A North Carolina photographer dove headfirst, literally, into his assignment when he came face-to-face with an elk. James York was
photographing elk at sunrise in the Cataloochee Valley of the Great
Smoky Mountains National Park in Gatlinburg, Tenn., when one of the elk
on which he had his lens focused approached him. "He came up peacefully enough," York said. "I was hoping he might just take a little sniff and move away but he didn't." Instead, the elk began nuzzling York, sniffing at his leg and forcefully
nudging his antlers into York's head, which York did his best to keep
down. "I'm thinking, 'Don't show him fear,'" York said. "He was prancing and
digging his hoofs in the ground and then bouncing back and forth and
lowering his horns down and coming at me fairly aggressive."...more
Here's the ABC News report:
http://youtu.be/AOxNzCgh_fw
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