Rocky Mountain Mule Deer Bucks in Winter

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It was one of those brief instances where my friends and I were journeying into Rocky Mountain National Park in the winter and we just happen across these two beautiful mule deer bucks trying to survive in -13 degrees AND it was snowing.

Now I've mentioned many times that I love the cold and the snow. Up to this point, I hadn't photographed many animals in the snow, let alone WHILE it was snowing. They posed for me for about five whole minutes, looking this way and that, standing majestically as if they knew they'd be the stars of a nice, big print. One of the many reasons I love Colorado, Wyoming, and of course Montana.

I wish I could have stayed longer on this trip but I got sick. The c-word ovid kind of sick. I'll say this, though. I didn't know I was sick and I was out in those negative temperatures having a blast. Only thing I would change is that I was sick. No one else caught it, thank God. Just me.

Oh, but looking back through these images brings me so much joy as I remember carefully walking along the road with my spikes on (because I bought spikes for this trip) and not having a monopod so I had to hand-hold the telephoto. The snow falling down thick and cold. The ice that formed on my beard. All for these amazing images of deer.

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