Hello
One of the great things about photography is breaking a few rules from time to time - now don’t start me on the ”There are no rules in photography” debate, I’ll save that for later.
Anyway as someone who does gets paid for their images, well sometimes, I should only show off the finished, highly polished, 0.0001% of files that sit on my hard-drive!
But sometimes life provides a moment of excitement that although the image isn’t going to win any prizes, is possibly worth sharing. And this is one. It’s a massive crop, and by that I mean I’ve kind of zoomed in on the interesting part by getting rid of most of the image. (this would have required a lens of about 800mm to fill the frame like this) It’s a bit blurry up close, but then it was getting dark, hand held, and taken through the highly camera friendly optical properties of the car windscreen, of which I had carefully parked, hazards on etc!!!! 8^) Actually, it doesn’t look to bad on the web, perhaps I should have kept quiet!!!

“Dear oh Dear”
I’ve seen the deer as little dots at the bottom of the field behind our house, but this was much closer - I’m not sure who was more surprised, me or the Deer - it didn’t hang around for long!
Take Care, Steven

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2008-05-2 at 12:28 am
Kym
The photo does look rather clear for all that. The way she is stilled in front of the stand of silvery trees somehow adds to the shyness of the scene.
2008-05-2 at 3:25 am
visuallens
Well Done! The quality of the photo is not bad after a massive crop.The deer is standing out too because of the lighting against the dark background.
2008-05-2 at 6:08 am
stevendraper
Great to see you both back again, and Thanks for the comments.
Yes, there is just a little back lighting catching the fur on the head and back of the deer, otherwise it would have been a really flat shot. How lighting is sooo important.
The crop is about 1600 pixels across the top which is fine as a starting point for the web, might just squeeze a reasonable small print too if I’m careful!
Steven