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Mr. Squirrel

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I saw this squirrel in my favourite park in Warsaw. It had been chased by a big rat a moment before I took this photo! I made sure it was safe and that the rat went another way. 
I love these adorable, tiny paws!
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Image size
3456x3456px 10.05 MB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 550D
Shutter Speed
1/99 second
Aperture
F/4.5
Focal Length
81 mm
ISO Speed
400
Date Taken
Oct 11, 2013, 4:58:30 PM
Sensor Size
15mm
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:star::star::star::star: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Vision
:star::star::star::star::star-half: Originality
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Impact

This is a very good capture. A Squirrel is an extremely squrimish animal and you manage to capture it with a very slow speed (1/100) without any kind of noticeable blur and with a relatively small focal distance (you were very close without spooking it).
The only thing I would have done differently would have been close the aperture a tiny bit more to see if I could have put in focus the furry tail, which is just adorable, but, as I can see, you already have a slow speed and a relatively high ISO for a 550D, so you might have been snapping in relatively low light conditions, so I believe it might have been difficult. I can discern a little bit of color noise (ISO noise) on the top of the photo.
The photo is perfectly framed (maybe too perfect as you placed the little critter dead center and he is a bit tilted to the right. As such, you could have placed him a bit to the left and give a little equilibrium to the mind processing) and the color balance, vibrance, brightness and contrast are also on the spot. It almost looks if you had been adjusting the colors until the histograms were on the right places <img src="e.deviantart.net/emoticons/s/s…" width="15" height="15" alt=":-)" data-embed-type="emoticon" data-embed-id="392" title=":-) (Smile)"/>.
Congratulations on a very good work!