Herb Houghton
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The lake I live on had a beaver family on it from around 2006-2008. In the summer of 2008, they were trapped and relocated away from people and private lakes. They destroyed many lakefront trees which would fall into the lake and then provide them food for weeks. It also provided good bass habitat underwater.  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.
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