While photographing waterfowl on the one of the slimmer branches of the Lagoon
I heard a rustle in the leaves behind me, and so I turned and saw a mother deer
and her two offspring. I was overjoyed to be having a chance to photograph
deer in the daytime with my telephoto lens, and as I began to snap pictures the
deer looked on suspiciously. One of the offspring was grazing behind the other,
and it heard the shutter of my camera and craned its neck over the other to see
what all the fuss was about. I thought the pose was perfect and they held it for
about ten seconds: long enough for me to get a correct aperture, shutter speed,
and focus. Hence, a arbitrary moment turned into a human scene of comradery and
the intimacy of family.
The top photo was photoshopped because it was originally shot in
'raw'. I tried to make the deer more red and prominent by blurring the
foreground and brightening/saturating the deer, but now I think it looks
like the deer are popping out too much. Either way, quaint pic.
Winnetka
Taken in February 2012
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