Baby Marmots- not just another marmot on a rock
Wildlife in the high Sierra from a recent trip, mostly above the tree line.
Marmots were the most common animal we saw, no bears this trip, no mountain lions, just a couple of deer, but a ton of marmots everywhere. The trip was looking to be full of just another bunch of common marmots:
1) Checking us out for potential food
2) Mocking me as I struggle over Army Pass at about 11,900 feet (36.496107°, -118.236984°)
but then I got lucky:
Baby marmots behind our tent group at Trail Camp below the Whitney ridge at about 12,000 feet.
3) all marmots, all the time
I don't have anything for scale, but I'd say that they were still, without their tails, about fist sized?
4) Baby marmot tries to eat a feldspar phenocryst (a big piece of feldspar crystal)
Baby marmots faceoff and mock fighting -I should have upped the shutter speed, my default with this lens is 1/200, and i never thought that marmots would need shutter speeds closer to BIFs (I always read BIFs as banded iron formations, which is odd, because they definitely don't move that fast).
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7) 'ruined' by motion blur, but i love it
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10) Wait, stop, we have an audience.
11) Eating a seed, I think, we kept a clean camp
12) More camera awareness
13)PSA- this is where your trash ends up!
14) Mom, watching me mildly concerned.
(this one is cropped to keep a neighbors bright blue wag bag out of the shot.
C&C is welcome, I think the biggest place I could have improved was just recognizing I needed a faster shutter speed. I thought I wanted more depth of field to get more of them in focus, but I think most of the softness in these is from motion. Used more sharpening in post than I usually do to make up for it.
Marmots were the most common animal we saw, no bears this trip, no mountain lions, just a couple of deer, but a ton of marmots everywhere. The trip was looking to be full of just another bunch of common marmots:
1) Checking us out for potential food
2) Mocking me as I struggle over Army Pass at about 11,900 feet (36.496107°, -118.236984°)
but then I got lucky:
Baby marmots behind our tent group at Trail Camp below the Whitney ridge at about 12,000 feet.
3) all marmots, all the time
I don't have anything for scale, but I'd say that they were still, without their tails, about fist sized?
4) Baby marmot tries to eat a feldspar phenocryst (a big piece of feldspar crystal)
Baby marmots faceoff and mock fighting -I should have upped the shutter speed, my default with this lens is 1/200, and i never thought that marmots would need shutter speeds closer to BIFs (I always read BIFs as banded iron formations, which is odd, because they definitely don't move that fast).
5)
6)
7) 'ruined' by motion blur, but i love it
8)
9)
10) Wait, stop, we have an audience.
11) Eating a seed, I think, we kept a clean camp
12) More camera awareness
13)PSA- this is where your trash ends up!
14) Mom, watching me mildly concerned.
(this one is cropped to keep a neighbors bright blue wag bag out of the shot.
C&C is welcome, I think the biggest place I could have improved was just recognizing I needed a faster shutter speed. I thought I wanted more depth of field to get more of them in focus, but I think most of the softness in these is from motion. Used more sharpening in post than I usually do to make up for it.
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