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Mega Rat Post!!!

I took a lot of photos of rats today at Falmer Pond… so many that I’ve barely scratched the surface in sorting them out. Here’s a few of them (processed in Lightroom 5.7, released today and able to handle the 7D Mark II files). At last!

Rats

Rats

Rats

Rats

Rats

Rats

Rats

Rats

Rats

Rats

Rats

Rats

Rats

Rats

ps: I took a tiny bit of video as well. I’ll get that up in a day or so 😉

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.

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Back to Rats

No sightings of the badger yet tonight, so instead here are some photos of the local rats, taken this morning at Falmer Pond. It was pretty gloomy, and for the technically inclined the first shot was taken at a modest ISO 1600; the rest were all at ISO 3,200. They are more or less straight from the camera (just a little bit of brightening on a couple of them, and minor sharpening for the web).

rat

Cautious approach…

rat and bread

A tasty morsel of bread

rat

Out to explore…

rat

rat

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II and EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.

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Badger in the Rain

More badger photos tonight. I was out in the garden watching her (him?) for about 15 minutes, both of us getting wet.

badger in the rain

badger in the rain

badger in the rain

badger in the rain

Camera note: all photos taken with the Canon 7D Mark II and EF 200mm f/2.8L II USM lens.

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