Scotland is a great place for lanscape dalebe, you should definately go!, luckily for me my auntie and uncle run a bed & breakfast Guest House in a small fishing village up there so i always have an excuse to visit.
As for the deer picture, All the pictures above were taken with a compact digital 2.1 megapixel with a 6x optical zoom, i was about 10 metres away and took the shot thru a car window whilst moving!, it ran away out of site seconds after i took it.
I Didnt have DSLR at the time so i had to make do