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Herb, You inspire me (others do as much...). Just superb. I thought #3 had a piece of cheese (we all know different of course, surprised not a glass of red wine next to it...). I luv looking at your submissions and all the others. It amazes me what all can capture and show. I won't go into names, but as a newbie, there are so many that blow me away with their skills, captures, the so orgasmic pics (hope I can say that.. probably be banned forever but using word to describe how I feel) that this forum offers.  Anyway, I am stroked. I wish I had a lot more time to just stay online 24/7. But if I was, guess I would not be out pic taking. Plus a job, etc. bummer. Anyway, I said my peace for now...Chuck
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My next door neighbor had a tree taken down by the beavers at which time the beavers would chew off the branches, swim them to my yard and eat all of the bark off of them as well as the leaves right on my shoreline. I had just started digital photography around late 2006 with point and shoot Panasonic Lumix cameras and then I eventually bought a Canon rebel XTi. I upgraded to a 40D in early 2008 when I had my first big glass, a 300 f2.8 of course with the first version 1.4x and 2x teleconverters. The following images were taken from late 2006 to March 2008 in my own backyard. I setup at dusk about 25 feet away from the shoreline and the beavers would swim to and then crawl on my property with branches to eat. I used the onboard flash from the 40D on most of the shots, along with a ball head/tripod. I was quite green and I wish I had used a smaller aperture for more dof at the time but I did not know of such things at the time. For the repost police: I posted a few of these before in 2008 from a CS2 edit. The 40D shots were reworked in ACR from the original raw files and then in CS6, and the Panasonic jpegs were processed with CS6. Almost all shots are full frame. If it's clipped, It's because it came too close to my hidden position. 
These are a real treat for lots of reasons. I've never had the pleasure of seeing one of these in the wild and the quality you got back then was just fine. I'd really be over the moon to have these on my hard drive....and damn the repost police 
Maybe the camera's rendition of WB in AWB is inaccurate. I guess I could open the jpeg in ACR and warm or cool the WB or use color balance to adjust one way or another ? Is there a color cast or something or a WB issue ? I selected the branch in #3 and pulled the center point down in curves, ultimately reducing the exposure on just the branch. It was such a small element and adjustment I just replaced the image completely with the newer one with that adjustment. Thanks for the comments sir.