a fleeting glimpse before its gone, love the tones and the foreground out of focus grasses the slighlty pinkish hues also work, like a hunter stalking his prey that moment a heart beat, who flinches first the camera comes up the deer flees.
I almost could not vote on this image because the tones could not be made out.. after a few seconds, I saw a really adorable deer staring back at me.
I am impressed with this image because to me it was like a hide and go seek, by holding my interest for that split second, I was able to see more into the photo than what was actually there. the soft vignette I know is a personal favorite of ubique and I think you should have had a great comment for him.
Lovely image. Camouflage, alertness and staying alive is serious business, so please forgive me for indulging in the sense of sweetness I also feel. Perhaps it's the overall delicacy or the emotional projection of the sunlit tree trunks as guardian spirits. The tone itself is magical. There's an eternal story being told here, and I thank you for sharing it.
IMHO, this satisfies the criteria of "photo as object" with its giant fields of textured blur. It's basically my version of eye candy, the kind of thing that gives me pleasure to look at.
Nicely uncertain, with the foreground grass and the even light making it authentically environmental rather than an unequivocal zoo-style portrait. You feel something about the critter, when it's photographed like this. It's a deer of some kind presumably? Looks a lot like a female waterbuck though. Anyway I like environmental wildlife pictures, so than you.