Fair enough comment on the fence, Dan. And knowing your documentary intent, it's certainly a fine photo!
cheers, frank --- Original Message --- From: "Daniel J. Matyola" <[email protected]> Sent: June 15, 2013 6/15/13 To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: PESO: Spring Fawn Thanks, Frank! Deer are much rarer in the forest than in suburban yards. For me the fence is an important part of the documentary aspect of the image, showing it was taken on my neighbor's lawn, with the deer fence preventing them from the reaching the tastiest morsels. BTW, I'm not certain that the doe is her mother; it may be a baby sitter. It looked fairly small and thin. There was a second fawn with the doe when I first encountered them, as I turned into our cul-de-sac. The three were in the road. The doe and this fawn continued to cross the street and run up on my neighbor's lawn; the other fawn panicked, and ran back to the lawn on the other side. Although does sometimes have twins, that is fairly rare. The mother's leave their fawns early in the morning, usually with a young doe watching nearby. The mothers then browse the neighborhood all day, returning in early evening to collect their babies. I have often seen from 2 to 6 fawns in the care of a single young doe baby sitter. We have many deer in our suburban neighborhood -- far too many. The township has contracted with a local bow hunters' club, to cull the herd every fall. In two of the last three years, a deer has died in our yard after being shot with an arrow. There do seem to be fewer deer around this year; perhaps it is working. About 6 years ago, there was one herd in our front yard and another in our back yard, totally 33 deer on our one acre of land. Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 10:06 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Pretty little thing. Really like mom in there, too. > > I know you couldn't do anything about it, but it's a real shame about that > fence. It's not that intrusive but certainly lets us know it's not in a > forest. > > Still, a lively capture. > > Cheers, > frank > > --- Original Message --- > > From: "Daniel J. Matyola" <[email protected]> > Sent: June 14, 2013 6/14/13 > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: PESO: Spring Fawn > > http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17424695 > Comments are invited. > > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
