It's a rainy day in Leesburg, and I am feeling lazy. I have a long list of reflection and mood shots filed away for rainy days, but.....And in any case, I need to get up at 5AM tomorrow to do some more shooting along the Potomac. More mud!! So here I am sitting in front of my Mac editing some of this weeks shots. I stare ideally out the window and what do I see staring back at me?
A complete deer family, two fawns, a doe and a buck complete with a respectable rack for Eastern Whitetails! I grabbed my Nikon D-3 with a 300 mm, F4 lens and head for the slidding door to the patio. Now in real life, this noisy door should have sent the deer bolting, but then in real life you do not see a complete nuclear family of deer! Either because our foilage is so tasty or because the deer of suburban northern Virginia think they own the place this family barely moved. The buck stared at me, but that was it. Now this is not how it is suppose to work. I am suppose to go to Shenadoah National Park, get up at 5AM, hike over to Big Meadows and hope the deer arrive as the sun comes up. Usually this is not what happens, and certainly not with a complete deer family unit. Now I am energized and I need to run out and buy a MegaMillion ticket for tonight. This must be my lucky day.
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