Ram Tough
My main reason for heading up the South Fork was to get a few shots of the big horn sheep that winter in this area. Forest regs instruct you to stay several hundred feet away from the sheep to avoid stressing them. Fortunately for me, this big ram bedded down right on the dirt road - without exiting my car, I shot this image with my 70-300mm lens at 300mm (1/10 sec. at f5.6). With the 2x crop factor of my Olympus E500 (which gives this lens a 35mm equivalent reach of 600mm) and some aggressive cropping in post-processing, I arrived at this interesting composition. Turned out to be one of my favorite shots of the day.
