TwoGreenEyes

Wild Box Turtle

Wild Box Turtle

Look who crawled on our driveway one day in Pennsylvania... a wild Box Turtle (I found out later). I grabbed my camera, flash, reflector and a blanket thinking ...
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Look who crawled on our driveway one day in Pennsylvania... a wild Box Turtle (I found out later). I grabbed my camera, flash, reflector and a blanket thinking it would be easy to follow him on his quest, but in the end I had to relocate pretty often. I was fascinated by his "old man" eyes...
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Canon EOS 5D Mark II

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Aperture f/14.0 ISO 320 Shutter 1/125 Focal Length 88/1

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Jun, 2015

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Beautifully captured. Love the POV Nicky, a superb shot. Nice detail, bravo!

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Ohh, WOW, what a magnificent capture of this stunning Turtle. He is divine. Another shot you have perfected.

Great DOF in this!!

Thanks, Nancy. I am trying to remember which lens I used. Possibly used extension tubes on a 24-105. Have to look that up...

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