Lenny Gorski first noticed piebald deer – two of them – while searching for bucks to photograph more than three decades ago. “A piebald deer will have white mixed into its coat, and no two are the same,” Gorski said. “I’ve seen one that looked as if a gallon of white paint was thrown on it, and I’ve seen them more spotted.” The rare genetic anomaly that produces piebald coloring sometimes also causes deer to have shorter legs, a bowed nose and short mandibles, spine curvature, and malformed organs. Gorski took this photograph in October 2024 in Branford, Connecticut, during the rutting season. “This buck stood there for a long time,” he said. “But the light was low and the trees limited the shots I could get. I’m hoping to run into him again.”