Moose on the Loose Acrylic Print

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After completing a week-long shoot in Yellowstone National Park, two fellow photographers and I drove on icy and snow-covered roads to stay in Jackson, Wyoming, for several days while capturing images in Grand Teton National Park and the National Elk Refuge. On two occasions, we also ventured into the Gros Ventre ("Large Belly") Valley.
On one of these trips, one of my friends spotted a large, adult moose that was bedded down just above a stream and all but out of view. We, of course, stopped, waded through knee deep snow to reach a good vantage point at a split rail fence, and began shooting this majestic animal while taking care not to disturb it.

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...