Some antelope photos

[buglinbilly]

HAVE A GOOD ONE. BB

[ksbryan0]

Love the headshot in number 2. But I don't think they are all antelope...however the badger capture is really nice!

[Dylan8i]

agreed that badger is awesome.

[buglinbilly]

I thought that thing everyone is calling a badger, was a fawn antelope. Ha Ha

I got several pictures of that badger at about 60 or 80 yards as he headed my way. It was windy and I knew at that distance, I could get away with it, but I also knew that I kept taking photos with my Olympus E5, that I soon would scare him. I also had my point and shoot Panasonice FZ-100 right there and I thought about switching camreas as I knew I could take quite a few photos of him as he headed my way without him ever knowing what was happening. But I decided that I would just wait and take one shot and know that would be it with my Olympus and so that is what I did. I waited until he broke out of all the thick grass and cheatgrass which was just about 20 yards. He was coming right at me at a very fast pace, so that is the shot I ended up with. I am not satisfied with it and now wish I would have switched cameras, but how else am I ever going to learn without making mistakes?



Here's the same photo blown up a bit so you can see the details a bit better.



"And here's one of just his head. You can tell he makes his living digging out other critters, as you can see the dirt all over his face, ears etc.



Have a gooe one. BB

[Eric D]

Fantastic series!

[hb1944]

Great series. I especially like the head shots of the antelope. They are very sharp and the depth of field is just right.

[buglinbilly]

Thanks to all for the nice comments.

Antelope in general are very hard to photograph for most because getting close is so difficult with their exceptional eyes. And this year there is so much water and feed around, there are many less coming near my blinds.

But I am leaving next week to spend a good deal of time taking, or at least trying to take antelope photos. I will spend the best part of the next 3 weeks in Wyoming doing that. Then in the second week of Sept the rifle hunt opens up and I will let the rifle hunter's have at it for a couple a weeks and return around the 21st day of Sept for another 10 days. That will be during the heat of their rut and I hope to capture some of their rutting gestures.

Here are a couple photos I took last fall during thier rut.









You don't have to use your imagination too much to know what this buck is doing. But for those that don't, he is insuring that I have new antelope to photo this year and in years to come.












Have a good one. BB