Come On, Follow Me! Sheep, Scary Habitat

Posted by Tim Grams on Fri Oct 24, 2003 12:26 am

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In the Polychrome Pass area of Denali NP, AK, well off the road.

Several of these ewes followed their fearless leader, and fearless is absolutely the correct term, down this frightfully steep cliff covered with loose rock. I was expecting to actually see a sheep falling to its death. Fortunately I was wrong.

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by Laura Stiefel on Fri Oct 24, 2003 1:13 am

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Never in life will I be this brave. I'm scared just looking at this! Wonderful capture of these guys in their habitat. I like the sense of scale depicted here.

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by DC on Fri Oct 24, 2003 6:04 am

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Man that looks scary....I'd hate to be a mountain sheep

Great shot Tim.

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by Cory Kittle on Fri Oct 24, 2003 6:27 am

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Very cool and very typical habitat for these guys! Isnt it amazing how graceful they are in this kind of stuff.

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by Karen S on Fri Oct 24, 2003 7:29 am

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Very cool Tim....nice job

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by Harvey Edelman on Fri Oct 24, 2003 7:34 am

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I really, really like this. The subject does not have to take up the whole frame as proven here.

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by Ken Cravillion on Fri Oct 24, 2003 8:20 am

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Great environmental shot. I can't imagine seeing them do this!

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by Dennis Olivero on Fri Oct 24, 2003 8:42 am

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Tim this is excellent. I like how the range behind provides depth to the picture and the small in the frame animals provides excellent perspective. Nice job on making an animalscape...

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by E.J. Peiker on Fri Oct 24, 2003 10:14 am

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This is cool - I really like this - its probably excellent big!

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by Kelly on Fri Oct 24, 2003 11:21 am

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Tim, This is superb! Your timing to have the leader partway down and the next one tentatively looking in that direction is great. The positioning in the frame really shows their terrain. These sheep are obviously far more agile than I. A bit more contrast might help, but it's hard to tell with the small jpg version.

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by Michael Brown on Fri Oct 24, 2003 11:44 am

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I look at them and wonder, "what the h_ll are these guys thinking?"

Awesome perspective, wonderful shot!!

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by Bill Keown on Fri Oct 24, 2003 12:42 pm

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Tim, this says it all about how to get images of sheep.

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by AlexC on Fri Oct 24, 2003 12:42 pm

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Tim wrote:

I was expecting to actually see a sheep falling to its death. Fortunately I was wrong.

Tim, very slim chance of one of them falling off, there are a few recorded instances that while being chased by predators in less steep terrain, some have fallen and gotten hurt or killed, they are expert climbers and master of their domain, While in Kodiak we could see many different groups thru out the range, no more than 3 to 6 at most and pretty high above the tree line, in this terrain a bear would have zero chance of catching one, In winter while the mountain tops are covered by snow they migrate down near the coast, by then the bears are well into their salmon dreams or berries dreams if in Denali!!, A marvel of adaptation!!! Marvelous angle,Congrats!!!

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by Steve Mason on Fri Oct 24, 2003 2:37 pm