After the Swim

[Arthur Morris]

As the bison were swimming across the river (see Denise's image below), the sun broke through faintly so I moved well to our right and grabbed a spot on a rock thinking that the three bison would go straight ahead and cross the road. When each hesitated at the edge of the river to consider the crowd that had gathered, I created this tight head portrait. Then came the excitement. This animal turned left and walked by me no more than three feet away. I chose to sit rather than run and it walked right by me. Whew. I did choose to vacate my perch before the next one came along. I did make on pretty cool image at 135mm as this one approached.

Image created with the Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II and the 1.4X II TC (hand held at 280mm) with the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1/3 stop: 1/1250 sec. at f/4. (I blew the exposure as the image out of camera was well underexposed but I recovered nicely.)

[denise ippolito]

Artie, I remember that shoot as one of the highlights of the trip. I was so thrilled to see them go in the water and trying to capture them as they crossed. You looked like a pro-oh that's right you are a pro:p. Anyway nice close up image, the tongue is a nice bonus. Sharp and well exposed. I may have tried to give that little extra room at the top to the bottom if it were mine. Nicely done.

[Paul Lagasi]

Killer sharp... not sure I could have stayed sitting if one of these was 3 feet away. Does give the sense of really being close...TFS

[Sid Garige]

Very nice image Artie. Like the way tongue cleaning up the nostrils. Very nice image with great techs.

[Harshad Barve]

terrific image as usual Guruji , excellent details and that tongue is Killer
TFS

[Ken Watkins]

Artie,

Stupendous the tongue makes this very special indeed. Were you on foot that close?

[Arthur Morris]

Artie, Stupendous the tongue makes this very special indeed. Were you on foot that close?

No, I was on butt :) When he passed by I got on foot fast....

[Robert Amoruso]

The tongue is the frosting on the cake.

Don't get in front of them as you are not much of a deterrent and they probably won't walk around you.:p

[Rachel Hollander]

Artie - Love the details in the hair (or is it fur?), the eye and, of course, the tongue just makes this shot. Better be careful, you don't want people to start referring to you as a "touron" for getting so close. ;)

TFS,
Rachel

[Roman Kurywczak]

Really nice details in the fur Artie! Nice job waiting for the tounge action! That is one big animal to be that close to!!!

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks Roman. It was only big if you consider bigger than a car to be big..... He never gave me a second look, or even a second smell.

[DanWalters]

Great detail in the bison. Like all the grass on the head and the wet coat. The tongue really adds to the image as well!