Day 2/365

An absolutely miserable day - been raining since the middle of the night and still no let-up.  Managed to catch this little chap, sheltering from the rain in the nearby woods, with my old FujiFilm S8100fd - well, I'm not taking a 'good' camera out in this weather!  Taken from about 50m away, at ISO200 f/4.5 1/60s and 480mm (35mm equivalent); matte applied using Picasa 3.9.

Demon squirrel

A lesson in always being prepared - as I turned a corner in the park and set off along a little footpath I heard a rustle in the fallen leaves to my right side. Turning, and switching my camera to 'shoot mode' at the same time, whilst also trying to find the pop-up flash button ,the first shot (in 'manual mode' from my last shot) just served to scare my subject into bolting for the nearest tree. My second and final shot before he vanished into the undergrowth (this time on 'auto') is shown below (the whole episode lasted no more than 5 seconds). It was greatly underexposed but I was determined to extract something from the shot.

Just a couple of 'Portraits'