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by JACK NEAL

Gallery: WildlifePosted February 28, 201082 views4 comments
These two Audad rams are fighting for the right to breed. They do not back up and run forward as do Big Horn rams, but push each other to see who is stronger. This is in the Texas Hill Country.

50D
1/800
F6.3
ISO 800
FL400
Heavy crop

Thanks for looking at my picture and for any comment.

Comments

4 comments
Comment posted by Laura Stafford on February 28, 2010 at 7:09 PM
Wow, this is a great shot of these two powerful rams.

Laura Stafford
Registered on November 3, 2009, 52 Posts, 375 Comments
Comment posted by Robert Bunch on February 28, 2010 at 10:03 PM
Good closeup of these two guys. The grass does distract a little bit but not much could be done about it. It would be interesting to see some full body shots of the battle if you have any.
Registered on May 18, 2004, 124 Posts, 2503 Comments
Comment posted by Brad Hill on March 1, 2010 at 9:05 AM
Hi Jack,

Nice documentation of this pushing contest! I like that you've captured the eyes of both combatants and I quite like the overall colour scheme of this image. In a perfect world it would have been nice to have them a little more broad-side and with fewer long grasses in the foreground, but getting everything compositionally perfect AND capturing the action is a tall order, to say the least! When I look at the larger image it looks slightly soft and a little noisy (particularly in the underside of the closest horn of the right-most subject), but I suspect this partly because of your "heavy crop" (and I'm guessing we're seeing this version of the image at close to 100% magnification).

Cheers...thanks for sharing this...

Brad
Registered on May 29, 2007, 431 Posts, 6061 Comments
Comment posted by Vincent Grafhorst on March 1, 2010 at 10:18 AM
Cool shot Jack! I like the fact that the eyes of both individuals are visible here. The super low angle makes this powerful, yet it also makes those grasses a bit of a problem so ideally a slightly higher angle would have been better in this case. A real pity it is such a heavy crop...
Registered on February 24, 2006, 504 Posts, 7203 Comments