Coyote

Nice Coyote EJ. I really like it walking into the frame.

Steve

How many times did you make him do this ? Your model is clearly feeling the effects of a long and repetitious shoot ....

Nice coyote shot by the way

I know you were kidding but just to make sure everyone knows. This is not a model or game farm animal. this coyote is in the wild in RMNP. He basically did not care that I was shooting him and gave me a good 45 minutes of his time. He was obviously very relaxed around me. Soon after this yawn, he laid down right in front of me and took a nap. I was completely out in the open and was not hidden from him in any way either.

Nice cooperative subject who thought you were pretty boring. Good shot with excellent comp.

Great shot of one of my favorite subjects.

I suspect he's not yawning, he's laughing at the quacking sounds Duckman was making to get his attention

I like this as a tight and detailed portrait of a coyote. It would make a good field guide photo, I think. Given the amount of time the animal was around you, I would have hoped for some poses with a look into those eyes.

Cheers,
ben

Sweet shot. He looks like I feel. Just having trouble getting the day started. Great job!

benjamin r miller wrote:I like this as a tight and detailed portrait of a coyote. It would make a good field guide photo, I think. Given the amount of time the animal was around you, I would have hoped for some poses with a look into those eyes.

Hi Ben, good to see you here. You probably missed some of my earlier posts of this guy.

Nice shot E.J.! Its good he was so relaxed in your presence.

E.J. Peiker wrote:I know you were kidding

Sometimes you're the only one who gets my humour I'd seen your earlier shots of the same subject so didn't even pause to think someone might think it was captive. To put it in context - I'd just driven home from work (guess what EJ - fighting a scratch issue on a CMP tool ) and was listening to an interview with an actress on NPR. She was recounting how as a little girl she had been in a scene which required eating an ice-cream. It was reshot 21 times or something. That's an awful lot of ice cream to eat. Then I see your photo of a coyote heading home after a long day at the office .....

CMP is one of those necessary evils in our industry

E.J. Peiker wrote:CMP is one of those necessary evils in our industry

You know what they say - CMP = Continuous Maintenance Program

Love the shot. Only problem is it makes me yawn!

Now would you clue the rest of us in. What is CMP? (Chimps making photos? :roll: )

Rich

Rich S wrote:
Now would you clue the rest of us in. What is CMP? (Chimps making photos? :roll: )

Rich

EJ and I are both in the semiconductor industry. CMP is Chemical Mechanical Polishing. Now most semiconductor processes are high energy high tech stuff (I'm a plasma physicist, or at least I was many years ago). CMP on the other hand is pretty close to using a buffing pad on a power drill to shine up your car with some special wax. Trouble is you have to keep changing your buffing pads, the power drill has a mind of it's own and if you look sideways at the wax it bites you Then of course there are the cleaning chemicals - some of those render you sterile or kill you on contact. It's actually pretty small potatoes compared to the gases I also work with like phosphine, diborane, silane, arsine, etc, etc. Some of those have an odour of "impending doom", some explode more powerfully than C3 and some do both. Oh I do love my work ......

If you smell fish or garlic in a fab, you are probably already dead, you just don't know it yet. Fortunately that never happens!

E.J. Peiker wrote:If you smell fish or garlic in a fab, you are probably already dead, you just don't know it yet. Fortunately that never happens!

Thanks E.J. and Andrew. Note to self: never ever enter a fab!

Rich

Rich S wrote:Thanks E.J. and Andrew. Note to self: never ever enter a fab!

Actually the semiconductor industry has by far the best safety record of any industry in existence. We litterlally spend billions on it.