Coyote

My wife and I went out to Fish Springs NWR today. While driving along one of the dikes, the smell was just horrible. We thought something had died. Ahead, on one of the bridges, sat a group of ravens. They would take turns flying down into the stream under and nearby the bridge. "Let's stop and see if something is dead in there." Just as she started to open the door, a coyote jumped up out of the water not 10 feet from her. She screamed "it's alive!" and tossed my camera at me. I jumped out and managed to get these shots.

I hope you enjoy them even half as much as we enjoyed the experience.


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OMG, Are you lucky or what? Great series capture. I'll bet you wish the spray had shown up more on the shake shot, but you would have missed detail in the next two.

Were you in continuous shoot, or snapping individual shots?

Great series. The last one is poster worthy!!!!!!!

Coyotes smell worse than skunks. HAHAHAHA

No offense, but I think these have been over-sharpened. Great captures though.

MetalTom.
Very, very nice shots!!
The last one, it's just magic!!!
In my conception, and as unconditional enthusiast of nature photographies that I am, one of the best scenes than I could already notice here, up to now.
It's genuine nature picture. Congratulations!

Fabulous series. The last one is just wonderful.

Fantastic series Tom, love the last....going for the bug!

Awesome shots Tom. Love the detail and sharpness of these images.

+1 for being just a tad crisp but really nice work.

The last two are NatGeo worthy or at least

Ya I agree. Just a bit too much sharpening, but absolutely incredible shots, especially the last one!

Supurb series.

sparker1 wrote in post #6568677
No offense, but I think these have been over-sharpened. Great captures though.

No offense taken. I appreciate an honest evaluation. I've seen a lot of your work and respect your opinion.

FlyingPhotog wrote in post #6570125
+1 for being just a tad crisp but really nice work.

The last two are NatGeo worthy or at least

pwrmac wrote in post #6570252
Ya I agree. Just a bit too much sharpening, but absolutely incredible shots, especially the last one!

Again, thanks for the honest evaluation, and thanks for the praise.

Thanks to all who commented.

When processing images for web display I use the manyk srs action for resizing and sharpening. This is probably the first series of images I've posted that could do with the default (or less) from this action. Normally, I can up the final layer's slider to near 90% with good results. I reworked the last image and left it at the default for the action. Let me know if this is an improvement or still needing some work.

Reworked (LESS sharpening)

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That last shot is killer. Nice job.

A little late, but what a great series especially #'s 5+6.

5 and 6 are great!!!!