Fog3 by burton71, on Flickr

At a certain point, I have to ask myself what draws me to photograph the same animals over and over again. I started with trying to capture a feeling for the park as a whole, and shot everything that lived in it. But at a certain point, after capturing the park, I moved on to more specific goals. I've shot thousands of frames of the five bull elk that live here. I keep coming back to the fact that they all have their own personalities. Personalities that are much easier to glean than one finds with the female elk or the bison (or the whitetail deer). I'm no longer shooting generic elk, nor am I trying to bring across what "elk" are in the way that a Nat Geo photographer would; these have all become portraits of individuals, or at least attempts at them. It started with bull elk #24 who has been known to ham it up for the camera, but little by little I've come to see the separate personalities of each bull. My goal now is try to bring out those personalities in my images.

Heh, Shoulda stopped it down a bit. Cute dog though!

I think the dog looks good wide open.

cheers,
scott

Is that using a bracketing mode? I looked at the Exif data, but have never tried one of those with a rebel body. Looks great.

Yeah, it was a little narrower than I wanted to be, but it was dark in there at the time, and I was trying to bounce flash instead of directly lighting (see ISO).

And yes, she is pure. All the mannerisms of a boxer are there (pouncing and boxing). She is amazingly well-behaved for a 14 week old, and I can already tell she's going to be very loyal. Just need a name!

3 images shot at different exposures together? Maybe I'm used to canon terms.

Nevermind.