A pair of sub adult red deer stags find their moment under the Winter sun.

An image taken on a cold winter morning, in difficult conditions due to the lack of light and lack of space in a wood full of fallen branches that made it difficult to stalk the deer without spooking them as you couldn't walk without stepping on dry branches & twigs cracking under your shoes.

I waited for over 2 hours in the freezing cold, as I followed a group of stags walking across this wood. I was hoping that one or a couple of them would separate from the group for me to get an uncluttered frame. I was lucky that this pair of trailing stags stopped to take a breath, probably disturbed by a sound in the wood. They could not have placed themselves in a better spot. You can see the condensation as the stag at the back exhaled just as I let my shutter go in the cold morning air.

Image shot in the U.K.

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