Very few people get down on their stomachs and look face to face with animals close to the ground. Many of these small creatures, though, are intriguing when seen intimately. One of the things I enjoy about photography is its ability to surprise us with things we don't normally see, like this eye-level shot of a sally lightfoot crab I saw in the Galapagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador. I took this picture in 1995 when we were all still shooting film. I used a Mamiya RZ 67, 250mm lens (equivalent to about a 135mm lens in the full frame digital format), a waist-level finder (which made it easy on my neck because I could look down into the viewfinder instead of looking horizontally), and I hand held the shot. I used Fujichrome Provia 100 transparency film, and my settings were probably 1/250 at f/8.
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