Calm before the Storm

Gallery: WildlifePosted August 22, 2010182 views4 comments

This was taken a few days ago and there is another smaller bull with this one. They will be buddies a few more weeks and then the rut will make them competitors for the cows. This was taken in north Idaho.

50D 100-400
F5
ISO 1250
1/250
FL 130

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4 comments

Comment posted by Mauro Pasquero on August 22, 2010 at 4:01 AM

Nice shot, Jack! These animals are always very impressive.
Mauro

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Comment posted by John Tobias on August 22, 2010 at 8:11 AM

Nice image. I like the way you have the bull placed in the environment. Thanks for sharing.

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Comment posted by Lon Sharp on August 22, 2010 at 9:54 PM

Very appealing image of a bull moose as typically seen in appropriate habitat. Given his dark shadows and the whites in the background aspens I think you managed exposure very well!

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Comment posted by Vincent Grafhorst on August 23, 2010 at 12:18 AM

Last year I when I happened to be in Maine, I was hoping to photograph some moose, but unfortunately we did not get even see a single one (only dead ones on the back of hunters' trucks...). So I would have loved an opportunity like this of a nice specimen in a nice habitat setting! Exposure indeed looks good Jack, but I do wish there would have been more BG separation, all those white tree trunks behind the subjects head and through its antlers is a bit distracting IMO.

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