Deer at night

“Jocelyn Lee, Deer at night, Maine, from the series 'The Physical World', 2002”

Merritt, BC & Region Natural History

Early readers of National Geographic Magazine were much taken with George Shiras' startling photos of startled deer. His most famous photos were taken at night with camera traps of his own invention. When an animal bumped the camera's trip wire it activated a magnesium flash gun. The flash powder sparked briefly before igniting and flared longer than the 1/1000th second duration of a modern electronic flash. The earsplitting blast of blinding light affected the animals like a stupendous…

George Shiras (1859–1942 American) • Flashlight Photograph of a Deer at night, Whitefish Lake, Minnesota, USA 1906

If the mere thought of sharks sends chills down your spine, consider the damage that a swarm of mosquitoes could inflict. And even cows have been known to be deadly.

Richmond park a few years back. Appears in Nat Geo's book Dawn to Dark. - www.amazon.com/National-Geographic-Dawn-Dark-Photographs/... Prints of this available here - alexsaberi.smugmug.com/Richmondpark

George Shiras is credited with taking the first-ever nighttime wildlife photographs, using a technique he developed in the early 1890s. Borrowing a hunting trick from the Objibwa called “jack…

3000 views thanks everyone. This is a deer cam photo of an old Albino Buck that we called Big Al. We knew he spent a lot of time on our land but he never came out in the daytime so it was impossible to get a photo of him, so I knew the only way we would get a photo of him was with a deer cam. He was the father, the grandfather, and great grandfather of many of the albinos that visit our land today. He has since passed away as did several other large albino bucks and it has been a couple of…

“This is a trail camera glitch. But how “Colour Out Of Space” and Hallowe’en like!”