Holidays started today after a LONG, LONG week of 12 hour days and nights.
It’s one of those rest days… work around the house, drink lots of coffee, run around a bit and catch up on the e-mails type of day.
Yet… as we were getting ready to head out again I looked out past the deck onto the lake and wow… a Muskrat trudging along in front of the house. Just a wee little one… slowly trodding along and stopping to take a break right in front of the house so I could run downstairs to get the camera.
Yep… I had the camera taken apart as I had been “plucking and picking” today, trying to get the gear into the new Pelican 1550 cases (more on that later).
But… I did manage to throw the 70-200 f/4 L IS USM on the Canon 50D as well as the 1.4 Teleconverter as I did not want to get to close to the wild little critter and ran through the snow in the front yard down to the lakeside.
Here’s a few shots with very little editing to bring back the blow-outs caused by me using spot metering to get the detail in the critter (and choosing to blow out the snow a bit).
Check out the rear feet on this thing…
So much for him hanging around for much longer… breaks over and off he/she goes…
And there go the after burners….
So… had to blow out the highlights with the snow a bit to get some detail in the Muskrat but wanted that instead of a darker object with all the bright, white snow. I threw the camera on spot metering, single shot for focus and tried as best possible to stay steady despite my java infested veins (lots of caffine today).
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