White-tail buck

[John Mack]

This image was created in The Great Smoky Mountains National Park on 11/29/18 at 4:31PM. Image processed in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Hand held, Small crop.

Canon 5D MarkIV
Sigma 150-600 Contemporary
600mm
ISO 20,000
f6.3
1/200sec

[Gabriela Plesea]

Hello John,
Whew, ISO 20.000... a warm welcome to the (very) high ISO club :cheers:

Thank you for this... Mmmm...I much prefer your recent two posts though, this is awesome from behaviour POV and nice detail in the (wet) coat of the subject... but maybe FG and BG a bit too busy? Although I must admit the buck stands out nicely, and is pretty well isolated from the surroundings. Nothing you could do about it, such is Mother Nature...

I do think you have covered so many aspects of the species behaviour - so very well done! Maybe try flip this horizontally and see if it adds more impact...it's fun to experiment :w3

Kind regards,