Another image taken from a set I shot while doing a sunrise photo shoot at about 12,000 ft amsl along the eastern slope of Mt. Evans, Colorado. After doing a landscape shoot, I spotted a herd of mountain goats working their way up the eastern slope of Mt Evans.
After taking some shots of some "kid" goats, I worked my way up an area where the heard was moving to. Within 15 minutes, the heard or approximately 40 was lounging, eating, and doing what mountain goats do. I began shooting images of the herd and, as always when amongst these guys, very careful not to startle them. This image was taken as I was sitting on top of a small boulder imbedded into the mountainside...looking to the north, the mtn goat came up to me and gave a curious look and what appeared to be a smile. For this image, I believe I was using a Nikon D300, Nikkor 24-70. As always, comments are welcomed and thanks for looking!
DonGut wrote:
Great colour and I love the DOF in this one. He must have been quite close with a 24-70!!!! Don
Don, these guys (and gals) get very comfortable with humans too easy. Just have to show respect the fact they are wild animals and "we" are in their habitat. Yup...this guy got pretty close!
