Three Amigos

Nice shot enhanced by the antlers highlighted against the snow background. I like the pose with the elk not all looking in the same direction. The grass makes as nice fg.

Welcome to the wildlife gallery. You've got three handsome looking fellows there ! Love the way their antlers are aligned

Hi Kenneth,

Welcome to the NPN Wildlife Gallery. This is a very good first post (and congratulations on it being selected for use in the science textbook).

I like the foreground (and that it's completely within the sharpest region of your DoF) and this nicely shows how groups of elk do tend to keep an eye on all sides of themselves. And, very impressive specimens. I do find the subjects just a tad too centred vertically and wonder if shaving off a bit of foreground might strengthen the image just a tad. If this were mine I'd probably attempt to extract just a tad more detail out of the dark regions (especially in the neck region) via some selective exposure adjustments to those regions.

But a very solid first post...already looking forward to future contributions from you (including both images and comments on the images of others).

Cheers...

Brad

I agree with the suggestions already offered, but wanted to say welcome to NPN and thanks for sharing. I hope to see more of your images and please take a few moments to offer your reactions to some of the other postings in the gallery.