Thanks. Believe me, there are a LOT of photos that get culled instead of showing them. For instance with this beaver - it was still pretty dark in the morning when dog and I came across him. I started taking photos in the low light, even though I knew that it might be too dark for good results.
Thank goodness for digital. You'd have spent a fortune on film.Thanks. Believe me, there are a LOT of photos that get culled instead of showing them. For instance with this beaver - it was still pretty dark in the morning when dog and I came across him. I started taking photos in the low light, even though I knew that it might be too dark for good results.
As the morning brightened, but still before sunrise, I started messing with different exposure times. Turns out I took a couple of decent photos of ol' Wally and at least a dozen that have been deleted from the camera's SD card and from my computer.
About the time the sun started peeking over the horizon, ol' Wally decided it was time to slip back into the river and swim away. There's a beaver den in the river bank a couple of hundred yards away and he swam in that direction. I see Wally and his family fairly often, but seldom out of the water.
BTW, I just call them all "Wally" - I can't tell one from another. Here's a couple of other photos from the same area earlier this summer:
So the three photos on this thread are the best of probably 40 or more beaver photos I've taken this summer. Digital is so doggone good to work with compared to dealing with 35mm film as I did long ago!
Regards, Guy
Wonder what Maverick though about your other furry friend?Ol' Wally doesn't usually haul himself up onto the bank and pose for me, but he did this morning while I was walking Maverick along the Columbia River:
Regards, Guy
Of Maverick? Yes. He's a rescue dog, his first family gave up on him. When I met him he was wearing a muzzle to keep him from biting anyone. He hated adult men. All he needed was someone with patience. We became good buddies quickly.Wonder what Maverick though about your other furry friend?
Do you have pics of him?
There have been a few rough moments and he's still an over-energized pain in the neck... We walk almost every morning, 3.5 - 10 miles. "Walk" at a rather brisk pace. 
He's become more of a friend who wants to please you.
Guy,Ya, pointing the eagles on or near their nest was hilarious... But why not? It's a big bird and Mav knows I like to stop and point the camera at them and click away. He gets pretty excited when I haul out the camera with the big telephoto lens. Or the shotgun...
I have just the opposite , dig out the shotgun and I have 2 chickens.He gets pretty excited when I haul out the camera with the big telephoto lens. Or the shotgun...
Mav lives to hunt birds. He doesn't understand why we only hunt them a few months every year. So... He hunts them all year, even if I don't shoot them.
