Wildlife Photography of  Philip Newman
Wildlife Photography of  Philip Newman
......natural history......natural places......
Shot of the Month  -  December 2010
Foraging BADGER.

Very many thanks to Peter Lewis from Peterhead Camera Club for kindly sharing his Badger site with me.  It was  an incredible experience and the first shock I had was the sheer size of Badger, this was one very large mammal.  After Peter had scattered some peanuts about this Badger appeared after about 15 minutes and was completely oblivious to our torches and chatting and came within 15 feet of us.  The main problem was trying to autofocus in the dim torch light.  This was taken manually focussing.  Canon EOS 1D4, 70-200mm set at 100mm, ISO 800, one flash mounted on camera, 1/125th at F2.8.

 

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