Frederic Desmette

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FREDERIC DESMETTE PHOTOGRAPHY

Badgers

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This badger site is on the crest of a hill. It`s possible to take picture of badger against the skyline… A bit different.

Frederic

 

The whole family looking for food….

The smallest of the tree youngster. “Johnny”  🙂

Fox at sunset

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This picture was taken in my village about 15 years ago. I just came across it while cleaning a hard drive.

Frederic

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Another evening with brown hare

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Another cracking evening, still lot`s of action. Bonus , Dandelion are in full bloom…

Frederic

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Always fighting….before sex! 🙂

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The evening light was gorgeous

I did a few silhouettes

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The surprise of the evening was this beautiful fox…

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Brown hare

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Before work, Yesterday evening I went to my “Hare paradise”. It was going to be a beautiful sunset. For quite a while now, I have been after a shot . I wanted to photograph a hare running in Front of the sun at eye level. Easy thing to say but not easy thing to do. Well, yesterday I was lucky…But I will have to go back…I am sure that it is possible to do Better!  🙂  it always is…

Frederic

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I am a sucker for these kind of pictures

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Hare staring at the sun….

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It`s always nice to come across Chinese water deer.

Look at the canine of that chap!

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Catching up

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Weather has been poor for the last few days….I am catching up with some of my processing.

These pictures were taken about two weeks ago. It was another magical morning. I know , “More hare” , but there is something  I have learned other the years.  When you have a good opportunity to photograph something you should NEVER let it go by. If I do, I always wonder if I could have done better…

My Wife always tell me…you must have enough pictures of hares by now…I always say to her that it is always possible to do better…she tells me that I am mad!  She is probably right…. 🙂 🙂  But what can I do…I love it…

Ps: You can always do better…  🙂

 

Frederic

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I have been told by some Belgian friends that those kind of pictures are almost impossible to do in Belgium.

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This hare came really close….about 6 metres….and it was not afraid of anything!

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A bit of “Arty farty”

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Deer rut, almost over.

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The red deer rutting season is almost over. Again, last Sunday was spectacular ! I had mist, sun at sunrise. it was beautiful.

Also they was a bit of running. One of the big male did not like having small stags around his female…

Here are a few pictures from last Sunday.

Frederic

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They was  lot`s of chasing

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The boss…..

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Badger

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Yesterday evening, I was with “my” badgers. First one came out at 19h45. Beautiful youngster. After I went to another part of the set. I want to do a badger silhouette against the sky, sunset.

This one came out. But I was so impatient to take the shot that I took the shot a bit too early. I should have waited for the badger to get to the top of the mount. Silly me.  Next time…..

 

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I really want to see the all the legs…Close but no cigar!

 

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Song thrush

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Yesterday evening as I was waiting for my first costumer. I saw a song thrush singing his head off. I opened the restaurant first floor window and took a few shots….Five minutes later my first costumers arrived….

Frederic

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