I find the two animal gestures work against each other and keep the photograph from becoming a picture. But I think you have two superb pictures here. One with the more stately pose and the two trees others have mentioned, and another with the pose with the less immediately decipherable contours. In the first case, the whole is beautifully of-a-piece, and tranquilly balanced, with just the hair on the back of the animal, and the bump of the chest muscles, and the very slight tilt of the head, registering a kind of potency in reserve. The white birds (?) on the ground complete the scene. In the second case, the tranquility of the environment is countered by the awkward stance of the animal. One looks for its eyes, and one realizes they are focussed in the murky low afar, and one feels that the tranquility is charged with a very different kind of potential.
Light and edges v. nice throughout, esp. around the contours of the animals and in the soft light above the grasslands but below the lower green canopy.
The band of light is too light for my taste, but is surely not the kind of thing one can judge well from an on-line image.
A pleasure to view and to examine.
