ORIGINAL: vc1111
The ambient light cause the images of the trees to be registered first; the animal jumps and the flash trips and captures the image of the deer frozen in midair. The timer on the camera would naturally have a very slight delay before causing the flash to trip...thus the brighter light shining through the trees would register sharp enough to be registered first with the overlay of the animal captured by the flash. The flash does NOT fire as the precise moment that the lens opens to capture the image. It is essentially physically impossible.
This is absolutely correct. And it makes total sense.
And as for the blood, I've seen what looked like an explosion of blood at the impact-sights on a few of my deer. Deer are instantly in motion when they're hit and yet there's blood all over the place where they're hit. Anyone whose followed a blood trail and seen the deer running knows they bleed ALOT and fast when hit in the right place.
I believe it's real, 100%.
Tardcakes....that was funny.