Hope you guys enjoyed the picture of the deer. There will be more of them to come. I will also be putting some up in the Visions Galley this next week.
I have been going out to Round Valley and shooting pics of the deer for the last couple of days. We are seeing a lot of good sized bucks out there. Yesterday morning we saw the biggest buck I have ever seen. He was at least a five point and might have been a 6. He was quite a ways off from us and we were looking into the sun, so it was hard to tell for sure how big his rack was. We tried to get a better vantage point to look at him, but as we repositioned, he vanished into the brush. We are calling him the Phantom Buck. As my uncle said, he didn’t get that big by being easily seen. I’m going to continue to look for him so I can capture him on film.
I have got some nice shots of does and a couple other good buck shots. January is the best month of the year to see and photograph big bucks in the Eastern Sierra. They are on their wintering grounds, aren’t to shy of humans in trucks, and they haven’t lost their racks yet. It gets harder in Feb because they begin to loose their antlers then.
And speaking of them not being to shy, the buck in the picture the last couple of days was only about 20 feet away from me. And at one point he was only about 6-7 feet away. He was totaly at ease with me staying in the truck and taking pictures of him. I got some nice shots when he was real close, but I made a mistake and he is totaly out of focus :angry:
I want to wish everyone a very happy new year. And I hope your new years eve is safe and enjoyable.
Talk to you all next year 
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