Eastern Chipmunk, by David M
|
| Click image to see a larger view in David's gallery. |
David M
is an ex-pat Brit now living in Ontario, Canada. David only joined the DPNow forum and galleries in September last year but almost immediately attracted attention with a shot of a black-capped chickadee and it was an instant POTD hit. This time, David has pointed his big old Olympus OM 350mm f/2.8 'legacy' lens at an Eastern Chipmunk. In fact David also used a 1.4x teleconverter. Using an Olympus E-System camera, that stacks up to an equivalent of almost a 1000mm f/4 telephoto. David has captured the chipmunk in an interesting sideways pose and the background is nice de-focused so that the little rodent is not having to compete with other details. Only a blade of grass poking up behind the chipmunk can be classed as an imperfection and could probably be cloned out.
Would you like one of your pictures featured on DPNow's POTD?
We are always on the look out for great pictures posted to the user-galleries here on DPNow. POTDs are selected from the gallery and featured every week day. The gallery facility here is completely free; all you need to do is register as a user on our discussion forum and you will get an automatic 25MB of space, which is good for around 125 pictures uploaded at web resolution, about 200K per picture. At the time of writing we had almost 16,000 pictures on the galleries and it's well worth a browse.
Picture of the month
At the end of each month we will select our favourite image of the month and declare a Picture of the Month.
The DPNow Golden Gallery
Our ultimate accolade, the DPNow Golden Gallery, is reserved for what we feel are the very finest images. We invite anyone to submit their pictures for inclusion in the Golden Gallery. Why not have a look at the Golden Gallery submission form? The vast majority are usually rejected, which is why we feel that the ones we do feature are extra special.
v
Reader feedback:
Discuss this story:
