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Lucky Big Sky Country
Here “Lucky” the Black Cat is checking out a well worn mud/rock flap off an f-250 pickup. He no doubt is considering the significance of the statement. I’m not sure what he was looking at. It just seemed like a proper time to compose, focus and click away.
We take very good care of our cats so don’t worry about the temps up here mid-winter. All of them have gone through -30 before in many previous Wyoming Winters. They are 6 years old and have a place to get out of the weather.
A fairly famous scientist, Carl Linnaeus named the domestic cat Felis catus within the scientific naming system. Carl Linnaeus (1707 –1778), AKA with his ennoblement title as Carl von Linné , was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician who formalized binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. The system we use today. He named all the easy stuff done first lololol.
All animals are scientifically named, (and thus grouped with other similar creatures) within his naming system. He’s a good google if your into scientific names to find out they SYSTEM. . It’s one of my weaknesses but I do know the language of paleontology . I take to scientific names like the proverbial peas to carrots…. As long as it’s a fossil 😜. This tendency in ingrained to all students of Paleontology, somewhere along the road during their education. Good to know if you ever want to pursue a career in Paleontology lol
Location: Bliss DInosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands (Wyotana)
Lucky Big Sky Country
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Deer Watching Pronghorn Crossing
With several things going on in this mid-summer capture, you might focus on the Pronghorn diving under the three wire fence. The highlight on which are as bright as I’ve seen lol. It was just the perfect angle. I’m parked about 300 yards down the road. The mother and two fawns were in a hurry to leave my proximity as I just had come to a stop. Pronghorn’s tend to move when you stop. Changes in motion trigger them to move in response as I see it. If your still all the time or moving all the time, your less likely to spook them. Vehicle photography of Pronghorn is much easier than on foot lolol. These American native long distance relative of the giraffe does not appreciate the human form (maybe it’s just me”…😜)
So… Pronghorn almost always go under fences. I read once where they can jump 15 feet high. (I have not see this). I have seen them go 6 feet. I have less than 10 images of Pronghorn Jumping Fences. I have many more of them going under fences.
This is however, the ONLY image I have of a doe deer “Watching the Technique” clearly displayed here used by countless generations of Pronghorn. Deer of course tend to jump fences.
I can’t tell you how much I want summer back. As I post this midwinter, there is either mud or ice in the backcountry. Iced / melted then frozen snow drifts are really bumpy. Mud is a problem this time of yearI try not to exacerbate by making ruts with my Raptor.
Location: near the Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands (Wyotana)
Title: Deer Watching Pronghorn Crossing
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The Greatest Pleasure in life, is doing the things people say we cannot do. #MotivationMonday -Walter Bagehot t.co/Y7Y0TMjvaU (via Twitter twitter.com/youthrunnola/status/780431201656041473)
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QuoteoftheDay 'Good ideas do not come to a mind that is filled with negativity.' - His Holiness Younus AlGohar
Perspective Geometry of Nature
I drive a lot of backcountry during sunrise and sunset. Every time I get a chance, I walk about and see what I can see. . The natural curves and angles that I run into create a fabric through which I shoot the back ground. The curve on the branch, approaching the curve of the hill. The crossed branches drawing your eye to the center of the visual tunnel this creates. All fodder for my photon capture boxes 👀.
The branches here form a natural letter x (which i have several of now). I am always looking for natural letters in my walks. Some days I cover WAY more ground than others. It depends of the weather of course and the lighting. If I am actually working, I made a decision several hours before to be in place for the sunrise/sunset. Good photography requires that you actually be there with a camera when the light is worthy of chasing. Having a map in my head of where all the “attractions” are helps but random meetings like this stop me in my tracks.
Random backcountry captures happen because of paying dues. You have to be there with a camera in your hand to get some of those moments in space and time. They are fleeting, you often only have moments to capture them before the light changes. The more you carry a camera (s) around, the more cool captures your going to get. 📷
Location: Bliss Dinosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands (Wyotana)
Title: Perspective Geometry of Nature
QuoteoftheDay 'Good ideas do not come to a mind that is filled with negativity.' - His Holiness Younus AlGohar
Pronghorn Fawns Incoming Fast
I’ve taken a lot of Pronghorn Images. These are all 2 or 3 month old fawns running at and eventually run right by me. They didn’t care at all about my Jeep Grand Cherokee running with stinky noisy me in it. I’m just another grazing animal to the wild things up here. At some point last summer they have seen my particular rig drive by so many times, they just don’t care about it. It’s obviously not a threat. With the Pronghorn, I have to start fresh each spring as they may or may not be the same animals on my ground. I couldn’t tell without some markings to distinguish them and there are too many to keep track of lol.
Just prior to this image, I was watching/photographing a family group up the hill these guys are screaming down. The adults really didn’t scatter but something spooked these hoodlums. I think they just decided to go for a run as their species is prone to do. To this day, this timeline (which has numerous good photos) are the only images I have of these magnificent animals running at me.
There were a couple more fawns in this group that are out of frame. This was a pretty good sized nursery with 7 fawns it appeared. There were not 5 adults. Someone was off or several had twins. This is the second of two finished images from that encounter. This was mid-summer this year 2019.
2×3 feet at full resolution.
Location: Bliss DInosaur Ranch, Wyoming/Montana borderlands. *Wyotana)
Title: Pronghorn Fawns Incoming Fast