{"id":101005,"date":"2022-03-24T05:06:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T11:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=101005"},"modified":"2022-03-24T05:06:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T11:06:14","slug":"spring-pronghorn-buck-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2022\/03\/24\/spring-pronghorn-buck-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Pronghorn Buck Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EarlyEarly spring buck Pronghorn portrait \u2013 Nikon D500, f8, 1\/2500, ISO 640, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

I was able to get out into the field yesterday morning and while I was on Antelope Island State Park<\/span><\/a> I took a series of spring buck Pronghorn photos. It had been a long time since I was close enough to take any Pronghorn photos and to my delight I was able to take portraits of him at first.<\/p>\n

In this photo the background is the dry lake bed of the Great Salt Lake. Not that many years ago I would have had water in the background at this same location. Our amazing hypersaline lake is drying up though. I won’t go into all the reasons why it is drying up this morning because it upsets me.<\/p>\n

\"SpringSpring buck Pronghorn close up \u2013 Nikon D500, f8, 1\/3200, ISO 640, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

When the buck Pronghorn turned around to head across the road I was able to take this portrait of him that had the shadow of his left horn on his right horn. It was about the same time that I took this image that I noticed that the buck was shedding his thick winter coat.<\/p>\n

\"SpringSpring buck Pronghorn starting to shed \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/3200, ISO 640, +0.3 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

After the Pronghorn buck walked across the road I was able to take full body images of his out in the grasses on the west side of the road.<\/p>\n

I truly enjoyed having this buck Pronghorn in my viewfinder yesterday morning. Even though finding and photographing birds is my primary focus when I am in the field I love taking photos of the other creatures I find too.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Pronghorn photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was able to get out into the field yesterday morning and while I was on Antelope Island State Park I took a series of spring buck Pronghorn photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":100993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[511,27,1022,183,26],"tags":[4004,4335,4096,4184,4142,3981,11978,4062,1632,4046,185,4855,1953,165],"class_list":["post-101005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island-state-park","category-avian","category-davis-county-utah","category-pronghorn","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-antelope","tag-antilocapra-americana","tag-buck","tag-close-up","tag-davis-county","tag-desert-island","tag-male","tag-mammals","tag-portrait","tag-pronghorn","tag-pronghorns","tag-shed","tag-spring"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t