I warned you that I would post some more squirrel pictures! The ”problem” is that I’ve taken better squirrel pictures in the past two weeks than I’ve done in the past whatever years. The second problem is that every picture I have from the past weeks is the animal sitting on the same little perch, which only leaves me trying to catch different positions and hoping for different light.

This is my favourite from the previous week’s session. Nice position with curled tail and some blue and gold hues in the background.

[picture deleted] While it’s nice that the squirrel faced the other direction so I get some variation, it’s probably not ideal anyway. I get a feeling that the picture is unbalanced because everything of any weight is on the left side. I tried to remedy the situation by cropping from the left to get rid of the background, which you can see in the next picture.

So now we have some more empty space on the left and the squirrel is sitting on the right side (by a whisker). But I still don’t think it’s well balanced, even if it’s better than the previous picture?

And finally, my favourite! The squirrel got nervous a couple of times and ran up the tree to calm down. I could hear it coming back down, but it moves very very quickly and it was impossible to catch it in a frame and stretched out while climbing it’s too long to fit the frame anyway. But there was this one moment when it settled on the stick and curved the tail and gave me just enough time to focus on the eye and re-compose… imagine my joy when I found that the eye is tack-sharp! Needless to say that I didn’t get a second chance at this. And please don’t break my heart by saying that it’s too tight at the bottom. I think I could get some more pine trunk from another picture and add it here if I really really must, but I’ve decided to love this picture as it is!

And wanna hear something funny? I still have some squirrel pictures left…