I love the greens here. Seems the storms have done a good job. The back portion of the elk, due to its light colour and positioning, attracts more attention. If the body would have been parallel to the image plane, then the bright hind portion would not have appeared. The Velvet looks lovely. Would love to see a head and antlers composition from you. Overall, I like this image.
ISO 1600? It seems you are doing a much better job with the high ISOs of the 40D than I can. :-(
I really like the colors, pose, and composition of this one Steve. ISO 1,600! I'm impressed with the quality. Did you have to do any noise reduction here?