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I photographed this red deer stag late one evening in my local deer park during the rutting season. Throughout the autumn the deer will often walk over a ridge which is backlit by the setting sun. On this particular evening the sky had been very overcast and a strip of clearer sky had just broke on the horizon after the sun set.