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Peter Eide's picture

Beaver Night

Later this night, while I was taking pictures of a crayfish on the bank, a beaver snuck up on me out of seemingly nowhere. There it was at eye level, up on the rocks maybe 7 feet away, and huge. I got a few nice shots of the beaver, but this image was the winner of the night.

I first took a picture of this little waterfall by my house with a headlamp and a cell phone on a late night walk several years earlier. I knew that when I finally had a "real camera" that I'd try to shoot the same location.

I went out on a full moon, so as to be able to capture as much light on the water as possible, and timed the moon's location in the sky using Photo Pills. This allowed me to make sure that the bridge would be out of the way for the majority of the moonlight across the frame. I also managed to get Jupiter represented as the bright dot in the otherwise light polluted and moon illuminated sky.

Sony ILCE-6400
16mm · f/2.8 · 30" · ISO 800
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