Family Picnic

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Family Picnic

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Gary Holmes

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Photograph

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A family of Pronghorns (Antilocapra americana), including a yearling and a calf, grazes on a hillside surrounded by yellow and orange autumn leaves, while Papa stands guard in the Lamar Valley area of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. This beautiful valley is known for its wildlife, and on any given day, a careful observer will likely see close encounters between grazing animals and predators such as grizzly bears and gray wolves.

From the San Diego Zoo: The pronghorn is an original Native American. It has no close relative on this or any other continent. This interesting animal goes by many names: pronghorn antelope, prongbuck, and American antelope. The pronghorn is often called an antelope, and it does look like many antelope species. Yet it is different enough to warrant its own taxonomic family, Antilocapridae. - See more at: http://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/pronghorn#sthash.dMDiKp9r.dpufThe horns of the pronghorn help make it unique: they are a cross between horns and antlers, with qualities of both. True antlers are made of bone and shed each year; true horns are made of compressed keratin that grows from a bony core and are never shed. The horns adorning the pronghorn are neither true horns nor true antlers. Instead, the sheath is made of keratin but the horns shed yearly. - See more at: http://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/pronghorn#sthash.dMDiKp9r.dpuf
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Gary Holmes, photographer: I have always loved to photograph nature, landscapes, abstract, and other found objects of interest. Although I have staged single and group portraits and still life photographs, I prefer the challenge of trying to capture the unpredictable spontaneity of things and events as they are occurring. I started with a Kodak Brownie as a child, but entered the world of real photography with a Canon AE-1 in the late 1970's. I have continued to develop my compositional and post-processing skills and have slowly acquired higher quality e

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