Cooling the Blood 2

Just back from the October Red Deer Rut in Richmond Park! The temperatures were unseasonably high and on the day I captured this image it reached 25 degrees. To escape the heat the Deer sought sanctuary in the shade of the trees and in this case a muddy pond in the woods. This is one of my favourite images from the trip of a Hind cooling herself in the muddy boarders of the pond. A shaft of light pierced through a gap in the tree canopy illuminating the Deer against the shadows and dark brown mud.