Wildlife Encounter

[nightdog_barks]

silverjackal, I saw this and thought of you immediately.

Wildlife photographer in the Great Smoky Mountains has an up-close-and-personal encounter with a young bull elk

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[nightdog_barks]

:D

RANT AWAY, DEAR JACKAL. Yep, even I could tell that the photographer was the one at fault. He shouldn't have been out of the car in the first place. That was a big animal, and I could just imagine the damage a sharp, straight antler like that could inflict.

[silverjackal]

The carefully worded spin at the beginning tells me that whoever put the sequence together *knew* they were in the wrong, and were trying to shift the blame, too. The whole thing is asinine in the extreme. Here, have some macros that sum up my feelings. ;D

[nightdog_barks]

LOL! And yes, exactly. Who goes out of their way to emphasize that they were "a respectful distance" away? "It's not what you might think! It was the elk's fault!" Plus who knows what another person's definition of respectful distance is? Ten feet? Twenty? The next county? :D

Stay in your car. Roll down your window. Take pictures. Roll up window.

[silverjackal]

Respectful distance in this case is 10 m, minimum. *Minimum*. Fifteen or 20 is better. Thirty better still. Telephoto lenses were invented for a reason.