Caribou Stag Crosses Snow Crust Fairbanks Evening in beside a tidal inlet near Fairbanks

Caribou Stag Crosses Snow Crust Fairbanks Evening

by Jessie Parrish

Honeyed evening light spills across a frozen tidal inlet near Fairbanks, illuminating a caribou stag mid-stride. The animal pushes through a hard crust of snow that cracks under its heavy hooves, sending small sprays of ice into the air. A dense frame of dark, leafless willow branches surrounds the upper left corner, creating a natural window around the stag. Distant birds burst from the snow surface in a chaotic scatter of white wings, against the stag's patient, predatory stillness. Soft snowflakes drift downward, catching the fading golden glow. The texture of the snow crust is rough and granular, while the stag's thick winter coat appears dense and matted with frost near the shoulders. A long, dark shadow stretches across the ice to the right.

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Camera Sony a6100*AI-imagined, not shot. For real Sony a6100 photos, grab one online.
Focal Length 398mm
Aperture f/5.6
Shutter Speed 1/1000
ISO 6400
Film processed in Photoshop
Location beside a tidal inlet near Fairbanks
Date 2019-07-07
Credit VEETER
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