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A provocative follow-up today. I have taken artistic license to make a commentary, hopefully a visceral one.

Personally, I get bored with the current trends in photography, typically aligned around beauty. It may be my age, but pretty is pretty shallow. I yearn for content and commentary.

So I have decided to say something. I have leveraged the previous scope image and taken us, not on a graphic journey, but a hypothetical experience. I have attempted to place the audience inside the scope, sighting down on this doe. I hope the connection elicits a response, not to take any one side on the hunting or gun issue, but primarly as an experiment in the power of images – and the diptych – to evoke emotion and communicate. To pull on heartstrings further, it has been pointed out to me that the doe is pregnant.

The image, like the power of the scope, was shot with a 200mm telephoto lens at our Montana residence. I purposely created the strong circle element in the image to not only emulate the view through the scope, but also to graphically connect the two images together.

Does this visual experiment work for you, do your feel transported into the scope? Do you experience the hunter’s POV? Do you like this conversation between images? If so, take a moment and comment below, or follow/like us on our Facebook or Instagram pages.