I love taking photographs of wild animals.  I guess you could say that whatever I "shoot" still lives and runs free. I am not a fan of hunting.  So, in this hunting season in my area I am honoring deer!  The deer in the very top image is from around my home, she wanted in my garden badly!  I call the image, "All Ears."  The other three images are deer that roam around a lake located near Hwy. 395 in Northern CA.  The deer in the lower center image was intently watching me as I lifted my small telephoto lens.  She was quite spooked so I can only guess that she knew what a gun was and had been spooked by one before.  Don't think that animals don't know these things because they do.  I made the mistake once of photographing some owls in a nest near my home, they were probably 100 feet away, and in the morning the whole family was gone!  I could only guess that the bigger lens I had switched to had scared them away and that was a lesson for me.  I try hard not to violate the space of the wild animals I photograph and this deer was actually very far away.  After staring hard at me she turned and trotted everybody further away.

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Introduction

I love the way the camera sees the world, it can be so unique, so different than what is actually there when I take the photograph. My goal is to take photographs that show the world the way I see it,  using the unique photographic abilities that I have, the technical abilities of my camera, and my digital darkroom skills to output the best photograph "equivalent" that I can; a photograph that is wholly representative of my vision in photography and art.  I am not a documentarian or a photo journalist, I edit, delete, and change as needed.  My goal is photographic art and there is no "right" or "wrong" involved in that.


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