Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Buck Whitetail Deer in Sunbeam

This buck whitetail deer was looking for does during the November rut and had temporarily lost some of his typical caution.  I had been watching him for some time from a distance but he kept mostly to the shadows.  As he got closer, though, he stepped into a sunbeam that lit his head and antlers very nicely.  His antlers have 8 points, fairly good mass and nice shape but he is not huge.  I like the pose and the crooked tree trunk in the background seems to frame him.
400mm lens, 1/500 second at f/3.5, ISO 400.

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