Squirrel in Focus

Squirrel

This made me laugh:

Melissa Brandts wasn’t trying to take a photo of this ground squirrel at Banff National Park. She’d set up the camera’s timer so that she’d have a nice picture of herself and her husband, with spectacular Lake Minnewanka in the background. She hadn’t counted on this ground squirrel hogging the foreground.Photo by Melissa Brandt, from the Your Shot Daily Dozen at National Geographic magazine

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18 Comments leave a comment below

  1. that just made my day… seriously hilarious.

    Nate.
    Aug 13th, 2009 / 1:24 pm

  2. Hi gorgeous!

    Scottie
    Aug 13th, 2009 / 1:37 pm

  3. That is just totally brilliant. I love squirrels. This is why! :D

    Robert
    Aug 13th, 2009 / 2:18 pm

  4. Oh, how much fun! This is absolutely wonderful, what a treasure.

    TootsNYC
    Aug 13th, 2009 / 5:00 pm

  5. i hope they sent that squirrel a copy of the picture. heh, heh. ;)

    Lisa
    Aug 13th, 2009 / 8:37 pm

  6. Love it, but yes, of course it is fake. Keep in mind that even the top DSLRs don’t autofocus after you set the timer. The squirrel is in perfect focus yet the people are blurred out, meaning the focus was on the squirrel when they hit the timer. If you want to get more technical, on a bright sunny day like this even a crappy camera would default to a high F stop which gives you nearly infinite focus meaning both the squirrel and people would be in focus….which would be far less dramatic. The comments about the tame squirrels in this area are completely true, and only lend to the fact that they saw a tame squirrel, got a close up of it and photoshopped it in. If this site would let me attach photos you would see how that same squirrel appears to be in my office right now! Nonetheless, still a great photoshopped image that makes me smile. Thanks for posting it.

    saarinen
    Aug 13th, 2009 / 9:51 pm

  7. This made my afternoon ! have a nice weekend, everybody!

    Jany
    Aug 14th, 2009 / 8:16 am

  8. Even if its fake I still love it!

    Waxy
    Aug 14th, 2009 / 12:26 pm

  9. Maybe it is real and the couple just doesn’t know how to focus.

    Rossi
    Aug 14th, 2009 / 1:24 pm

  10. Or maybe they photoshopped themselves into the picture?

    Jocelyn
    Aug 14th, 2009 / 2:05 pm

  11. So cute! I love squirrels!

    -kaunis.wordpress.com

    kaunis
    Aug 15th, 2009 / 12:09 pm

  12. The Banff Photobomber Squirrel has been caught on video:
    http://www.youtube.com/user/banfflakelouise2

    Steve
    Aug 15th, 2009 / 8:18 pm

  13. This made my day. It looks like it could be a cartoon. ;o}

    Pati
    Aug 16th, 2009 / 10:32 am

  14. I love this! What a great shot!

    Michelle Schrader
    Aug 17th, 2009 / 10:21 am

  15. this is adorable and hilarious. i love it!

    b.
    Aug 17th, 2009 / 7:34 pm

  16. There’s a flickr group dedicated to the basil nutts the squirrel (somehow he’s the new aretha’s hat now) http://www.flickr.com/groups/1227605@N22/

    Fake or not, this is hilarious!

    Zana Fauzi
    Aug 17th, 2009 / 8:56 pm

  17. Not sure if you’ve already seen this, but it’s equally amusing… squirrelize your photos here!

    http://www.lutralutra.co.uk/squirrelizer/

    Stacey
    Aug 24th, 2009 / 7:48 pm

  18. Someone took revenge and interrupted the squirrels’ photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/glennbatuyong/3836441981/

    Glenn
    Aug 27th, 2009 / 11:38 pm