Mde Moose

[KMann]

She was quite a bit off the road and I took this one with a not so great cheap lens hence the red bits on the edges. Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada a few years ago in the summer. She didn't seem to mind people stopping with cameras. I think she thinks it's her job.

http://www.katherinemann.ca/images/mrsmoose.jpg

[Antarctican]

I can't access your image on my Mac (a common problem with your images, for some reason). I'll have to check back when I'm on my PC, as I'd love to see a moose shot. Errr, let me rephrase that, a shot of a moose.

[KMann]

Antartican - that is surprising that you can't access them. They are just jpgs created with Lightroom from RAW files. I wonder if anyone else has the same problem.

[Antarctican]

I'm on my PC now and can see it. But when I'm on my Mac, I just get a tiny blue box with a question mark, which when I click on it, sometimes does (and sometimes doesn't) send me to a new window with your image.


I love the moose pic! It even looks like she's smiling. How close do you think you were when you took it?

[KMann]

Antarctican, I was quite a long way from her and using a 300mm, which gives about 490 when you factor in the size of the processor in my camera. She was just in the bush on the side of the highway through Algonquin Park a few years ago. Quite a few people had stopped to have a look and she seemed to be completely cool with it. I like this one because she does seem to have a little smile and a bright look about her eye (somewhat aided and abetted by moi). I like these creatures. They are only really scary in rutting season and seem pretty laid back the rest of the time.

I actually ran into a bull moose halfway up a mountain in Ingonish Nova Scotia a few years ago. We surprised each other coming around a bend. He looked, I looked, he snorted, I climbed backwards, he slide sideways, watching, I slid sideways, watching. When we had got a safe distance from one another we pretended that it was all in a day's fun and sauntered away with our dignity intact. I was thrilled.

[Antarctican]

As would I be thrilled!! I have only twice seen a moose in the wild. Once a young one was running along the ditch beside the highway in the NorthEast of the US (possibly Maine), and once an adult male was spotted in the woods beside a road in New Brunswick. I jumped out of the car and ran back with my camera but it had ambled off. I'd love to have a (safe) photo encounter with one.

[polymoog]

Lovely, I've seen moose (or elk as they are called here) in the wild quite a few times here, but never when I have a camera with me ... http://www.polymoog.se/smilies/doh.gif

[KMann]

Polymoog, I think Moose and Elk are two different creatures. These are elk:

http://www.katherinemann.ca/images/elk.jpg

They must be related as they resemble each other but elk are much more like deer. The elk pictured above are not wild. We have many wild deer here. Elk were hunted out by the middle of the last century in this area. It is a shame.

Where in Sweden do you live? I think we have remarked how much the area that I live in is like Sweden.

[polymoog]

K, elk are what we call the creatures in your original shot, not sure what those are in the second, as you say some kind of deer like animal ... might be that elk means different things between Europe and Canada in that case :)

I live near a town called Umeå, which is more or less on the coast (a little way upstream), about 600km north of Stockholm. Population 110 000, not much going on .... ;)

[Aggie]

I actually ran into a bull moose halfway up a mountain in Ingonish Nova Scotia a few years ago. We surprised each other coming around a bend. He looked, I looked, he snorted, I climbed backwards, he slide sideways, watching, I slid sideways, watching. When we had got a safe distance from one another we pretended that it was all in a day's fun and sauntered away with our dignity intact. I was thrilled.

When we lived in Prk City Utah we had moose all over the place. It was funny to see a Chevy Suburban facing off with a big bull. The bull was backing it up on a frontage road near the freeway. The belly of the moose was about the roof line of the suburban.

Another time a moose was on the football field of the HS. The local cops in jeeps were oput there trying to herd it off the field. I kept running past them and would sit under the goal posts at either end and snort at them. It finally just walked away when the cops stopped chasing it. Moose are fun animals to watch.

[EricD]

Nice capture.......

p.s. I use Mac computer as well and see your pic(s) just fine!