I think skunks get a bad rap. No one wants to be close to them. But the truth is they are very pretty animals, and as babies they are adorable. That's the good news. The bad news is they are incredibly fast and never seem to stop moving. I photographed these babies at one of my wildlife workshops, and the only way my group and I could get a picture like this was if the animal handler held the skunks close together and released them just before we pressed our shutter buttons. The little guys were so fast that even this strategy only gave us about a half second to shoot before they were completely dispersed. The handler would scoop them up again and repeat the process until we all got good shots. My settings for this shot were 1/400, f/5.0, 400 ISO, and I used a 70-200mm lens.
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