Big Horn

I was awake at 4am today so got up and made my way up to a place in the Jura mountains that held a good head of chamois last year, I have a photographer coming over later this week for some 1-1 so have been doing a few miles looking for some wildlife to shoot for when the guest arrives-today i walked miles up hill and down dale but it was worth it,The chamois were there in 2 groups totalling about 20-lots of babies as well and to my suprise there were 2 ibex in with them, 1 i had shot a lot of last year-a half grown male and with him a large mature male-I love these guys they are soooo impressive, In 18 months i have only seen 3 different ones on 5 occasions so each time is something special-I will be back tomorrow and hope he is still around

Canon 1D MKIII 500f4+1.4x 1/100 @ F5.6 evaluative +1/3

Impressive beast Dave {are they dangerous to humans?}.

A fine view of this chap, and those horns are spectacular!!

Although the legs are partly obscured, and there is room for the virtual legs at the bottom, i feel that the oof area is a bit too well-defined in this instance.

Fine shot though, and hope you get some more opportunities

Alan

Hi Dave nice shot of the animal cannot make up my mind about the bottom of the picture.
John
Aberdeen

Impressive specimen, Dave. It sounds like one would have to go into training to go out with you for the day

Hi Phil
Not at all. These guys were a 20 min walk from the car-not too strenuous, I carried on for a couple of hours tracking some other ibex/chamois,There are a few lynx in the area and i have seen foot prints and scat but not managed to see any, I want my guests to get maximum photography for little effort so i do the footwork so that they do not have to
Regards
Dave

Wow stunning, these guys must get some serious neck ache! What are the up right things? Dock's?

Hi paul
Dont know what they are but they are a pain-got some nice stuff but they spoil the image-across the face/body-time to get the lawn mower out

A very impressive set of horns there. Great shot.



Paul

Hello Dave
Great capture of an impressive chap. I think a selection of the foreground, and then tone it down, would improve the overall image.
Best wishes
Phil

Hi Dave,
Very nice capture of this very impressive creature , not sure about the foreground
but still a very nice shot.

Kind regards
Andy...

Hi Dave,

I like the shot,with the bottom part gives the feel of peering over something to catch a glimpse,which is probably what you did,and how most people would get to see one.

Stu.

Impressive animal, Dave - FG is fine with me

Hi Dave

Handsome beast and a fine shot - although I also find the OOF FG a little strong!

David

Thanks for the comments, I think the problem is the sunny patch on the grass,without this the foreground would have blended in better

Dave

Just a slight crop off the foreground and you'll be left with a fine shot of this impressive looking beast.

Now that photo makes me run out of the office to catch those chaps in Slovenian mountains! It's a good looking photo, and I have nothing to complain about. Probably your idea to tone down sunny patch of grass is worth trying. Dave do you have a plan to go out in December when they root?

Cheers,
Marko

Hi Marko
I have been out looking for the rut in previous decembers, The snows have made it hard to locate them as they tend to move down the cliff sides where i cannot go-will try again this year-Thanks for the comments

Dave