A bull elk rests after a long morning of bugling and sparring with other bulls. Apparently he was victorious as a dozen or so cow elk grazed contently nearby.
* Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
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This picture was originally posted in a test journal which was a trial attempt to update this photo blog. It didn't come out the way I had hoped (individual pages have an archieve column which throws off the setting of the photos and drops them to the bottom of the page), but I really REALLY liked the photos on the black back ground. Enter global photo community aminus3. I have been posting there since the end of March on my site "Colorado At The Speed Of Life". I invite you to take a peek there. You'll see some of my old favorites, and maybe a few new ones as well. I shall still keep this blog going because this is my home, my family and friend, but I really enjoy the interaction with the new global photo community. Check out the Community link while you're there. Photographers can feature a new photograph every day and some are just out of this world!
5 comments:
I have never seen a pure photograph without editing to make it look like an oil painting --- look just like an oil painting. I can see brush strokes in the rocks! You have produced a perfect 'Art Photograph'. Everything about it; the placement of the bull elk, the color of the grasses, the colors and placement of the rocks and trees. It all works together in a perfect arrangment. I have recently produced some 8 X 10 photo's on gloss plus Canon photo paper of the rocks and spring foliage of Ferne Clyfee State Park from 2006, that I could not be more pleased with. I made some saturation and contrast adjustments till they were what I wanted. Now I want to mat and frame them for gifts and I also think they would sell. I just have so much confidence in the quality of them that I feel in time someone would buy one. Your Elk would be such a wonderful print for someone to have framed and on their mantle. mark
I love this picture. I have only seen one in the wild before, so majestic.
Julie
I have just looked at it more and the way the sunlight is hitting the ground and washing across the photo onto the elk's antler's is just pure perfection. mark
i love this...and i checked out your photo blog....wonderful shots there too!
gina
Very cool shot there Dorn! I'll have to swing by and check out aminus3. I recently featured another photographer that has galleries there.
Greg
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