Big Horn Ewe

Sometimes it's easier than it should be. Capturing a bighorn sheep on camera shouldn't be as easy as driving down the road and looking out the window. 

On my way to St. Elmo for an afternoon photo walk I spotted this ewe out in a field by the road. I pulled over after driving past so as not to spook her and proceeded to take many shots of her moving around the field and eating. With the snow I really wanted an HDR image so towards the end of the shoot I gave a kissing sound to stop her. She stood staring at me long enough to get off three shots.

I do like this image a lot, a good focal point for the eye, some interesting light in the field behind her, and the depth of field, while not as short as I would like, is still shallow enough to make her stand out from the foreground and background. There just isn't enough context here, not enough visual interest to make this print worthy.

Two Fawns

These two fawns kept wrestling and running around and finally stopped to rest long enough for me to capture them.

There's just enough motion blur around the ears and face to show they are still goofing around and I really like the composition and the pastel colors in the background. And of course, who doesn't think fawns are adorable?

Even so, this picture is cropped quite a bit because of a fence on the left and without at least a little more context I couldn't deem it print worthy.

Playing grown-up

I really like this image. Shot as part of the "Magical Morning" series this photo is heavily cropped. I normally like to capture the surrounding terrain for context which I did here but it didn't work. After cropping in to what you see here, adding a sepia tone, and vignetting, I think this picture is much more interesting.

I particularly like how the focus is located where the two sets of antlers meet with just enough motion blur to let us know this was an action shot.