Kansas White-tail

Very nice buck. He looks like he has been around for awhile. I like the habitat background.

Nice color in this image. I like the sharpness you have in this one, along with a good pose. The BG sure looks like Kansas. Thanks for sharing.

Excellent capture, Rob. In a sense I would be wishing the out of focus wooden posts were not there, but on the other hand I agree it lends a real sense of Kansas place. I appreciate the quality of light and depth of field control on the buck.

Wouldn't change a thing, very nicely done! Love the setting and the beautiful pose on this impressive subject. As good as it gets Rob.

Thanks everybody. While it would have been nice to not have the posts, they also lend something to the background and feel "right" to me. On a side note, this buck was standing on the wrong side of the no hunting line. A hunter could have stepped from his car and tagged the buck; a few yards to the left is a no hunting zone, but this buck was in a public hunting zone. The day before, he was just south of here, safely within the no hunting zone :).

What a neck; that must be some strong buck! I quite like this, the proud stance, the natural color scheme. In the field I might have opted for a little less DOF to minimize the effect of the BG tree on the right, or alternatively move a bit to the right to get it out of the frame. The man-made fence poles are a bit obvious and, to me, distracting.

Vincent, I tried moving a bit to the right, but that brought the foreground clutter into the photo, and the clutter looks worse to me than the branches.

Nice shot of a beautiful animal. The surroundings/BG say farmland all over which is the most common habitat for whitetails. Well done.