Showing posts with label buck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label buck. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Buttons Wears His Velvet ...

“Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.”

             ~ John Muir

                  ~ 1838 ~1914

My favorite yearling ~ Buttons, as I call him ~ shows off his velvet as the eight point buck enjoys a beautiful summer evening in August at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.

I began photographing Buttons as a precious white-spotted fawn, then a sweet button buck and then a beautiful yearling, until he migrated away in January 2020. Along the way I tossed him many apples, which he loved eating. It’s a true joy and blessing to me personally and as a photographer to have watched this white-tailed deer grow.


 

Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Apple Of The Yearling's Eye ...

“Happily we bask in this warm September sun, which illuminates all creatures.”

              ~ Henry David Thoreau

                 ~ 1817 ~ 1862

A beautiful white-tailed deer yearling ~ who has recently lost the velvet on his antlers ~ eyes the apple I tossed him, which he then enjoyed eating under the evening sun on a warm late September day at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.


 

Monday, June 8, 2020

The Buck In August ...


“Be inspired by your journeys traveled and the ones yet to come.”
        ~ Sam Clark
A majestic six-point white-tailed deer buck pauses to pose on a beautiful August evening in this high contrast monochrome portrait I shot at Trexler Memorial Park, Allentown, Pennsylvania.