FAWNING OVER BERRY COLLEGE

Because there are so many subjects to report from our day trip to Berry College, this may be a multi-blog Saturday. The school is 153 miles south of us in Rome, Georgia and is distinguished as having the largest contiguous campus in the world at around 22,000 acres. We first heard of Berry College last winter from another photographer who told Marcy about the School’s bald eagle nest, which is made famous by a 24-hour Webcam focused on eagle parents feeding their young. On the way back from Atlanta back in March, we managed a quick side-trip to visit the eagles and vowed to return. Last week, another photographer told Marcy about the abundance of fawns on the campus right now, so we figured head down today. We rolled out of bed at 4:00 AM so we could make the 2 1/2 hour trip with some morning “golden hour” light still on the deer. Marcy and I both had dreams of getting the perfect shot of baby fawns in the perfect early morning light. That goal evaded us. Nevertheless, I do think we got some decent ones. The pictures we saw from another photographer were fabulous and will be our standard for the next trip. Today, we shot hundreds of frames between us and I just pulled a few random ones to showcase here.