2005: 11-14 Years - Winner
Mart Smit (The Netherlands)
Red squirrel pose
You'd be hard pressed to take a portrait of a tame animal as perfectly as this, let alone a lively wild one holding not just any piece of wood but a gnarled, silver stump. The squirrel was one of four that played right in front of Mart's hide in a Norwegian forest. It suddenly stopped its antics and posed for him in the early evening light.
Canon EOS 10D with Canon 100-400mm lens; 1/250 sec at f6.3; 400 ISO; Gitzo 1228 tripod.
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