Eastern Chipmunk - New Jersey

Eastern Chipmunk smiling:

Eastern Chipmunk ( Tamias striatus ) - New Jersey

I hope you needed that smile today! 😊

This is one of those images that fully brings memories of that particular day. I returned to this location in Northern NJ where few days before, I found and successfully photographed Blackburnian Warblers. What a day it was! With hopes of improving my shots from that day, I returned and stood for hours at this spot, with this composition in mind, certain that in any second one of the resident Blackburnian Warblers will drop down for a photo or two. Long story short, my “dream” shot never materialized but this cute little fella stopped by and gave me that precious smile😍 So yes, I drove 1.5 hour (one way) only to photograph a very common, in my area, rodent that day🙈 But to be honest, that scene made it all worth it! As it turned out, it is most likely one of my favorite photographs of a chipmunk thus far, as I rarely point my camera in their direction. Funny thing is, I can even remember the smell of the forest that day! Aaah, the magic of photography!

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Osprey aka fish hawk flying off with a just caught fish in its talons in a warm golden lightMonmouth County, New Jersey, East Coast, USAPhotograph captured with a Sony A1 camera paired with a Sony 600mm f/4 GM OSS lens and 1.4x extender, at 840mm, using following settings: 1/1000 s, f/5.6, ISO 2000Please contact: info@greggard.com for licensing informationwww.GregGard.comALL RIGHTS RESERVED