A Gold Mine

Well I guess sometimes it pays to be a bit run down and too worn out to do anything outdoors. As a result I am sitting here at my computer screen looking over past photo shoots for pictures that I may have overlooked. As it turns out 2009 and 2010 were fairly chaotic years, my wife had been diagnosed with cancer and we were forced to massively downsize and prepare for a relocation. In addition there was some chaos in the stock photo industry as well, Getty had purchased iStock and was busy wrecking the place while at the same time software and digital camera technology were improving with the speed of light. That might account for why many of these images have never been processed and uploaded anywhere.

But I was thinking at least I would have uploaded the very best ones to Alamy but as I was looking back through my photo submissions at there I noticed one missing picture in particular… this vertical shot of these two bucks. This of course got me quite curious as to why it was missing and I discovered that basically the entire year was missing. In fact three years are missing! Well anyway, these were shot with my 10 megapixel Canon 40D, which was brand new at the time, and an amazing piece of equipment as far as I was concerned! Fortunately back up disk technology was also improving and these were all saved and tucked safely away for me to find them this week 🙂

I still vividly remember the day I shot these pictures, a beautiful morning following a week of late winter storms. I was hiking through the woods and as I came over a little hill there were these two bucks grazing on scrub oak bark. They spotted me and much to my surprise they moved together and approached me for a closer look. Of course I hiked in those woods all the time so those particular deer were used to my presence, but I was amazed at how the scene unfolded. They moved together and walked towards me finally stopping at a safe distance and posing in this perfect pose. I could not have gotten people to cooperate like this on my best day!

Well anyway, This picture and many more are now for sale on my website, you can see all the snowy deer in my new gallery devoted specifically to deer in the snow!