Fav Foto Friday #27

Share each Friday, on your own blog, one photo…or maybe even a gallery of some of your favorite photos that you have taken during the week, that make you smile or that was a great photo capturing opportunity…anything really!  And as photographers are often known to say, “The best camera is, the one that you have with you!”

Whether you are a pro-photographer or just venturing into photography…or maybe you are like me and just whip out your cell phone when you are going about your day…take those photos and share them! Feel free to add any camera info and shooting info that you may have on your photos as well.

Don’t forget to link back (pingback) here and add a #FavFotoFriday tag so that I can enjoy all your Favorite Fotos too!

This week’s edition of Fav Foto Friday is one of my all time favorite photos that I took last year shortly after getting my ‘big girl’ camera. I am actually surprised that I had not added this photo to Fav Foto Friday already. But I happened to receive an email from a photography site, Pixoto, that I occasionally add photos to, letting me know that one of my photos had received an award.

Pixoto is an online community where photographers compete to have the best images in their category. Submitted images are matched against each other in the ImageDuel system and voted on by other community members. The winners advance on the Image Leaderboards and vie for the coveted top spot.

So upon further investigation, I found out that this photo was in the “Top 5% in Animals for 2015”!! Which as you might imagine is pretty exciting!

Back in May 2015, when I originally took this photo, I had submitted it in a weekly contest on the site within the Animal category, and it ended up with a “Top 10%” award for that particular contest, along with the comment below from the coordinator/host of the contest, which was a pretty big deal at the time too.

This is one of the cutest squirrel images that I’ve seen, Sandy. I’m pleased that it outperformed more than 480 images in Your Best Pixoto Uploads from May 15th-21st, 2015 to win a Top 10% award. That’s an impressive accomplishment. Congratulations.

My original intention when grabbing my camera on this particular day was to take some photos of the birds out at my new bird feeders but instead I got the amusing shenanigans of this adorable ‘Squirrel Thief.’ I got lots of shots of this cutie, but this is my favorite of them all. Lucky for him, I am an equal opportunity wildlife feeder, so he got to get a belly full of the bird food.

If you would like, you can see more of my photos by going to Pixoto and checking out this photo and others.

Hope you have enjoyed today’s Fav Foto Friday selections! Join me and share some of your favorite images! Don’t forget to tag your post #favfotofriday.