoruso]

Like it a lot. The color of the sand is perfect and getting the head sharp means you were panning at the same rate the squirrel was running.

[Austin Thomas]

Missed this one earlier Morkel.

Cracker. You should be very pleased.

Cheers

Austin

[Morkel Erasmus]

thanks so much gents!!