Getting Eye Level With the Rabbits

There are times when I just seem to want to take photos of something, irrespective of what it might be or what I might do with the images afterwards.  I was sitting out on the deck behind our house and there were some rabbits eating our grass (as there often are).  I had been watching some videos on wildlife photography and they had been emphasizing the need to get the camera angle low to improve the focus on the animal and separate it from the background.  I had the camera and a long lens and there were some rabbits so why not give it a go.

Unfortunately, the rabbits are rather skittish, so some patience was required to get down on the ground without scaring them away.  Then I had to wait until they looked in the right direction.  Meanwhile, I was struggling with the angle being so low that the rabbits were partially obscured by the ground.  (I might also mention, that wasn’t the only struggle.  Lying on the ground for a while was making me quite uncomfortable and, when I did finally get up, it wasn’t elegant.) These were the results of my experimentation.

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