Road trip

[pauln]

Today I took a road trip with a friend to have a bash at the deer rut. This is a trip we had planned for a couple of months and were really looking forward to it. We left home at 7am as we had a 9am slot with our own personal driver. we pulled up at about 8:45am and were introduced to our driver Derrick, we joked between ourselves about him being like the Ricky Gervais character and we soon found out we weren't far off. We got in to the truck and the first sentence that came out of Derricks mouth was "I don't know what made you book this trip but the rut is over" what a great start hey? He then proceeded to tell us not to worry because he knew exactly where the deer were. so after 40 mins or so of driving around and seeing nothing and having to listen to all the excuses under the sun I spotted some deer in the distance. Our driver proceeded to follow them but wasn't really that knowledgeable if im honest. Every time I went for a shot he failed to stop or would stop too far away, I didn't get many shots but here are the results, I did manage to get a couple of pricketts having a stand off (Derrick kept calling them brocketts lol ). My friend and I have decided to go to Richmond park next year on foot and do it properly. I might invite Derrick along for the ride

 

[FUJI]

What rotten rutting luck Paul? ;-)

The pics are OK though.

FUJI

[kev7d]

Shame about Derrick but I enjoyed looking at the set of images.

[Leon]

great shots 

 

 

if  you are ever in south Manchester/Cheshire you should go to with Dunham Massey, Tatton park, Lyme park or bit further south the Chestnut centre in the peak district. they all have resident Deer, not quite the same as wild but easy to photograph..

think we are spoiled around here

[Leon]

great shots 

 

 

if  you are ever in south Manchester/Cheshire you should go to with Dunham Massey, Tatton park, Lyme park or bit further south the Chestnut centre in the peak district. they all have resident Deer, not quite the same as wild but easy to photograph..

think we are spoiled around here

oh and if you do let me know I'll meet up with you

[pauln]

Thanks Leon, I think the best place other than Scotland has got to be Richmond park in London, again they are wild deer but much more used to human interaction than most. I should have gone this year but I kept putting it off

[THELONGMAN]

Good set Paul,-- another really good site is Petworth House in West Sussex, they have a big deer hurd there,

 

Geofff

[DarrenC]

Lovely light in these. No 2 is my favourite. You could do a load more with that in post production?

[JHFoto]

Some nice old dears...............