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Bill Schone

Bill Schone

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I don’t know exactly why or what it is, but I view them along with Buffalo/Bison as iconic North American wildlife. These two shots are without a doubt my best two captures of an antelope. These were taken in the Sybille Canyon, just northeast of Laramie, Wyoming last week.
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Please feel free to add your antelope photos to this thread, I know I’ll look at them all. Thanks all.
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Came across a very cooperative herd of Pronghorns today that let me spend a couple of hours with them. Haven't finished my sorting but here's a few images I liked:

Nikon D5, 300mm PF @f/7.1, 1/1600", ISO 450
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Nikon D5, 500mm PF @ f/10, 1/1000", ISO 800
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Nikon D5, 600mm f/4 _ TC-14III (840mm), f/8, 1/1250", ISO 560
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Nikon D5, 600mm f/4 + TC-14 iii, f/8, 1/1250", ISO 560
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All good pictures (y) (y) I had my first sightings of these animals in Yellowstone, January, this year. I love the interesting facts about this creature! The only animal to shed horns. (Not antlers!) And closer related to a Giraffe than Antelope😆
 
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DRwyoming said:
Came across a very cooperative herd of Pronghorns today that let me spend a couple of hours with them. Haven't finished my sorting but here's a few images I liked:

Nikon D5, 300mm PF @f/7.1, 1/1600", ISO 450
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Nikon D5, 500mm PF @ f/10, 1/1000", ISO 800
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Nikon D5, 600mm f/4 _ TC-14III (840mm), f/8, 1/1250", ISO 560
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Nikon D5, 600mm f/4 + TC-14 iii, f/8, 1/1250", ISO 560
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Very nice serie (y) Always fascinated by these pronghorns.
 
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DRwyoming said:
Came across a very cooperative herd of Pronghorns today that let me spend a couple of hours with them. Haven't finished my sorting but here's a few images I liked:

Nikon D5, 300mm PF @f/7.1, 1/1600", ISO 450
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Nikon D5, 500mm PF @ f/10, 1/1000", ISO 800
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Nikon D5, 600mm f/4 _ TC-14III (840mm), f/8, 1/1250", ISO 560
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Nikon D5, 600mm f/4 + TC-14 iii, f/8, 1/1250", ISO 560
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Outstanding, very nice.
 
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All excellent shots...but just FYI...and I didn’t know this for a long time...they’re pronghorns and are not antelope at all, completely different family...their closest relative is the giraffe.
 
Neil Laubenthal said:
All excellent shots...but just FYI...and I didn’t know this for a long time...they’re pronghorns and are not antelope at all, completely different family...their closest relative is the giraffe.
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Growing up in their native lands and living here for 52 years, I can honestly say they are also referred to as Antelope, colloquially as well as other nicknames.
 
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DRwyoming said:
Came across a very cooperative herd of Pronghorns today that let me spend a couple of hours with them. Haven't finished my sorting but here's a few images I liked:

Nikon D5, 300mm PF @f/7.1, 1/1600", ISO 450
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Nikon D5, 500mm PF @ f/10, 1/1000", ISO 800
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Nikon D5, 600mm f/4 _ TC-14III (840mm), f/8, 1/1250", ISO 560
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Nikon D5, 600mm f/4 + TC-14 iii, f/8, 1/1250", ISO 560
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Very nice! Loooove the grass.
 
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Hut said:
I'm not good with words, but I really like the action in this third shot here.
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Thanks Hut!
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Very nice! Loooove the grass.
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Thanks Steven! Here's one from today of a few Pronghorn in that same hay field keeping a close eye on me.

D5, 600mm f/4 + TC-14 iii, f/5.6, 1/1600", ISO 180
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The hay fields have an interesting history, they're in a national park and surrounded by sage brush flats in their natural state but were run as farm land by the folks that lived in the Mormon Row cabins until the land went to the park service, leaving some very photogenic and iconic barns in the park. So when you drive further down this road the hay gives way to sage brush but the Pronghorn seem to really like the hay and spend a lot of time in these fields.

Here's what appeared to be an older buck hunkered down all by himself in those fields that didn't really seem to care that I approached.

D5, 600mm, f/5, 1/1600", ISO 640
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DRwyoming said:
Thanks Hut!

Thanks Steven! Here's one from today of a few Pronghorn in that same hay field keeping a close eye on me.

D5, 600mm f/4 + TC-14 iii, f/5.6, 1/1600", ISO 180
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The hay fields have an interesting history, they're in a national park and surrounded by sage brush flats in their natural state but were run as farm land by the folks that lived in the Mormon Row cabins until the land went to the park service, leaving some very photogenic and iconic barns in the park. So when you drive further down this road the hay gives way to sage brush but the Pronghorn seem to really like the hay and spend a lot of time in these fields.

Here's what appeared to be an older buck hunkered down all by himself in those fields that didn't really seem to care that I approached.

D5, 600mm, f/5, 1/1600", ISO 640
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Love the shots. And thanks for the background -- very interesting. Your shots make it clear they're great subjects; makes me eager for spring to get to southern Alberta to photograph the pronghorns on the open prairie.
 
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DRwyoming said:
Thanks Hut!

Thanks Steven! Here's one from today of a few Pronghorn in that same hay field keeping a close eye on me.

D5, 600mm f/4 + TC-14 iii, f/5.6, 1/1600", ISO 180
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The hay fields have an interesting history, they're in a national park and surrounded by sage brush flats in their natural state but were run as farm land by the folks that lived in the Mormon Row cabins until the land went to the park service, leaving some very photogenic and iconic barns in the park. So when you drive further down this road the hay gives way to sage brush but the Pronghorn seem to really like the hay and spend a lot of time in these fields.

Here's what appeared to be an older buck hunkered down all by himself in those fields that didn't really seem to care that I approached.

D5, 600mm, f/5, 1/1600", ISO 640
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As always, outstanding, keep them coming!
 
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DRwyoming said:
Thanks Hut!

Thanks Steven! Here's one from today of a few Pronghorn in that same hay field keeping a close eye on me.

D5, 600mm f/4 + TC-14 iii, f/5.6, 1/1600", ISO 180
View attachment 7796

The hay fields have an interesting history, they're in a national park and surrounded by sage brush flats in their natural state but were run as farm land by the folks that lived in the Mormon Row cabins until the land went to the park service, leaving some very photogenic and iconic barns in the park. So when you drive further down this road the hay gives way to sage brush but the Pronghorn seem to really like the hay and spend a lot of time in these fields.

Here's what appeared to be an older buck hunkered down all by himself in those fields that didn't really seem to care that I approached.

D5, 600mm, f/5, 1/1600", ISO 640
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Great captures! The background is awsome too!
Those pronghorns don't seem to have any limitations with fences, as it seems to be the case elsewhere; in some parts of Canada and USA, as I saw in a documentary, those animals have to live with cattle and get hurt when they cross barbed wire, unable to jump but instead, going underneath, causing injuries to themselves and later, infections which can lead to their death.
 
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