BosnMate
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This is Beatys Butte, south eastern Oregon, looking almost due north from where hiway 140 crosses the cattle guard into Nevada. Beatys Butte is just about as far from nowhere as a person can get by car in the lower 48, and it's not a good road. You are looking across an ancient lake bottom, and a little rain can make a miserable muddy mess, and being stuck out there can be a real life threatening situation. I had an antelope tag, and we were camping, which is why we were there. This is a lead up to one of my favorite pictures that I've ever taken. Just one of those times when you have a camera, and everything comes together. On the other side of the low ridge to the right of the picture there is a dry wash that the road follows heading up onto the mountain. Believe it or not, also on the other side of that ridge there is one tree, a single Juniper tree, but I didn't get a picture of that. When driving up that dry wash, there was a cut bank to my left, so that the window of the truck on the drivers side was even with the level of the desert floor. As we drove up the hill, some deer had run out of the brush and we were kind of looking in their direction when I spotted this little guy. She wasn't more than 10 feet away, frozen in place, figuring she was well hidden, which she was, because I had to do a double take to see her. Look close, her butt is facing the camera, and her head is turned back to the left looking at the truck, with here huge ears giving her away. I took the picture and drove on, and she never moved while we were there.
