One of the reasons I use remote cameras is because they allow me to take photographs where no sane photographer could possibly pull it off. I had the cameras in place for six days before these photographs were taken. The nights were frigid and dark, and yet the cameras waited patiently.
Water on the lens makes this elk appear as if it is emerging from the ghostly shadows of a nocturnal forest (above).
I pulled the cameras after they were in place for 10 days, primarily because of a massive series of storms moving in from the Pacific. The weather had already been bad, and I had experienced several technical problems, and near destruction caused by water in the past.
My remote camera system has new waterproof connectors, and better weather housing, but I wasn't quite ready to leave it in the flood plain of a small creek.
In one image, the elk passed extremely close to a camera placed very low.
Just inches from the muddy ground, the camera lens received a coating of muck.
