Fawn Whitetail Deer and Doe

This photograph shows a playful fawn whitetail deer getting rambunctious with its mother.  I was positioned across a creek and the two deer stayed in front of me for about 5 minutes.  The doe was trying to eat and the fawn was continuously scampering about and sometimes leaping onto the doe's back.  It was a lot of fun to watch.  This happened about a half hour after sunrise but the deer were under a thick canopy of trees.  There wasn't much light there so it was a good test for the new Canon 1DX MkII camera and a very high ISO setting.  400mm lens, 1/400 second at f/2.8, ISO 16000.

There certainly was noise in the image but that was reduced quite a bit during the raw processing.  I wouldn't make a large print, though, unless the viewing distance was expected to be fairly long.  Anyway, it was great to capture such a fun image.