After visiting Big Moor near Sheffield for the last few years to photograph the red deer rut, an amazing location and experience by the way, this year I wanted to try something different. My plan this time was to get up there before sunrise and not only image and film the deer but this time take along sound recording equipment to give you the sounds of the rut as well. I have to say I arrived before sunrise in blue hour and I can only describe the noise as like being in a church tower listening to a peel of bells as one male after another roared with a slightly different tone. I suspect I was a little awe struck as I had never witnessed sound like this before at any rut. Great you might say but all did not go to plan!