Before anyone else starts comparing B&W photos to what deer ACTUALLY see, check out the " Deer vision" thread over at TR' s tips forum.

Highly correlated with this subject.

Might as well take those B&W photos and throw ' em in the trash as they' re really quite useless, no offense to anyone. They' re just not good representatives of what a deer actually envisions in the world.

Atlasman: very nice summation. However, deer do look up in trees nowadays, and I would hate to look like a gigantic black blob of tree fungus 15 feet off the ground , if ya' know what I mean...and being that treestands are now painted either olive, grey or camo, they most likely resemble very ugly-shaped tree branches to a deer.