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This guy stopped eating and headed for the bottom of Fruita Canyon too. This photo was entered in the 100th Anniversary of the "Colorado National Monument" Photo - Art Contest in late 2010. It along with 19 other entries were hung and on display for 3 months in the the Grand Junction, Colorado, City Hall Building starting January 7, 2011. then for 3 months in the Mesa County, Colorado Building. Best of show, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, was announced the evening of January 7th. This photo wasn't in that group. This photo was the only animal photo of the 20 chosen to be on display. There was a total of 75 people who submitted 3 pieces of Art each for a total of 225 pieces in the contest. Being one of the 20 was an honor. Has anyone noticed something missing on the RAM? How about his right ear? He had it back of his head. To me it seemed to be a sign of alarm on his part. #109 is where 2 RAMS did a Head Butt that are rare Photo's to get.
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Rocky Mountain ram and ewe just inside Colorado National Monument on the Fruita side. They were off the road 100 feet or so. October 6, 2010. They were looking at a car going by.
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There were two other ewes with this couple.
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It had stopped raining and they were wet. This is #3 of 3 photos.
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His ears went forward when he heard a vehicle. I had the 100 mm X 400mm image stabilizing Canon lens on the 7D. That means that the 1.6 factor Canon APS-C sensor converts 1.6 X 400 = 640mm
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His ears went back when he saw a vehicle.
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His ears were forward when heard a vehicle coming.
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Forward
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Forward
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Ears back when he sees a car. This is #6 of 6 photos.
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This is the young Ram about a half hour after we had gone up the road turned around and came back.
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They were going up a steep grade
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They stopped to pose for me even.
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A looking at you profile shot.
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The sun was headed west so the rock took on a really dark red look in the shade.
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The dark rock with her in full sun light made things look a bit unusual yet nice.
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They were in the shade a bit.
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This ewe climbed up the cliff and had it's head sticking in the rocks.
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This ewe was the first to go up to a higher ledge.
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He's getting ready to go up a level of the rocks.
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He really stretched on this one. No way could I have made that climb half as easy as he did.
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Just about up
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AH there he is....
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Now to catch up to her... This is #20 of 20
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These photo's were taken the 5th of November 2010 in Colorado National Monument as were all these Big Horn pictures are. I took these photo's with the 7D using an 18mm X 200mm is lens.(with the Canon APS-C sensor the 1.6 factor conversion is actually 28.8mm X 320mm .
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There were about 13 sheep in this bunch. 3 Rams and 10 Ewes.
I used the 7D and T1i intermittently so the numbers are the numbers of the camera's not in the order they were taken.
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They all of a sudden started coming down that hill in my direction. For a moment I thought they might come up and visit me on the opposite side of this little valley. I was preparing to run until they stopped in the bottom.
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In case you haven't noticed, this is Rut season for the Rams...
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They stopped and stood around in the bottom for a while.
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That is the whole bunch...
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They were running fast down that hill though.....
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Taking a breather....
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Time to lay down a bit....
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This was the bigger Ram of the bunch. You could tell he was boss...
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They finally laid down and chewed the cud for quite a while. When I left they were still laying around.
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The big Ram was in the middle of all the ladies while the other two were on the fringes
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Still laying around...
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There he is.....
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The big Ram.. This is where I picked up the T1i Rebel with the 100mm X 400mm is telephoto lens. (with the Canon APS-C sensor the 1.6 factor converts to 150mm X 640mm)
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A ewe up close....
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Where the Ram and Ewe and standing is where the whole groups came down the hill from. They went to the right of where the two that are at the bottom are standing in this photo.
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This is a zoom of those two....
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