Just call me the deer whisperer. I can’t seem to move for the things.
Taken with a Fuji X-E1 and Fuji XC 16-50mm f3.5-5.6 OSS II
Around the Neighborhood – Took the dog for a walk and guess what I bumped into………
Still more deer in the meadow
This time, however they were different. In my previous deer pictures the animals did not have horns. These did so I assume these are male where the others were female. I think that’s true of most deer although I’ve read that reindeer females also have horns. I think these are pictures of two different deer. No females this time. I guess it was guys night out.
Taken with a Sony A77II and Tamron SP A08 200-500 f/5-f/6.3 IF di
More deer in the meadow
We (my dog Harley and myself) were sitting on the balcony watching the world go by when this deer appeared. Harley immediately started barking at it. This didn’t seem to bother the deer one bit. He/she just stood there looking at Harley. After a while Harley stopped barking and they both just stood there looking at each other for some time. I didn’t really want to take any more pictures of deer – I have so many, but I couldn’t resist.
When I looked at the picture on the computer I noticed that the deer had lots of bumps on its head, neck and shoulders. Examining them more closely I realized that they were probably engorged deer ticks.
This made me wonder if deer get Lyme disease. After some internet research I discovered that they don’t. They carry the ticks around, but, if bitten don’t get the disease. Some research also indicates that not only do the deer not get the disease, but if they are bitten by a tick they somehow make the tick immune from the disease. Apparently the ticks get the disease from mice, not from deer. So the bad guys in all of this are not the ticks, not the deer, but the mice.
Taken with a Sony A77II and Tamron SP A08 200-500 f/5-f/6.3 IF di
Film Camera 2021 -3 Pentax Espio 115G
This camera was given to me by a friend, who also gave me an old film with it. Some specifications below:
- Size and Weight: Width 4.4 in; Height 2.4 in; Depth 1.6 in; Weight 7.58 oz
- Lens: 3x optical zoom, 38-115mm f/3.9-10.5; 7 elements in 6 groups.
- Optics: Min Focus Range 25.6 in; Focus Adjustment automatic; Max View Angle 59 degrees. The camera has a built in lens shield.
- Flash: built in; red eye reduction; range 2-31 feet: ISO 400 (wide) 2.8 feet -13 feet: ISO 400 (tele)
- Viewfinder covers 83% with Panorama frame, autofocus frame, close-up correction frame and LEDs indicating flash ready and autofocus ready.
- Minimum shutter speed 1/300 second ; Maximum exposure 2 seconds in automatic plus bulb.
- Self timer with 10 second delay
- Film Speed Range: ISO 25 – 3200
- Other features: Automatic film advance, date imprint, LCD display showing battery condition, flash mode, frame counter, landscape mode, red-eye mode, self-timer mode, auto power off infinity focus lock.
- Flash Modes: auto, fill flash mode, flash OFF, red-eye reduction, slow synchro.
- Takes 1 CR2 battery.
There’s a good review of of it here
On the Balcony – Young Leaves
One evening towards the end of May I was sitting on the balcony outside my bedroom when I noticed the late afternoon sun picking out these newly emerging leaves.
Taken with a Canon 450D and Canon EF 50mm f1.8 II.