Feeding Elk with beautiful light

The title of this blog is pretty self explanatory. Early this morning I got the pleasure of going out to Joe Watt Canyon to take some images of wildlife personal feeding a herd of Elk, It was small since the snow is melting, so only 400 or so elk were there. I'm not a morning person, I value sleep alot, but these photos made getting up early worth while.




The natural light was beautiful, Its normally not recommended to shoot into the sun, but it worked out OK here, I think. The drop hey off the back of a truck and the elk follow behind eating. And yeas I know the lens was dirty, did get a chance to clean it prior to using it this morning. Here is another shot from this morning.

These two bull almost challenged each other, but no such luck, That would have made a good image. This images shows one running from another after they stood an looked at each other for a while. Not that they have bad odds I think I maybe saw a total of ten Bulls to the rest being female. 40-1 odds, not too shabby. Alright that wasn't so funny, but I tried.

After they were done feeding I headed back to the office and took a couple photos of a man golfing, It struck me as odd since it was in the mid thirties this morning and he was golfing nevertheless. I guess if you want to play you take every opportunity you get. The rest of the day consisted of making the Internet work at work and getting my entries finalized for our company photo contest. Pioneer newspapers which owns the Daily Record owns 12 papers total. The contest is our annual one, and it was cut to four categories this year down from 10 last year. So the competition is gonna be tight. So I'm hoping for the best, since there are some great photographers at the other papers. So time will tell on How I do. After dropping the contest entries and the elk photos I headed home. Tonight is the only night this week without a night assignment so that was/is nice. Well That's about it. Here is a map to Joe Watt Canyon.

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