After 14 hours of working, Scott Black, a pharmacist and amateur photographer, was finally leaving. Unfortunately, the floods kept him holed up in his office in Louisiana and the water was getting close.
“Approaching our building but still a mile and a half to two miles down the road. It was rising slowly but steady and we did have some concern of the water getting to us,” explains Black.
The flood caused so much damage. Folks were doing everything they can to help their neighbors and animals.
Black was lucky to capture something really powerful as he was leaving his office that day.
Black was walking to his car when he saw a pickup truck.
“The driver stopped and I told him hello and he pointed for me to go to the passenger rear door to see something,” Black says.
There was a baby deer, who has been rescued from the floods. The deer was exhausted but somehow looked happy.
“It was amazing to see this tiny fawn just lying in someone’s lap,” says Black.
Black snapped a few photos with his phone and then he went to grab his professional camera. It looked like the deer began to pose.
“It had been a long day and I had family, friends and employees that had been flooded so the mood was somber at best, but seeing that fawn lying there was such a sign of peace and hope,” says Black.
“I’ve seen so many images of disaster and of rescues of humans and other animals alike. I would love to have captured each and every one on camera just to let people see what has happened here.”
The rescued baby deer has been taken to a local farm where he’s doing great.
Source: The Dodo