Framing Pika

Garrett, the blurred foreground line overpowers an otherwise beautiful image

I agree with Paul about the bright blurry streaks in the image. But if one is able to pretend they are not there, the image is truly spectacular!

The light that you have on the Pika is wonderful, and that light, along with the Pika's pose and your proximity to it, enabled you to capture the details of his pelage with extreme clarity and crispness, which I love.

Another thing that you did very right in this image is to shoot from a position from which you can clearly see the Pika's legs and feet. After two decades of photographing Pika, my pet peeve is images in which the Pika's feet are obscured from view by the rocks. Of course that can work, and result in an excellent image, but when I come back from a day of shooting, and have hundreds of images of Pika, and every one has the feet obscured ..... well that is a problem. Great work positioning yourself so that all of him/her is in the clear!