A relatively obliging male – sans harem – was willing to throw a few poses for me for about thirty or forty minutes. It’s from one morning last week, once again in Richmond Park, near London.

It’s a kind of semi-silhouette, and again I was without a tripod, finding bits of trunk and deadwood to press my lens up against. It wasn’t really a silhouette photo, but I made it so by making a one and a half stop adjustment in Adobe Lightroom.

Taken using a Nikon D700 with a 300 f4.0 lens at f/4.0, 1/125 and ISO 1000.