The third picture of the elk has a farm in the background. Our deer and elk here are very, very shy. You only see them way up in the hills and they take off as soon as they see you.
Ah - I think ours get a little accustomed to the things of man... I think they have to to get where they need to go. They come down into those valleys for winter and head up into the higher elevations for summer.
Elk remain a little more wary than deer I think, but they're spotted in their prime areas fairly frequently.