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This male bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) was resting in a Boulder City, Nevada, park in September 2016. A photographer who lives in Las Vegas and was on a white water rafting trip down the Colorado River through Grand Canyon National Park just a few days prior to my taking this image, suggested that I visit this park in the afternoon, as a small herd of these magnificent animals frequently grazes there at that time. I was fortunate on arriving to find numerous sheep taking in the beautiful day. The horns alone may weigh up to 30 pounds, while a male may weigh up to 300 pounds (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bighorn_sheep).

Don Mercer is an author and freelance fine art photographer. Research for one book took him to the middle of Cambodia in 1999, as he was the first from among his wartime unit to return to that country. During the War in Southeast Asia - known to most as the Vietnam War, he flew over two hundred combat missions as an Air Force pilot in the Cessna O-2A. His combat assignment was as a Forward Air Controller, or FAC. The majority of his combat missions were flown in Cambodia at night. While in Southeast Asia in 1970-71, his interest in photography intensified with the purchase of his first two of numerous Nikon cameras. Black and white, as well as color, 35mm, and Super 8 movie films were used at the time. The transition to digital...