Richmond park deer rut 2009

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Originally Posted by pressld2

I reached the image limit in the last post but here's a few more:

Some lovely autumn colours in the park...



A few young fallow deer...



Not for the faint-hearted but I wanted to include this shot as it really brings it home that while the rut is a nice opportunity for us to practice our photography skills, for the deer it's a very serious business...



Don't think he'll be taking part any more this year and if that gets infected it could kill him.

Finally a couple of more experimental shots. A number of wildlife pros - Chris Weston and, more recently, Andy Rouse spring to mind - have published images with lots of motion blur. There have been quite a few winners and commendeds in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition too. I've never been sure about this technique. Sometimes I think it works well but I often look at such pictures and think "I'd have deleted that without a second thought". But anyway, faced with low light levels and some fast moving animals I thought I'd give it a go...



What do you think? Personally I quite like these two but I'd be very interested to hear other opinions.

Dave P.

I must agree that it appears to be the trend to have what I think are out of focus photos winning top photography comps and I also think of hundreds similar that I have deleted! If I had to choose Dave I would much prefer to look at your original wonderful shots than these two motion blur ones but that is just a personal preference

I found this about Richmond very interesting as my daughter lives near there and keep saying I will visit

Linda