Happy Monday.  Today is all about squirrels.  We stopped at a city park to shoot some pretty flowers on Saturday and I wasn’t getting the results I wanted so I went back to Barb’s SUV to get my flash.  Because of the overcast day and the fact that I was shooting with the 80 – 400 mm lens meant that I was at a shutter speed that wouldn’t freeze the movement of the flowers.  Additionally I didn’t like they way they looked with a higher ISO so I reasoned they would look better with a flash.

I’m easily distracted and right in the middle of my flower shoot I saw a squirrel.  Well naturally I had to photograph him.  Never mind that I was shooting with a flash (that couldn’t reach the squirrel), but it would inhibit my shutter speed to 1/60 of a second, which as we all know will not freeze action.  So the little squirrel is not tack sharp but he is still the focus of today’s post.  🙂

I followed him to this tree and he was playing a game of hide and seek with me.  Altogether I probably ripped off about 40 shots on this little critter and if I were being honest, not one of them was a keeper.  But I like squirrels and it always reminds me of “Rocky,” the tamed squirrel who used to sit next to my Dad in his back yard and eat oatmeal cookies.  🙂

Hope you have a wonderful Monday.  Thanks for stopping by and be careful.