thephotosocietyさんのインスタグラム写真 - (thephotosocietyInstagram)「Photograph by @andyparkinsonphoto/@thephotosociety Mountain hares touching noses – This seemed like an appropriate image to post this Easter weekend and it’s one of my favourite recent images of mountain hares. Having photographed them now for some16 years I never fail to be amazed when I get to witness new aspects of behaviour, behaviours that I’ve never even seen before, let alone photographed. In this instance I was alone on the hill, concealed and freezing cold in a snow-filled ditch I watched as these two hares came running towards me. As tempting as it was to fire the shutter I didn’t want any sound to interrupt their behaviour, I knew from experience that breeding pursuits such as this could often lead to the hare Holy Grail, boxing! They passed by me unnoticed and then, some 10 yards of so behind me they stopped and squared up to one another. That moment was agony for me as I had to try and turn my carcass around in my snow filled ditch, as quickly as I possibly could but not so that my movement caught their eyes and sent them running. Craning my neck to watch them as I contorted myself I felt certain that this was one of those cruel moments, where fate conspires and I get to see, but not photograph, something that I’d always longed to do. Slowly, slowly I turned , my heart racing, my internal dialogue pleading with them to just pause, just wait for a second so that I can get my lens onto them. Something smiled on me that day and they did pause, enabling me to frame the image quite loosely to accommodate any explosive leap. Instead they did this, this impossibly beautiful moment, one of a series of some 20 images that included this ‘kiss’ and then plenty of head rubbing. The natural world is a truly miraculous thing and this remains one of the most beautiful moments that I’ve ever encountered.」4月23日 12時44分