Up Close But Not Personal
by Don Mercer
Title
Up Close But Not Personal
Artist
Don Mercer
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Photograph - Photograph
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While spending some time around Jackson, Wyoming, in March 2012, I ventured out of town to the northeast on National Elk Refuge Road. A person that I met in Jackson suggested that I might have an opportunity to shoot bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis), so off I went. As luck would have it, just over a mile outside town, I found a few sheep to the left of the road grazing and another half dozen off to my right. I pulled up short of being in between the two groups, rolled down my window, opened my door, and got out to stand beside my car to see what unfolded. For some fifteen minutes, all the bighorn sheep just happily grazed undisturbed. Then, one large male, called a ram, decided to cross the road in front of me. I set my camera on the base of the window frame and began to shoot. I had not put this critter on my payroll; but even if I had, he could not have done a better job of posing for me. Just as he got about ten feet in front of my car and my opened door, he turned, as if to say, "Good morning," and then casually ambled off to join the group of his buddies on the left side of the road. Being up close to such amazing large animals is exhilarating! This image was published in my article, "Seasons in the Grand Tetons," which appeared in the Photographic Society of America's "PSA Journal" in March 2015.
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