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Otter in the rain

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Posted by Richard Peters on May 12, 2009 at 6:01 AM
Otter in the rain
Just returned from a very wet week on Mull, with 5 out of the 7 days beeing almost constant rain, wind and dark grey skies! Still, the last couple of days were not so bad and on the very last one, Colin and I spent an hour with this Otter. One sequence of shots I took seemed to have a random shower in the middle, with only 3 frames containing water droplets. It wasn't from the Otter shaking as none of the shots in the sequence show it doing that. So a very brief shower is all I can put it down too!?

Plenty more shots of this one to one go through yet but thought I'd stick this one up for now as it's the only of only a couple with rain in. Looks better viewed large.

D3, 600 + 1.4x
Posted by Craig Jones on May 12, 2009 at 6:04 AM
Lovely photo richard, very hard to photography otters, love the spray/feeding action, hope to capture one myself when I go soon, :wink: :wink: :wavey:

P.S Viewed large it's beautiful!!! :wink:
Posted by Andy Astbury on May 12, 2009 at 6:48 AM
The small version here doesn't do it justice - larger file very nice Richard :wavey:

The rain just adds to the image - only nit would be that the subject is possibly a bit central but I can't make my mind up to be honest :wink:

Very appealing :wavey:
Posted by Danny Green on May 12, 2009 at 9:02 AM
Very Very nice.

Danny :toast: :toast:
Posted by PhilH on May 12, 2009 at 10:07 AM
One needs to look at the larger version here agree with Andy, the small version just does not do a great image justice....

:toast: :wavey: :toast:
Posted by Stephen Kaluski on May 12, 2009 at 10:28 AM
Very jealous Peter, there three weeks ago, glorious sunshine, but no otters :frown:
Posted by Colin Crowdey on May 12, 2009 at 11:24 AM
large version is fantastic - wonderful detail

cheers

Colin
Posted by Fran French on May 12, 2009 at 12:46 PM
I agree that viewing large is a must to appreciate the fine detail. Very nice indeed.

Fran :toast:
Posted by Barrie Courtenay on May 12, 2009 at 1:05 PM
Hi Richard,well going by this it was worth week of rain,bet your well happy. :wavey:

:toast: :toast:

Did you see the grebes :rolleyes: before Mull?
Posted by Graham Goddard on May 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM
Very nice indeed and the larger version certainly is the one to view :toast:
Posted by Dave Bartlett on May 12, 2009 at 2:33 PM
The large version is outstanding. .Grim weather by the sound of it.

Dave