Stuart Philpott
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- Stuart Philpott
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Hello guys, I hope all are well:cheers:
I live in the middle of England UK. For the last twenty or 30 years in the same little farm workers cottage in the vale of Evesham close to a limestone escapement called the Cotswolds. A very very rich man, very local to me, sadly passed, recentlu ......his legacy to us is a 30,000 acre baby forest ,that is all but on my doorstep. This is my patch my home it is beyond fascinating watching it slowly change from English farmland into a baby woodland and if I live long enough maybe a semi mature one. .
What I'm now seeing I might possibly look back on as a life time experience. The number of roe encounters in maybe a year for the same image maker with the same set of skills now condensed into weeks maybe days. My original absense caused by a little camper van, so I can explore photo ops on my little island then got extended into watching roe as often as I physically could / can !!
We are now right on the cusp of two things in the world of english roe firstly they are having their kids now,. Second they are about to rut. So image wise I'm chasing a hard won fawn and mum but bumping into a few folks along the way... For a few weeks I could have taken anyone to within a few hundred yards of a dozing buck I got to know it's been an utterly bewildering few months I've honestly never seen so many roe here before. or anywhere else for that matter
I've discovered I have a hidden ability as a cloud whisperer,:eek3: when I pick up a camera,it's uncanny!! This foray after rain and in rain left me sliightly bemused ,I really quite like this frame but having crawled through wet grass I resembled a dish cloth and if one wears specs hmm........ try as I might, to get them dry, I simply really couldn't see much at all
Naturally with a roe buck dancing round me yards away, I sort of forgot my backup cloth stashed safe and dry :S3: .
The image is not cropped
it's made at 4;43 pm on a grey old day Canon 1dxii 400 DO IS II 1.4 ext iii 560 mm Most processing for colour WB gentle NR in DPP then selective layers for NR on BKG and gentle sharps to subject in PSCC 1/1000 f5.6 iso 2500 i'm shooting roughly across the tops of the entanglemant of buttercups grasses and possibly camomile daisies off my knee hand held,I'm coming to love shooting across the top of vegatation the daisy bud to the RHS of buck's right ear has been burnt I hope not too heavily it was really grabbing my eye
. The very thing I like about this frame the OOF veggies also made getting focus extremely tricky I wondered whether anything might be in focus as I wondered back. This might be a marmite shot with the face partially obscured it's what what appeals to me . his behaviour : he was deliberately looking through things at me,almost like he felt they kept him hidden.........bless !!
cheers for the previous kindnesses:w3
stu
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