Long time visitors to this site will have seen this image before – it’s the “best” raccoon portrait I have ever taken (I think) but the recent visitations have not allowed me to better it, so here it it again. Fun creatures so long as they don’t get in your garbage.


  • Aperture: ƒ/5.6
  • Camera: Canon EOS 20D
  • Taken: 12 July, 2006
  • Exposure bias: -1/3EV
  • Focal length: 260mm
  • ISO: 1600
  • Shutter speed: 1/40s