{"id":48865,"date":"2017-10-09T05:18:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T11:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=48865"},"modified":"2026-02-26T06:41:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T12:41:29","slug":"northern-utah-mule-deer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2017\/10\/09\/northern-utah-mule-deer\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Utah Mule Deer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MuleMule Deer doe close up – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/1250, ISO 500, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x Tc, natural light
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I haven’t posted any Mule Deer since the doe I photographed whose face was covered in spider webs and actually had a spider on her muzzle<\/span><\/a> so I thought I’d post two deer I photographed last week.<\/p>\n

Last Friday while looking for birds in the West Desert of Tooele County I saw a doe cross the road in a canyon and she stopped to look around where she was so close I couldn’t even fit all of her ears in the viewfinder.<\/p>\n

I decided to take photos of her any way and hoped to show her beauty up close. Typically I wouldn’t like to not show her entire head but I thought this image worked well.<\/p>\n

\"BackBack lit Mule Deer buck – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/640, ISO 640, +1.3 EV, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x Tc, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Then last Saturday I saw a buck out in grassy a field in Box Elder County with the sun behind him and while I normally don’t like to take back lit images I also don’t like getting into a photographic rut.<\/p>\n

I want to challenge my skills and try different things. I enjoy trying to work with different lighting situations and seeing the results. I’ve seen some gorgeous back lit images where the rim lighting is simply spectacular.<\/p>\n

Rim lighting is a light that typically comes from beside or behind a subject. I like the rim lighting in this Mule Deer photo but perhaps it would have been even better just a few minutes earlier when the sun was a little lower.<\/p>\n

These two Mule Deer<\/span><\/a> were photographed in different settings, different lighting situations but about the same time of the morning and I find them both appealing.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

These two Mule Deer were photographed in different settings, different lighting situations but about the same time of the morning and I find them both appealing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1148,317,1316,358,26,1314],"tags":[970,2485,4184,3940,4142,3801,4097,4620,4070,1124,4062,4022,4180,11852],"class_list":["post-48865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-box-elder-county-utah","category-mule-deer","category-stansbury-mountains-utah","category-tooele-county","category-utah","category-west-desert-utah","tag-autumn","tag-back-lit","tag-buck","tag-canyon","tag-close-up","tag-deer","tag-doe","tag-fall","tag-female","tag-field","tag-male","tag-mule-deer","tag-odocoileus-hemionus","tag-ranchlands"],"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