I love these guys! This was another from the same set as the Pelican from a semi-recent visit to a nature reserve. They have a little hatch (is that the right word?) next to the river and aren’t very shy at all. They were quite friendly and indeed there were quite a few others standing nearby.

My aim was really to get the meerkat looking like it was in a natural environment. The trouble with nature reserves is that you really get a distorted picture of what’s going on with cars and people in the background. This one has come out quite well, because the kats were actually elevated which put them at pretty much the perfect height to take the shot.

All of that day was spent with my 100-400 glued to the 40D. I haven’t used it in quite some time, so it was really great getting out and about taking some nature shots.

This is the first picture to be posted in quite a while, but I’m really going to try and make an effort to get posting more images, especially now that the year is coming to an end!

This guy was taken on a recent trip out to a local nature reserve, and it really was a great little place. I hadn’t used the long telephoto in a while, and the light was pretty much perfect. Not much needed to be done apart from a little sharpening and some color balancing.