Two pronghorn in a summer sage meadow scattered with lupine and rabbitbrush, one looking back toward the other, Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park

The Understudy

I had this one filed under a different title for a while. My read was a doe on the ridge watching a big buck below her, and I named it accordingly. Then I looked closer at the horns on the animal on the right and had to throw the whole idea out. He's a buck too, just younger and smaller, with horns that haven't grown their prongs out yet.

That makes it a different picture. The mature buck is in the foreground on the left, broadside, unbothered, horns tall and hooked. The young one is up the slope on the right, partly screened by brush, standing still and looking down at him. It's the posture of a younger animal keeping his distance and paying attention to the one who outranks him.

Lamar Valley in summer. The meadow still had lupine and rabbitbrush in bloom, purple and yellow scattered through the sage and dry grass, which is most of what fills the frame between them.

Nikon Z 7II · Sigma 150-500mm · 500mm · f/6.3 · 1/500 sec · ISO 640

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