The Wild, Elusive Arctic Hare
This is the mammal that I've been searching for recently on the Annieopsquotch Mountains. I don't really know why. I'm not going to get any better photographs than the four hundred or so I already have of this one. In fact, that's the case for a lot of the animals and birds I've shot over the years ... eagles, loons, seals, foxes, to name just a few. I see an eagle now, for example, and I barely give it a second glance ... been there, done that. In a way, having accomplished something you've set as a goal, is what what makes it difficult to keep photography fresh and interesting.
Still, this litte beastie is so damn elusive I'd like to get another crack at it. A Newfoundland government website states "Few Newfoundlanders have ever seen this rare mammal". I've seen it a grand total of three times ... once, in the springtime with a bunch of young when I didn't even have a camera ... another time I came upon one in a dense fog in the summertime ... again without a camera ... and this one. So, I suppose that's not bad. With this little creature, though, as with the Kingfisher I spent three weeks stalking last fall ... with one of the worse cases of sciatica you can imagine ... I guess it's more about the chase than the photographic capture. The photograph just becomes a record of what you've accomplished ... a bright, shining aid to a memory of days that would blur into one without it.
The Wild, Elusive Arctic Hare
This is the mammal that I've been searching for recently on the Annieopsquotch Mountains. I don't really know why. I'm not going to get any better photographs than the four hundred or so I already have of this one. In fact, that's the case for a lot of the animals and birds I've shot over the years ... eagles, loons, seals, foxes, to name just a few. I see an eagle now, for example, and I barely give it a second glance ... been there, done that. In a way, having accomplished something you've set as a goal, is what what makes it difficult to keep photography fresh and interesting.
Still, this litte beastie is so damn elusive I'd like to get another crack at it. A Newfoundland government website states "Few Newfoundlanders have ever seen this rare mammal". I've seen it a grand total of three times ... once, in the springtime with a bunch of young when I didn't even have a camera ... another time I came upon one in a dense fog in the summertime ... again without a camera ... and this one. So, I suppose that's not bad. With this little creature, though, as with the Kingfisher I spent three weeks stalking last fall ... with one of the worse cases of sciatica you can imagine ... I guess it's more about the chase than the photographic capture. The photograph just becomes a record of what you've accomplished ... a bright, shining aid to a memory of days that would blur into one without it.