Snowshoe hare on the snow in willow thickets. Canon 5D Mark III, 500mm f/4L II IS, 1/800 sec @ f/5.6, ISO 400, hand held.
I’ve just returned from another successful aurora photo tour into Alaska’s arctic, but to give a little break from aurora pictures, which I’ve been posting a lot of lately, here is a little creature of the boreal forest that takes shelter from its predators in the shrubby willow thickets. The snowshoe hare turns white in winter, and uses this cryptic pelage to camouflage itself among the snow. During the day they rest in the thickets, which makes getting a clear shot at them difficult. This was one of the rare frames free of brush clutter. During the tour we had a lot of snow and cloudy weather, but fortunately some aurora also. Thanks to Alaska in general, there is always something interesting to photograph across its great landscape.
RT @alaskaphoto: Snowshoe hare: Snowshoe hare on the snow in willow thickets. Canon 5D Mark III, 500mm f/4L … http://t.co/4X72nAflSH
RT @alaskaphoto: Snowshoe hare: Snowshoe hare on the snow in willow thickets. Canon 5D Mark III, 500mm f/4L … http://t.co/4X72nAflSH
It would be great if you could photograph a hare, lite by a rising moon, in the foreground, with the aurora streaming overhead, backlighting its fur!
Nice one! I am not sick of your aurora post so can I get to see last night one please!
YY, Sorry you could not participate in that last minute decision to try the aurora in Fairbanks, there was some action around 12-2. I’ll show one on the next post.
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