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Water Vole

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Posted by Maggie Campbell on December 7, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Water Vole
Taken a few weeks ago. Hoping for some decent weather and light to get back again soon. Never tire of these little fellahs.

D300
50-500mm
f6.3
1/200s
-0.3EV
ISO 1600
Tripod

All C&C very welcome as always.
Posted by Dave Bartlett on December 7, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Excellent - great reflection and I like the space you have given the vole too :toast:
Posted by Karen Summers on December 7, 2009 at 5:31 PM
Awww thats lovely love these little fellas great capture and reflection like this very much
Posted by Sandra Hendrikse on December 8, 2009 at 2:07 AM
Hi Maggie,

What a lovely and well composed image, with great reflection. Well done. :smile:
Posted by Matt Cole on December 8, 2009 at 2:21 AM
that's very nice Maggie, a little different to the norm. I think the unusual composition works well with the reflection.

Matt
Posted by David Sewell on December 8, 2009 at 4:09 AM
That is a lovely water-vole picture Maggie. If I am being ultra-critical I might have positioned it very slightly further right in the frame so that it was on a third, but that is a very minor nit indeed. As others have said, the reflection is fabulous.

David

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Posted by Kim Connolly on December 8, 2009 at 4:19 AM
I would never tire of them either Maggie, it is a gorgeous composition, no nits at all apart from being green with envy!! :toast:
Posted by Chris O'Reilly on December 8, 2009 at 4:37 AM
Nice shot Maggie

I'd agree with a slight re-composition to allow a little more room on the left -no big deal though. I can see why you like photographing this species.

Cheers,
Chris
Posted by Simon Phillpotts on December 8, 2009 at 5:56 AM
Really nice Maggie, I like the extra space here as already said. A lovely reflection as well.

Simon
Posted by David Kjaer on December 8, 2009 at 12:33 PM
Lovely image Maggie - I like your composition!

David :toast: :toast:
Posted by Ian Haskell on December 8, 2009 at 2:02 PM
Cute, Cool reflection and nice composition.

Ian
Posted by PhilH on December 8, 2009 at 3:05 PM
Very nice indeed, I hope you have some space around as I think it does need some CW rotation ( I could be wrong and would be happy to be shown to be wrong ), but draw a line with the ruler tool from the centre of the eye of the Vole to the centre of the eye of the reflection, choose image- rotate- arbitary and the figures should be filled in for you... as I said I could be totally wrong here, but if you have room around give it a try...

Really like your choice of composition....

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Posted by Phillip Tomkinson on December 9, 2009 at 6:03 AM
Hi a very nice image, I'm hoping to get some myself next week :wink: .

Phil.

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Posted by Brett Lewis on December 9, 2009 at 7:25 AM
Very nice indeed Maggie, nits mentioned so can only echo those. However, It's a really intimate shot and very well composed otherwise. Nice setting to.

Brett :toast: