Rabbit in Buttercup Meadow

Rabbits used to be a very common sight and so I’ve mainly ignored them from a photographic point of view. However, in recent years their numbers have declined dramatically and that sparked my interest in capturing some images. Whilst out to photograph Great Crested Grebes I was delighted to find a small population close by and it wasn’t long before I decided to take up the challenge of photographing them. With super senses and a keen sense for danger they are not the easiest subjects to get close to. This mainly involved inching may way on my hands and knees through soaking wet grass in the early morning. This image was taken close to the ground with a wide aperture. Part of the frame was obscured by grass and Buttercups which helped create a blurred foreground and draw the eye to the Rabbit as it nibbled on some stalks of grass.