Oops, suddenly the coyote sees me...

Dave, I took one look at this and said to myself "I bet that's one of Dave Stephens'!" And, so it is. Very nice, and consistent with your quality and style. It's really hard to catch these critters in both daylight and the open, so very well done. What did you have to do to make this opportunity happen, or was it just being ready for the unexpected?

Thank you.

 

Hi David, in 2011, I was sitting on the door sill of my car, looking to the front, trying to shoot a pheasant flying across the road, where they normally crossed. I felt a presence behind me and turned to see this coyote, just as it saw me. I was down at it's level, with a 500mm lens on a Canon 7D.

 

I'm trying to get this to Sam, for his Photo Of The Week thread in Casual Conversations. I had it Public for a few moments. Hopefully, he can grab it. I may need to just send him a file. I normally use Flickr, but I didn't want people to see the reference to me. I love it that you recognize my signature style, which simply just happened.

 

The side story to this picture is that Getty Images sell this image for me almost every month. The Boston Globe first used it in a story about urban coyote. Now, any journalist writing a similar story Googles, sees this in other stories and that it's available from Getty, so they click and I make another few bucks. Although it's sold dozens of times, I've probably made less than $600 on it.