Some more of my red tail friend part 1 (image heavy)

[CaraRose]

Some more of my buddy from the other day. And a few more shots of my squirrel friend who had the bad day.

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2 Poor guy's wing feathers look a bit tattered


3 I know your in there Squirrel!


4 So close but so far...


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8 Close crop


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10 Come out come out


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12 Some more of the squirrely popping the head out.


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16 To quote Mr. Squirrel "OH S***!"


17 "I'm going back into my hole now"



For those rooting for team squirrel, some good news...

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I admit I was rooting for the hawk, but that was cause I wanted a shot of him snagging him out of the hole!

Part II later of my shots of Mr. Hawk as he moved around looking for other prey.

[Eric D]

Nice story...well captured.

[Singletracklovr]

Nice series. Well done. Thanks for sharing them.

[mjs1973]

A really cool series Cara. Have you given any thought to merging a couple of them together? You could easily take the image #6 and merge it with #16 so you have the hawk looking at the hole while the squirrel is looking out. I did it using Photoshop and it worked pretty slick.

[CaraRose]

Thanks everyone...

Mike, I don't know, I've never tried doing any merging in PS.

[mjs1973]

Thanks everyone...

Mike, I don't know, I've never tried doing any merging in PS.

Photoshop has made merging photos pretty easy. With your photos, all I did was took a couple of them and layered them on top of each other. Then with the layers selected I went to Edit > Auto Align Layers. Photoshop then lined them up based on content of the images. Since the log in the images I selected was pretty much the same, it gave PS a pretty easy target to line up. Once it was done I added a layer mask to one of the layers and painted out what I didn't want to show up. The result was an image of the hawk peering into the hole while the squirrel was looking out. I will post a copy of it if you would like to see it.

This may also bring up some ethical questions as far as nature/wildlife photography goes too.

[CaraRose]

Definitely post a copy

[mjs1973]

Here is what I came up with. Again, this was pretty easy to do and only took a couple of minutes in PS.

[paulnj]

Very nice series of images!

[CaraRose]

Very cool, Mike. I may have to try that.

I think the ethics of merging images is that it's cool as long as you say that's what you've done.

And thanks, Paul

[Kokopeli]

They say that a photograph should tell a story and this series does just that. Phenomenal catch CaraRose.

[mjs1973]

Congrats on the Feature photo Cara!

[mEasy27]

Wow. Amazing shots