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White-tailed deer locations?
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White-tailed deer locations?
I think I can guess.....
"stan" wrote in message ... I think you might get more useful advice if you told us what country you lived in and maybe even where in that country you were from. Just a thought. Stan Visual Arts Photography wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a place to photograph nice white-tail bucks. The kind you would find on a cover of a magazine. Bill G. |
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White-tailed deer locations?
Bill,
Whitetails in the US are pretty widely distributed as you probably already know. However, they are also hunted in many places and although there may be some really large bucks around, they are probably going to be relatively difficult to photograph, especially where they are hunted. There are local exceptions, of course, where they are fed or are exceptionally numerous. However to have a consistent opportunity to photograph large whitetail bucks, you have to find a place where they are usually not hunted, where they are numerous, where they have genetics capable of growing large antlers, where there is the necessary nutrition available to take advantage of those genetics, and where they are habituated to humans. The best place I've ever been to photograph whitetails has been the Cades Cove area in Great Smokey Mountains National Park. See the Smokey Mountain NP website at http://www.nps.gov/grsm/. The deer population and landscape here satisfy all the characteristics listed above. The deer pretty much ignore photographers so not only can you get photos of some really huge bucks, but also capture their behavior as well. Early morning or evening is best, but in fall the deer seem fairly active all day. (They may be active the rest of the year as well, but I don't have any experience there except in fall.) Bucks often trail does, so if you see a doe moving steadily there may be a buck trying to catch up to her. I've gotten numerous shots of big bucks by simply sitting near the path of the doe and waiting for the buck to show. The advantage in using this technique is that you get to choose the background that you want the buck photographed against. Rut runs from October through early December, with a peak of activity in later October and early November, but the bucks shed their velvet by late August and are looking their best by September. (Timing varies slightly from year to year.) September can be a busy time when the park fills up with visitors looking at fall color and traffic can be very heavy in the Cades Cove loop during that time frame. The best time to go, in my opinion, is after the leaves are off the trees. The deer are still active, sunlight can penetrate the overhead trees and the light is better longer in the morning and evening. That usually happens by mid to late October. Besides hiking and driving the Cades Cove loop, go for short hikes off the cutoff roads. There are numerous places for hikes and all of it is good for deer. There are also black bears in this area and fall is an active time of the year for them as well. Just exercise a bit of caution, don't approach them, and make a bit of noise when you are hiking; the deer generally ignore noisy hikers so making noise isn't a problem in photographing deer. No need to try and sneak up on them; in fact, I like to let them know I'm around. We typically see about a hundred deer a day in the Cades Cove area with a good proportion of them being bucks. Several of the bucks will be very large and a couple of them will provide opportunities for photography. As a result, a stay of several days will net lots of photographs of a few very nice bucks. If the lighting is good, if you are bit lucky, you'll get photographs of the type you are looking for. Good luck... Gordon wrote in message .. . Hi, I'm looking for a place to photograph nice white-tail bucks. The kind you would find on a cover of a magazine. Bill G. |
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White-tailed deer locations?
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... Hi, I'm looking for a place to photograph nice white-tail bucks. The kind you would find on a cover of a magazine. Winnipeg (or southeastern Manitoba). They're all over the place. City parks. Residential areas. Apparently, it's even worse east of the city, once you get out of the prairies and into the Canadian Shield area. I like the late afternoon lighting in Manitoba this time of year. It has a very nice warm feeling to it (yeah, I know, that's the only warm thing about Manitoba this time of year). The deer in the parks are, for deer, fairly used to humans. I run in Assiniboine park and, this time of year, frequently come around corners to see deer standing right at the edge of the road. Usually they watch me run by (I presume they make rude comments about me after I'm gone), so I know you can get rather close to them. The deer in Birds Hill Park (just north of the city) are a little more skittish as hunting is permitted outside the park. Nevertheless, they do let me get quite close on my bike before they hightail (or is that whitetail) it into the bush. Jeff |
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White-tailed deer locations?
Go to the Colonial Natl. Park at Yorktown, Virginia - They stand on the side
of the road with no fear of people since there is no hunting in the park. I carry and us a small blind and there are plenty of pull offs to park. (The blind is to block me from drawing the attention of other people so that I can sit in quiet without onlookers disturbing my subjects.) wrote in message ... Hi, I'm looking for a place to photograph nice white-tail bucks. The kind you would find on a cover of a magazine. Bill G. |
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