6/6/2003: Squirrel with candy

Happy Friday! Resistance is useless for this shot from last week's MSNBC Week in Pics: if you don't smile, you probably need therapy.

It's also a superior photo as you see how the focus is spot-on. The peanut butter cup and the animal's nose are in focus; the focus draws the eye to a kind of natural flow around the picture. And you know this beast didn't sit there and pose... it probably lingered there for about a half second. That's some fine work.

This one needs the proper quote to go with it. It's very obvious what the squirrell is thinking:

"What? What are you staring at? Do I have something stuck in my teeth?"

How do you eat your Reeses?

Or, for those of us who are older:
Hey! You got chocolate in my peanut butter!

After remembering warch's squirrel terror bit, I'm hoping Tony isn't putting too much weight on this no smile = therapy deal.

If Reese's doesn't pick that up for print ads they are nuttier than their peanut butter.

I've been trying to think what this picture reminds me of and it just came to me. Have you seen the squirrel in Ice Age?

I saw this picture on another site. It was 1/2 an animated gif. The other half was 2 dead squirels and a rifle.

Originally posted by Beletseri
If Reese's doesn't pick that up for print ads they are nuttier than their peanut butter.

I was thinking the same thing. Not only is the picture very technically well-done (as UT pointed out), but the Reese's logo couldn't be any more prominent if they tried!

Leave it up to the college folks...

http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~yaz/en/squirrel_fishing.html