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This Week's Theme: "Nice Beaver"

Description: Photograph wild animals in their natural habitat, doing what critters do. Difficulty: must be SFW and within Fark's usual guidelines.

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- Submissions must be photographs; screen captures do not count as photographs.
- You must be the original photographer of your entry. Do not submit anyone else's photography as your own.
- You are only allowed to enter a photograph once. Do not submit the same photo to another contest later.
- You may enter 3 photos in each contest as long as each photo is of a different composition.
- Please post each photo separately so they can be voted for individually.

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Pileated Woodpecker

New Age Redneck: [farm8.staticflickr.com image 768x1024]

Is your second photo HDR?

New Age Redneck: Elsinore


Is your second photo HDR?

No, just a little tweak with the highlights, I try and make things look like they did on Velvia or E100VS. I only carry a little Canon S95 point and shoot; the HDR setting would render the animals blurry as would trying to get 3 or 4 different exposures as the sheep were constantly moving... the day I shot this we were climbing nearby and happened to see the sheep, rarely carry a tripod when I am rock climbing...I actually don't know how to do the HDR thing in post processing....

Ahh gotcha

Rixel: No actual beaver pics?  Don't blame you.   I would be terrified if I was within picture distance of one.  Heard they are pretty vicious.   They are nothing like the cartoons make them out to be.

I actually really hope someone DOES submit a beaver shot.  The one time I thought I was going to get one, it was gone by the time I got my camera out.

Linguine: [farm3.staticflickr.com image 850x563]
Yellow Bellied Marmot

Nice marmot ;)

Great shots as always, folks, and especially glad to see some actual beavers in the mix ;)  I'd like to take a moment to welcome our Farktography First Timers doofusss and vandamme as well as give a warm welcome back to some folks we hadn't seen in awhile: ArkAngel, Fritriac, and RatMaster999--hope to see all of you back next week!

Results aren't final until the thread closes sometime after midnight, but at this point congrats to top finishers DrPainMD, Morchella, wickedfish, Lovesandwich, and Linguine!  After the thread closes, the final winner (or winners in case of a tie) will receive all due praise and adulation at farktography.net and in the Fark Farktography Forum.

See everyone next week for "Selfies"!