Red deer stags Cervus elaphus in Richmond Park, London. Around 300 Red deer live as wild herds within the ancient, 955-hectare park. Once developed as a hunting park by King Charles 1st when he moved his court to nearby Richmond Palace to escape the Great Plague of 1637. Today, the park is a National Nature Reserve and the largest of the London parks, and includes London’s oldest oak trees, around 750 years old. The acid grassland of Richmond Park is a nationally important habitat dependent on deer grazing to maintain its diversity.
Sophie Carr is a London-based photographer, specialising in landscape and seascape photography in Iceland. Having travelled extensively around the world, her true photographic passion is winter Icelandic landscapes.
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