beige and brown deer antlers stacked near brown wooden carriage wheel inside room at daytime

My father lives in the house his great-great grandfather homesteaded in the late 1800’s, and has been “storing” things in this barn for his entire life.  He is especially proud of his antler collection, which he adds to by walking around the mountains in rural Montana where we live and picking up sheds.  This picture was taken one sunny day in preparation for a tour of the barn given by the Montana Historical Society.

Logan Smith

Nathan Lemon

September to November is the red deer rut in the Northern Hemisphere. The adult stags begin to bellow, something they can only do at this special time of year. If you look carefully at the deer in the photo, you can see a wound in his side from another stag where they have fought. This deer was well and healing a few days later when I saw him again.

Diana Parkhouse

Annika Westerholt

Edit: Hi there. Did you know that this photo has been viewed over 6 million times? That kind of blows my mind. Anyway, just wanted to say hi and enjoy the photo!

Early in the morning as the sun rises, the red deer stag was resting in his earth bed on the hill.

Bailey Littlejohn

Jon Tyson

We were on one of our many roadtrips on the Isle of Skye. We drove on a curvy road and after a curve we suddenly saw four deer right by the side of the road. We stopped the car, got out quietly and spent a long time taking shots of them. I love this shot because it shows so much detail of the horns. The most fascinating part of the deer.

Antler