On a beautiful fall day in 2014, it seemed like a good idea (at the time) to go into the mountains to chase elk. It was a beautiful day, and the weather was perfect for such an activity. Up on the Kolob Terrace section of Zion National Park, it was easy to go off into the wilderness to go look for elk. Something to remember, this is the fall, and during the fall is rutting season for the elk. Coming into a clearing with beautiful vistas of lower Zion and the plateaus in Arizona off in the distance, I decided to stand on this boulder to look over the scrub oak and photograph this view.
If you look closer, there is a watcher in the brush. He was looking at me very intently and I was starting to get a bit nervous, because he’s only about 30 feet away and the only thing between us is the brush. I spoke to him and told him I was only taking his photograph, and he settled down. I got a little higher up on the boulder and realized he had a lady friend there on the ground and I was interrupting him. Oops…
Kelly Guymon Photography 