Join the waiting listJoin
A grey-brown rat stands upright among dry bracken and fallen leaves at the edge of bare earth, with its whiskers spread and its tail trailing across the ground.

Rat Testing the Air

A wild brown rat rears up on its hind legs in dead bracken at the foot of a hedgerow, nose lifted and whiskers working, in soft overcast light.

ratbrackenfallen leaveshedgerowbare earthwildlifewhiskers
Download

Small 640×512, Medium 1200×960

Original size1440 × 1152
ShapeLandscape
LicenceFree, commercial use
KindPhoto
Prompt

Authentic quiet documentary wildlife photograph, landscape 5:4. A single wild brown rat stands upright on its hind legs among dry copper bracken and fallen leaves at the base of a hedgerow, nose lifted, whiskers fanned, forepaws held close to its chest, looking curiously toward the camera. Rat placed right of centre, seen from a respectful distance at low ground level, with accurate anatomy, coarse grey-brown damp fur, fine guard hairs and a scaly tail trailing behind. Behind it, blackthorn stems, bramble and pale grass dissolve into soft grey-green blur, with a patch of bare earth in the foreground. Flat diffuse overcast daylight, natural muted colours of russet, olive and umber, believable exposure. 400mm telephoto, shallow depth of field, subtle sensor grain. Reflective, patient mood. No people, no text, no logos, no watermarks.

More like this

A grey manatee surfaces in murky green-brown water, with its nostrils, whiskered face and part of its rounded, mottled back above the surface.Two brown rats face each other on a moss-covered fallen log above a woodland stream; one holds a round brown nut between its forepaws while the other leans…A dark sea lion raises its head and chest as it hauls out of shallow surf onto a pebble shore, with a hazy headland across the grey sea.A song thrush stands on frosty grass in front of a bare, berry-dotted hedgerow, positioned on the right with open blurred space to the left.A bronze-brown skink emerges from a gap in a lichen-covered dry-stone wall, its head raised above the stones.A red fox stands partly out of a dark earth den beneath a mossy, fern-covered bank, staring toward the camera amid damp soil and fallen leaves.An adult mottled grey seal nuzzles a fluffy cream-white pup on a pebble beach, with a calm grey sea and pale horizon behind them and open water to the right.A grey squirrel forages on short grass near a tangled hedgerow, positioned on the right side of the frame with open meadow grass to the left.A small brown vole with dark eyes and fine whiskers stands on a moss-covered fallen branch, holding several long green grass strands in its mouth; ferns and…A brown hare crouches with its head down among damp grasses on the right side of a wide meadow, with open grassland and a softly blurred hedgerow behind it.A taupe-and-white rat rests its chin on the rounded rim of a blush felt bed with dark brick-red lining, set against a softly blurred coral background with open…A steep, dark rocky mountain rises into layered grey cloud above a still tarn, with muted brown grasses, bracken and stones along the near shore.