Photography #156
Found a snapping turtle when wandering up a creek this weekend. You can watch it really try to repeatedly bite me in the video at the bottom of this page.
85mm isn’t the best birding lens but really cool to see owls out in the neighborhood.
A kinder, gentler baby turtle.
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