The Velvet is Here | Show Me Nature Photography

Today’s post features a couple of images I captured yesterday morning, as I looked from my front door at the Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri:

I have seen several bucks with velvet antlers the last couple of weeks. Although it will be a while until their antlers shed the velvet and the bucks are ready for the rut, seeing them in velvet is always exciting.

Photographic Equipment Used:

• Canon 7D Mark 2 camera body
• Canon 100-400mm, f/4.5-f/5.6 IS lens
• Handheld, with IS “On”
• ISO 800
• Aperture f/5.6
• Shutter 1/3200 sec. and 1/1600 sec.