Few big game animals in North America can express the elegant fortitude and heart aching beauty of the Bighorn Sheep.
They are the quintessential Rocky Mountain beast, perfectly at home on impossibly rugged, windswept ridges and the broken, snag-jumbled country where mere mortals, and angels fear to tread.
Occasionally, they place themselves where the average person can get a full view.
Wildlife Photographer Frank Donofrio of Glenwood Springs, Colorado caught this band of Bighorn Sheep on an island in the middle of The Frying Pan River above Basalt, Colorado. They offer us a brief and compelling look into a world most often not easily observed. The images are absolutely stunning, and I am left with an overwhelming desire for more.
Fortunately, that is within my realm of possibility, for they are often seen not too far from my comfortable chair.
I think I shall have a good look for them, today...
After all, someone has to do it!
These photographs originally appeared at our online sporting journal at
http://throughahunterseyes.com/the-bighorns-oying-pan-river/
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*A big shout out to Frank Donofrio. Your photographs are truly appreciated!