Closeup pictures of a hare

When I visited Vienna some years ago I spent a lot of time in a park taking pictures of birds and this hare that I found there. It was a nice summer day and I could get pretty close to this rabbit. My iniial plan was to take some pictures of birds that I found there in the park but when the hare came so clos to my location of course I also took some pictures of it. I like Urban wildlife photography in Vienna since it is a lot easier to get clos to the animals because they are used to humans and getting closer to them therefore is a lot easier. When it is a hot summer day like this ist is also easy in Vienna to get some cold drinks and ice cream at a nearby shop. When going for photo trips in the wild you always need to prepare and take something with you.

Hare in the Park in Vienna. Picture: Florian Glechner.

I am always amazed how close you can get to animals in urban wildlife photography. Most of the time when I am out in the nature it is a lot more difficult to get that close because the animals flee so much earlier when they think they are threatened. Due to several parks, vieneyards, meaddows, cementaries and spots at the danube and other smaller rivers Vienna is a very nice spot for wildlife photography, eventhough most of the people wouldn't probably think of that due to it being a big city.

It came really close and also checked us up. Picture: Florian Glechner.