Ever seen a Red Deer?

[John Bennett]

Well neither had I. Was so looking forwards to getting a few of these.

Young ones sparring.

Think the Buck in the back has a nice rack?

[dusty montgomery]

Aren’t European Stags red? Deer cousins, perhaps? I don’t know, just a thought. Either way, that is amazing. Have you said in the past that you were using your 200mm for these?

Dusty

[Mike McKeown]

Well where do you think the fly tying material producers get their stuff??? There have to be purple, yellow, green, chartreuse, orange, etc… almost any color deer, all kept well away from the public’s prying eyes…

Great photos, but is that vetting on the right of the first pic, what’s going on there.

[John Bennett]

Dusty I beleive your right.

[john michael white]

Nice John!

[Zach Matthews]

John –

What’s up with that first picture?

[John Bennett]

Zach are you referring to the branches in the background?

No idea what kind of scrub/bush/immature tree they may be,
but in a nutshell thats undergrowth, thats buried under 4 to 6 feet
of snow.

The image is partially backlit…Sun was somewhere around
10 or 11 oclock..Hence the snowbank directly behind the bucks
in deep shadow, that to may be making it hard to distinguish the features in the smaller 750 x 400 image displayed.

Long winded way of saying this image is as shot. I have zero
qualms about cloning out some things when needed/desired
(so long as the end product is only for display/print), the originals
if they have an offending branch for example stay as is for editorial purposes.

I know you generallly prefer people keep dimensions smaller
but heres a 1024 x 750. I think it will help a bit.

/edit add
thought to mention that they are sparring/standing on a frozen lake, about 20 feet off shore. Hence the difference in depth of snow between the foreground and background. Thought it made for a cool back drop.

[Shannon Drawe]

Better to spar than be sparred. shannon

[David Anderson]

Nice shots John – well timed as usual…

Dear are becoming a pest here in eastern Australia – there’s even a bunch of them in the big national parks that surround Sydney.

I ran into a mob of them once about 3 hours west of Sydney, but of course had no camera.. >:(

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