The Plan vs the Reality in wildlife photography

Sometimes people think wow animals are always posing so majestically, and that's understandable as most photographers only show that side of wildlife. It must be wonderful seeing wildlife all the time, you say. It is wonderful seeing wildlife so often, but they are not always posing majestically. Most of the time they are like us humans in that they just want to relax, to be lying around their homes in sweats so to speak.

Let's look at this photograph as an example. I found this young pronghorn taking a nap in the pasture. Here he was minding his own business. I get my camera set up and get some photos of him laying there. I can tell he is growing tired of me and I get ready as sometimes they get up and you get a couple of nice majestic shots followed by a highspeed shot or two as majestically run miles away from you. Well, this one like many a lazy human just got up, stretched, probably had bad morning breath, hair out of place, etc, etc. Never turned and gave me that majestic headshot that we are used to seeing in most artwork. Never ran. He just squatted and took a poop. Yes, that's poop pellets in midair for this ummm glamorous wildlife shoot.
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Thanks for traveling along with me in the wilderness.

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West Texas Pronghorn 001085 by Renny Spencer (aka the Plan)

Pronghorn Pooping 001245 by Renny Spencer (aka the reality)