{"id":20978,"date":"2015-03-19T05:41:27","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T11:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=20978"},"modified":"2026-04-28T06:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:15:33","slug":"extreme-close-up-of-an-american-bison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2015\/03\/19\/extreme-close-up-of-an-american-bison\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme Close Up Of An American Bison"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AmericanAmerican Bison eye – Nikon D810, f6.3, 1\/1000, ISO 500, -1.3 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC,\u00a0 natural light
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In January of this year an American Bison bull on Antelope Island was so close to the road in front of me that I decided to focus on his head and eyes. I didn’t have time to take off my teleconverter and I only had a landscape lens on my back up camera so I figured why not just focus on his eye.<\/p>\n

Looking at this bull’s eye made me think of how long bison have been roaming the planet and how we almost pushed them to extinction. I am so very glad they didn’t become extinct.<\/p>\n

This American Bison<\/span><\/a> image also reminds me that we need to keep on speaking up for those who can not speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

There are times in bird and wildlife photography I find I simply have to go with the flow and that some times the results are very pleasing to me.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

Looking at this bull’s eye made me think of how long bison have been roaming the planet and how we almost pushed them to extinction. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_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":[443,511,26],"tags":[4004,4463,745,4350,4314,4142,3981,11978,5767,4062,4032,373],"class_list":["post-20978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bison","category-antelope-island-state-park","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-american-bison","tag-bison-bison","tag-buffalo","tag-bull","tag-close-up","tag-davis-county","tag-desert-island","tag-eye","tag-male","tag-wildlife-photography","tag-winter"],"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