This photo won an award as the habitat winner with the British Wildlife Photography Awards. The photographer is Ben Hall and the title of the photograph is "Fallow buck at dawn".
Capturing this moment in the dawn with the deer is just amazing. There is just a little light shining down with an opening gap from the trees that lead your eyes right down to the deer. This shows what a peaceful environment can be like in the morning when exploring a habitat. It shows the beauty of nature in the woods. The golden colors give this image a warm feel and to me that is what makes it innovative. We often see black and white, and colors. The landscaping around the subject gives the image a fullness. This image was well deserved for an award .
I think that the best part of this image is the tonal range, and that warm golden color. You really don't see the deer at first until your eye follows the light to him.
ReplyDeleteI can't imagine how long it took waiting for a deer to come by this spot to achieve this shot.
The composition of the image is nice too. You might think the darkness on the right side of the photo would throw it too much out of balance, but it seems to work.
Very much award winning work.
I like hues. I appreciate how the sun is shining thru the trees "just enough". It almost gives and appearance of being daylight on one side then darkness/night time on the rightside of the photo. Great.
ReplyDeleteThe image is a bit contradictory. The golden tones give you a nice warm intimate feeling, but the big cloud of the buck's breath showing in the light let you know that it was really a cool, moist morning.
ReplyDeleteI think the dark corners of the image give the viewer the sense of being hidden away, like you are spying on the buck. If you hide in a closet and peek out at someone, you are in the dark and they are in the brightness.