Right, so mostly I’m perfectly happy to cede ‘nature photography’ to the experts… To clarify, my definition of ‘nature photography’ is capturing all of the messy bio-stuff that lives in the places where I like to shoot pics. Rocks, landscape, and such are perfectly natural, and yet not ‘nature’.  Nature is alive.  Nature has an attitude…

So the young buck wanders into the Flynn territory looking  for a free leaf-lunch.  The HP is lounging out the back, and spying the critter, decides that the best way to alert the ‘artist’ (otherwise hard at work creating the next masterpiece) is to ring through on the phone system intercom.  Beep!  Beep!  Beeeep!!!  ‘What in the name of Jesus is that  awful noise’, I’m thinking.  Dude, this is totally interrupting my creative amazingness!  I wander upstairs, ‘Yes sweety, you rang?’.  ‘Shhhh!!!, look!’, whispers the HP.  Scan…  ‘Oh, yeah, hey, that’s a big one alright!’, sez ma.  ‘Get your camera!!!”, sez the HP.  I’m thinking, ‘Man…it’s another one of those crappy uncooperative wild animals’, but decide to stow the whine and carry on with the shooting of a few pics.

The image above was made at around noon(!!!) on August 9, 2009 using the Nikon D300 and the AF-S VR Zoom-NIKKOR 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED at 155mm, about 230mm effective in the DX.  The exposure was f/8 at 1/1000s, and ISO 400.  Minimal processing.

And of course it’s bloody-awful.  Damnable creature has no sense of style at all, and wanders back and forth along a margin between deadly dark shadow and brilliant sunlight, very cunningly keeping me from getting a proper shot in even light.  Well done animal, you win…this time!