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Elk in trees
Driving towards Madison from Norris, a group of elk were causing a standard traffic jam on the highway. At first, only a few females were spotted but hiding in the Lodge Pole pine trees was the male.
It's kind of exciting scanning the forest with a 500 mm lens and discovering a male spying back at you. The image at left is the result of exposing a full role of film. Due to the lighting conditions and out-of- focus greenery, this is a situation in which you just keep shooting because you don't really know what the final image will look like.