These are from this past summer in Southern New Mexico.
#1 is a sweet Antelope fawn that I had worked hard to get close to but her protective mother would not let me get within a quarter mile. Then I found the fawn alone one day at first light and that was my chance, what a pleasure it was to be trusted and spend a couple hours shooting her.
#2 is a large and spectacularly marked Black-tailed Rattlesnake. I ran across him a few days after the fawn shots. (yes, they are green) This guy was all business and held his strike pose for a full 15 minutes.
I liked the contrast of emotions these two shots evoked. C&C welcome, and thanks for looking.
Two beauties with markedly different reasons for using a 500mm lens. That shy antelope hides behind a spiky looking plant in hopes of hiding and the snake uses its rattle to warn but in fact only draws the photogrher closer and that brings on the strike pose...really well dne. You could have teased us by taking the last zero off the lens in the last...no THAT would have been impressive!
Eric
eyelaser wrote:
Two beauties with markedly different reasons for using a 500mm lens. That shy antelope hides behind a spiky looking plant in hopes of hiding and the snake uses its rattle to warn but in fact only draws the photogrher closer and that brings on the strike pose...really well dne. You could have teased us by taking the last zero off the lens in the last...no THAT would have been impressive!
Eric
Thanks for the comment Eric. I had the snakiest summer I've ever had, and most were shot with a 70-200mm, but I liked the 500mm best on this one. I have some FF @ 24mm, but on those I had my cam on a monopod sled I made and used a release cable
Jim
Nov 09, 2012 at 03:22 PM
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Both of these are super shots Jim! As you mentioned the contrast between the two could not be stronger. The rattler is a stunning pose, that's the kind of stuff we dream of
