I see you
I was hiking through Shenandoah National Park while I had my I-Pod playing music because the park has a decent bear population and playing music was my way of letting any bear that was nearby there was a human around and they generally don't like human sounds. The trail was quite being in that I hadn't passed anyone in about the last twenty minutes or so when I stopped and this whitetail doe was about twenty feet ahead of me. Usually when I encounter deer they are gone a second or two later but this deer was just looking at me curiously while my I-Pod was blaring Led Zeppelin's "When the levee breaks". I turned off the I-Pod and I had the choice of trying to rummage my Nikon 610 which was in my pack wrapped in a weatherproof gear bag because there was a chance of rain that day or going for my cellphone which was in my pocket so I went for the cellphone shot. I was surprised that the deer showed little fear which I think is partly that there is little traffic in the park and since it is a National Park there is no hunting and even outside the boundary of the park is mostly low density farm country. So I managed to walk within about ten feet of this deer to get this shot.
I see you
I was hiking through Shenandoah National Park while I had my I-Pod playing music because the park has a decent bear population and playing music was my way of letting any bear that was nearby there was a human around and they generally don't like human sounds. The trail was quite being in that I hadn't passed anyone in about the last twenty minutes or so when I stopped and this whitetail doe was about twenty feet ahead of me. Usually when I encounter deer they are gone a second or two later but this deer was just looking at me curiously while my I-Pod was blaring Led Zeppelin's "When the levee breaks". I turned off the I-Pod and I had the choice of trying to rummage my Nikon 610 which was in my pack wrapped in a weatherproof gear bag because there was a chance of rain that day or going for my cellphone which was in my pocket so I went for the cellphone shot. I was surprised that the deer showed little fear which I think is partly that there is little traffic in the park and since it is a National Park there is no hunting and even outside the boundary of the park is mostly low density farm country. So I managed to walk within about ten feet of this deer to get this shot.