You can eat the flowers

While lupines are generally highly toxic, the flowers are evidently edible, at least according to this hoary marmot. Taken at Mt Rainier National Park

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Any pertinent technical details:D300, 18-200 lens at 200, ISO 400, 1/630 @ f 8

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A nice close-up of this critter doing what herbivores do most, Skip. You might play with selectively brightening the eye a bit. The image seems rather noisy, so you might want to run some reduction on it.

Very cool Skip, I have similar shots from the same location. I would run some selective sharpening on the face and noise reduction on the greenery.

Skip: this is a fine capture of an animal going about its life and a colorful capture as well. Consider taking down the lights just a bit and add some noise reduction to the greenery. Richard