Fooled me. Twice!

A few days ago, I was on a walk through the countryside when I saw a pheasant. It disappeared into the barley. I put my camera in program mode and the lens at its longest focal length of 90mm and hoped for it to reappear. Instead I heard a sharp “Taktak” behind me and when I looked round, I stared into the eyes of a roe deer. It had jumped out of the cornfield onto the middle of the road. After that brief stare it jumped into the barley and jumped up three times to see if I was following her. At the third time I snapped my shutter…half a second too late! But at least I had a nice shot of the barley.

Yesterday I was at the same location taking photos of the barley when I heard rustling behind me. There she was again. She had almost bumped into me. She turned sharp left and ran at high speed along the fence, jumped it and crossed the street to disappear into the barley again. I had a 25mm lens on and offcentre focus, so the shot is cropped, and focus is somewhere in the trees. But at least I got something :-)

 

Canon EOS 300V / Canon Rebel Ti, Canon EF 28-90mm f4-5.6 II, Kodak Gold 200 (expired)

 

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