Series: A Day at Bosque: [41] It was a Close Encounter

(Coyote) Bosque de Apache, New Mexico

This is a continuation of my series of images from my two weeks at Bosque. My intent is to make the images flow as though they all occurred during a single day. Of course, they occurred during the two weeks I was there.

This is the forty first post of the series. The time is now 13:43 pm.

If you thought the last one was close, I forgot to mention that I got three frames of this coyote. The first one, this one and one where it is trotting away at a pretty good clip. (I won't be posting the last one.)

I tried a bunch of crops on this one and this is the best I could come up with. It is full height and only cropped a tiny bit from the left. I tried a more standard 5:4 ratio and I simply couldn't make it work right. I also didn't really have enough DOF at the distance but I did manage to get one of the eyes and a few whiskers in focus. I guess I should have stopped down some. I'll try and remember that if there is a next time.

Maybe I should have labeled it for the Motif, it is pretty close to just eyes.

Window mounted Nikon D1H, 600mm AFS, TC-14EII, ISO 250, Aperture Priority, EV+0.3, 1/1250 @ F5.6.