I took this photo of a newborn deer fawn in Kensington Metro Park just outside of Detroit in the 90s. The amazing thing about baby deer is they know instinctively not to move until their legs are strong enough to run. The newborn was camouflaged very well, but movement is immediately discernable from a great distance. I used this built-in defensive mechanism to photograph it -- with a tripod -- from about 5 feet away. The mother was browsing out of sight, and as I placed the tripod and choose the settings for the medium format film camera I used at the time, the fawn didn't move a muscle. It didn't even blink. The numbers were unrecorded, but knowing how I always shot with film, they were probably 1/60, f/11, and I used Fujichrome Provia 100 film (100 ISO). I remember using a 250mm Mamiya lens which is equivalent to approximately a 135mm lens in the full-frame digital format.
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