When I show an image to people today I often get the question “Is that Photoshopped?”. I used to give a yes or no answer. After attending a talk by a very good professional photographer, with his permission I now give a different answer. It is exactly the way I saw it. Some days you…
Coming home from Thanksgiving at Jonna’s mothers in Central Oregon I decided to take the back road to get around the Redmond traffic and do a little deer hunting. I armed myself with my trusty 100-400mm L zoom lens on the 5D Mk II and let my wife do the driving.
I don’t think there has been a time that I have been across that road and not seen deer but most often they are over in the alfalfa fields which does not make for a real natural setting even though it is the natural place for them to be. If they aren’t in the fields they are on the other side of the road in the juniper and sage brush. While much harder to spot, it makes a much nicer image.
This is a mix of bucks and does. It is mating season over there and the bucks that are getting lucky have their does herded together. There are some pretty nasty fights between the bucks and you can see in the full size image one of the bucks in these images has blood on an antler and another is missing an eye. You won’t see it in any of the images in this post. They can get very aggressive and can get just as rough as a biker bar on a Saturday night.
I did quite a bit of hunting on the way home yesterday. It is breeding season for the Mule Deer over in Central and Eastern Oregon and I shot a large number of both bucks and does. The great thing about a camera is the ability to hunt anything year around. Here is a doe….
Happy Thanksgiving to all of my followers. Thank you for all of your kind comments on my images over the years. You are the reason that I keep shooting.
On Saturday Jonna and I attended the Fall 2011 meeting of the Nature Photographers Of The Pacific Northwest. I know their VP from the local photo club I belong to, EPS. Bob needed some help and Jonna worked the check in desk for print competition and I judged in the Digital Wildlife category. I’m guessing…
I will settle for 2nd out of 670 images.
Have you ever gotten to the end of the road and not wanted to turn around and go back? That is the way it was yesterday. The sounds of the Jays and squirrels, the intoxicating smell of a mixed species forest with fir, hemlock and cedar and the little details of nature all around you….
Young male Anna’s hummingbird taking a bath in my back yard fountain.
I entered the five fine art images that I have had made into gallery wraps in a contest at Digital Photo Pro. It will be interesting to see if anything comes of it.
I ordered a pair of gallery wraps to add to my collection. I opted to go portrait mode this time to allow for easier hanging in different locations. The two images are Autumn Raindrops and Reflection In Pond.