Home on the Range

Hi all! It's funny to me which images become particularly (and usually subjectively) personal to photographers. This one grew on my quickly.

I was out in our acreage photographing a resident chickadee with Josiah last week and noticed a family of deer making their way across the field to the north. We pretty much never point our cameras in that direction, because the Canadian Rockies stretch from the NW all the way to the SE from our property, and they are pretty spectacular most days. But the light was SO sweet (the sun was just about to go behind the mountains at the end of the day), and this young mule deer looked so cute, and the chickadee was elsewhere at the moment...

I'm glad I quickly relocated for a couple of frames before returning to our feathered friend, and I hope you enjoy this one as well.

Please view LARGER if you have the time! I took the time to switch over to live view to make sure I had the focus nailed so the detail is pretty sweet for this distance I think.

Nikon D600
Nikkor AF-S 500mm f/4D IF-ED
ISO 200
1/640sec @ f/5
+0.3 EV
Tripod mounted

Processing Notes:
Literally straight from conversion to very slight curves adjustment in CS PS5, resized, cropped from top and bottom slightly (full frame width), light sharpening and saved for web.