Saturday, June 16, 2007

Hunting buffalo


Nicole and I recently purchased two Canon Rebel XTI cameras, a pair of lenses, and several books describing the mysteries of F-stops, shutter speeds, and ISO numbers. Until we met this obliging buffalo, a resident of the Sage Creek Wildlife Preserve, none of it was of any use.

I don't know his name, but I do know he likes to eat huge bunches of prairie grass and could give a rat's ass about who watches him doing it. We grew so excited at seeing a buffalo up close that we followed him around in our car, blasting away with every combination of camera settings we could think of. What we lacked in knowledge, we made up for in thoroughness.

From time to time, he obliged us by looking up as if to say, "Aren't you done yet?" This captures him in one of those moments.

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