While on my hike this morning I came across this turtle. I think it was a Snapping Turtle. When I first saw it I was about 20 feet away. I dropped my backback, pulled out my tripod, mounted my camera with its 50mm lens on the tripod and took a shot. I moved closer and took another shot. I did this for about 15 minutes and the turtle only looked my way once then looked forward again. It did not seem to worried about my presence.
So naturally I moved much closer than you probably should to a "Snapping" turtle. As you can see below I was very close. Within a couple of feet.
After taking a several photo's I decided the bit of dried grass across its eye needed to go. I took a looong stick and brushed the grass away from its eye. Still not much of a reaction from the turtle.
The minimum focusing distance of the 50mm prime lens I was using is 1.5 feet. I had moved past that a one point and had to move the tripod back to be to get the turtle in focus again.
Eventually the turtle did sand up and start to leave. I took a few more photo's and then backed off. It sat back down then. It did turn around to face me at that point.
Here are a few photo's I took.
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| After I finally decided to remove the grass from its eye |
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