Dry year for the Pronghorns

Each year I go up to Wyoming on a number of occasions to photograph Pronghorn antelope. Boy is this year ever dry compared to last year.

Last year when I was photographing at this same place here's how it looked.

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And here's how it looked this year.

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The same waterhole is basically just a wallow

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Have a good one. BB

Nice photos!

Very nice! Those are some of the best pronghorn photos I remember seeing. I've never taken a good one of them. I usually see them on Antelope Island, from the car. I've never been able to get out, get my gear ready and get close enough to get a good photo. But then again, I'm never out there for wildlife photos. I expect you must pick a spot and wait patiently to get photos like these?

It is a dry year for sure. We were riding Wasatch Crest in early June and last year, a wet year, we couldn't get up there until August. I think the wildflowers are going to be a bust.

Pronghorns are one of the toughest critters out there to photograph, as its very hard to get close if they are wild. If you can find a place where they are around people all the time and they have been raised that way, its kind of like taking elk photos in the Park.. But truly wild antelope are almost impossible for anyone unless one is will to put a lot of time and effort into setting up in a way that can beat their eyes. I would never get these photos unless I paid the price and put up a blind long before I intended to take photos. And that's what I do. Many of the photos I take are taken at 15-20 yards. But if the wind is not blowing and they can hear the shutter click, you get one photo and they are gone. If you notice the manes in some of those photos the wind was blowing hard, thus covering the camera noise, thus I could get more shots than just one.

I used my Olympus E-5 camera and my Zukio 300/2.8 lens

I live in Murray Utah. I think I read that you are from SLC if I'm correct. So we live close.

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And on occasion you even see a few hawks/eagles.

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Have a good one BB