I Was So Mad!

[Old Dude]

I took Miss Daisy for her late afternoon walk along the river today. We had just left an old fellow that told me he and his dog had surprised a nice sized bear yesterday on this same trail when I heard a snort from the woods. After hearing it 3 or 4 more times and deciding I wasn't going to get to see it, I snorted back a couple times and it stopped. Deciding the brush was just too thick, we walked another 60 yards or so and I see white tail and a deer's backside as it jumps away from us. It runs a bit further into the woods and stops. All I can see is antlers! I raise the camera and snap 7 or 8 pics. Man, it sure looks nice in the viewfinder! The antlers are so big, the autofocus has no problem picking it out among the branches between us. The buck finally runs away and I quickly check the pics on the LCD. $#@#$!!!!! The pics were almost black It hits me then...I still have the settings in manual mode and set for when I was trying to take hummingbird shots in bright light Not sure what I said, but it wasn't rated PG, I am sure
I came home and adjusted the exposure 'till I could make out the deer. This is why the shots are so noisy ( grainy ). Sorry for these but man he sure was beautiful and I wanted to share him. I guess it could have been worse...I could have left the lens cap on

 

[Crowfriend]

I think they are wonderful! They gots a mood and that's what I like.

 

[tamrock]

Would a hug help ya feel a little better? Sill there not all that bad. If only I got a perfect shot of all the things I've encountered. That morning I went on a bike ride on the trail that goes along the Bear river in Wyoming, I was just coming to a bridge that crossed the river when I saw this buck stepping out on the other side of the river. I just couldn't get the camera out fast enough and turned on and focus in on this buck who never had a clue I was there before I could get what I saw as a beautiful shot of him just crossing a river without a care in the world. I only posted the doe and fawn I saw and not this one of my little exploration that morning. I also missed an opportunity of 3 sand hill cranes in perfect light fly right over my head.

 

[Old Dude]

Lol. While I was talking to the old fellow, an eagle flew upriver behind him. If he hadn't been there, I would have tried getting some shots of it and would have seen my settings then. Oh well, getting to see it was nice. 4 or 5 weeks ago I saw a bigger bodied 6 point there. Wonder how big he is now

 

[DizzyDigger]

That's a gorgeous buck OD!

Hope he gets edumacated, real quick, otherwise he won't keep that nice
rack til the end of your deer season.

Had a go at a couple of them, and was able to reduce the noise level
a bit:

 

[Old Dude]

Ah Yeah, much better! Thank you for the pm and offering to fix them a bit! I actually adjusted them with windows 10 instead of my editing software.

 

[releventchair]

With the exception of the bright green ,your pics may not be too different from what your subject sees.
Nice pics regardless.

 

[cjon455]

That's an awesome group of shots of a nice big buck!

 

[kcm]

Sure glad this thread was still bouncing around out there. Has been quite busy these past few days and I missed this one.

OD, great story, and still great pics!!

 

[RustyGold]

Beautiful shots!