Coyote at Moraine Park

Commentary is welcomed.

Beautiful shot, Larry.

Your animal and bird work really show great strength on those subjects.

Wow, is that beautiful! The composition, colors, everything is breathtaking!

Bill, Kurt, and Kim

 

Thank you very much for those kind words of encouragement.

 

 

I was in RMNP hoping to get some bull elk photos during the rut. All of a sudden out of nowhere this guy showed up. I see coyotes all the time in the Park but they normally won't let anyone get too close. He was gone just as quickly as he appeared. I only got two shots of him and this is the better of the two.

Jeez, you had a great weekend out! :) The colors here are wonderful - did you blur out the bush on the far right? It seems as though it's on the same plane as the coyote, but it's blurred which makes it a bit distracting for me - still, it's a wonderful composition. Great capture!

Thank you Kathy. Long time no speak to paraphrase an old saying.

 

That bush was really quite a bit farther away than the coyote. So to answer your question no I didn't blur it. Matter of fact I didn't do anything fancy in post processing at all. I had the camera set to auto white balance. It looked good to me so I just used that setting when I decoded the raw file. In Photoshop I did the USM trick for local contrast enhancement, gave it a slight curves tweek, and used an edge sharpening routine. Thats all I did to it and thats pretty minimal really.

 

You know its odd. Sometimes it is a real struggle trying to capture or record a scene the way I want it. More often than not I really don't know how something is going to look until I get it out of the camera and process it.

 

But once in a blue moon everything comes together perfectly. Its difficult to explain but the moment I touch the shutter I just know that I am going to be happy with the results. Thats the way it was with this photo.

I love it when that happens :) And this is a real beauty - and now, upon closer look, you're right, that bush is further off. Don't know why I thought it was so close. I've posted some new pics too (yeah, about time!) if you care to take a look :)

I'll take a peek at your latest. :)

Larry, excellent capture. I can imagine how difficult and lucky for you to take a shot like this. I wish I could have the chance to see a coyote in the wild. Your latest wild animal uploads are excellent.

Thank you Jerry. I appreciate that. I haven't had much luck in the past getting close enough to photograph coyotes because they are fairly wary beasts. I was just lucky with this shot. This guy showed up out of nowhere and then disappeared so fast it made my head spin.