Mule Deer in Southern Utah

The awesome thing about these photos of me with my favorite animal ever, is that they were in the wild, and I am not zoomed in. Can you believe the awesomeness!? We were walking along one of the trails and I saw them off into a pasture, so I started taking some pics and then decided, what the heck, let's see how close I can get. I have like a million pictures as I progressively got closer and closer, but these are when I was as close as I got.

One of my favorite memories is that on a number of occasions I tried to zoom out, but I couldn't because I was already on the way zoomed out!

(Dad) You should definitely click on the photos to make them larger to see the detail in the photos. I love how in the last couple pictures you can see the curly hair in the deer's ears.

The big buck wasn't moving so I walked away to get capture some more photos of the doe's.

But one of the buck's I was eyeing walked over towards the other, so I followed it over again.

And then I walked right on up to it again.

I asked Mike to come get a photo of me by the deer. I had spent probably 30 minutes with them and they were letting me get a few feet away from them, literally. But when Mike came with me, it kinda spooked them and they ran away before I got too close.

So Mike left and I attempted to get close to them again.

Then I walked a little closer:

I was literally like two to three feet away from these beautiful creatures:

Then it ran away, but stopped to look back at me (I think it was half hoping i would follow):

It was such an amazing day - the hiking was good but the deer - well... they were AMAZING!