I'm not sure if this is the right forum, Steve, if wrong forum, please remove or move thanks!
My wife and I spend most of October and November photographing the Whitetail Deer rut here in SE Indiana, SW Ohio and N. KY. We log a lot of hours and miles and have made some nice photos for our yearly calendar.
With that as background, we are interested in either 2021 or 2022 heading out west to photograph the Elk Rut (and moose & mule deer if their cycles overlap). A couple questions:
1) where would you all recommend as the best area for success? We're thinking either Yellowstone or Rocky Mountain National Park. Not sure about rut but up around Mammoth area in Yellowstone has a lot of elk in the summer just not sure if they go into rut in the same area. Also we saw a number of elk in RMNP but they were pretty far off.
2) in the recommended places(s) what would be the time to increase chances of photo success? For example, if you come to my area looking for whitetail deer bucks chasing does, the last week of October and 1st 2 weeks of November is the peak activity most years.
3) I assume equipment needs would be similar. I shoot a Nikon D500, Nikon 200-500, and an assortment of wider angle, shorter telephoto and macro lenses. Probably wouldn't bring the whole kit, but then again... Wife shoots a Sony RX10-iv
Oh, for reference, I am retired and my wife will be retired by then too. Time is something we have plenty of, money, well that is a different story, but we will have all the time we need.
Thanks,
Jeff and Leslie S.
My wife and I spend most of October and November photographing the Whitetail Deer rut here in SE Indiana, SW Ohio and N. KY. We log a lot of hours and miles and have made some nice photos for our yearly calendar.
With that as background, we are interested in either 2021 or 2022 heading out west to photograph the Elk Rut (and moose & mule deer if their cycles overlap). A couple questions:
1) where would you all recommend as the best area for success? We're thinking either Yellowstone or Rocky Mountain National Park. Not sure about rut but up around Mammoth area in Yellowstone has a lot of elk in the summer just not sure if they go into rut in the same area. Also we saw a number of elk in RMNP but they were pretty far off.
2) in the recommended places(s) what would be the time to increase chances of photo success? For example, if you come to my area looking for whitetail deer bucks chasing does, the last week of October and 1st 2 weeks of November is the peak activity most years.
3) I assume equipment needs would be similar. I shoot a Nikon D500, Nikon 200-500, and an assortment of wider angle, shorter telephoto and macro lenses. Probably wouldn't bring the whole kit, but then again... Wife shoots a Sony RX10-iv
Oh, for reference, I am retired and my wife will be retired by then too. Time is something we have plenty of, money, well that is a different story, but we will have all the time we need.
Thanks,
Jeff and Leslie S.