Deer on the La Sal loop
My photo guidebook said it was possible to see deer along the La Sal Mountain Loop in the early morning and late afternoon. Well I was having fun with the 'slap stick' on my rental car (where you can 'manually' shift an automatic) on the mountain road with lots of switchbacks. Somehow I managed to see four does on the side of the road up ahead of me. Fortunately I had my 70-200 lens on one camera body along with the 1.4 extender. I stopped a hundred or so yards from them and grabbed the camera. I got several shots of them on the right side of the road and then drove up a little further, stopped and got out of the car but stayed behind the car door. They ambled across the road and I got this pose just before they went off into the brush. Another f/8 and Be There moment of the day.
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