Wandering is something most people know the definition of so I'm not going to explain it. Stag means male deer but the other definition I am going to use for stag is a man who attends social gatherings alone. The reason for using wandering is because I tend to wander around events in an irregular course because as I see things I want to photograph I will change direction or casually walk around lo
oking for things to photograph. I also like traveling and just going for drives without really having a destination. Because of these reasons, wandering is a good fit for me. The reason for using stag is to pay homage to my last name as well as to my ethnic origins and where I was brought up. Ethnically I am mostly Russian-German and Hart in the German region means stag. I was brought up in Montana and often saw deer because I lived in the country. Deer season was a major event when I was growing up sometimes to the point of over half the school being out on opening day. While I have never been deer hunting myself I have butchered several and a lot of people in my family use deer for food and to make things out of. They also happen to be quite tasty and fascinating animals. I am also using stag because I tend to attend social gatherings (parties/events/etc) alone, especially when I am going there specifically to photograph them. So when you put wandering and stag together you get Wandering Stag.
