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Up Close But Not Personal Poster
by Don Mercer
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Up Close But Not Personal poster by Don Mercer. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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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... more
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Artist's Description
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...
About Don Mercer
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...
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Jill Black
Beautifully captured Don