While my granddaughter has soccer practice, I like to go for a walk on the trails located just behind the practice fields. The area is full of wildlife because there is a year-round stream that runs through the property. My only problem is her practices start at 6:30PM, just when it's getting dark. The last week or two, I've needed to bring a headlamp with me so I can see the trail.
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| iPhone 12 mini, f 1.6, ISO 500, 1/25th second (no tripod). |
After taking this photo, on my hike back to the soccer field, a large coyote crossed the trail in front of me and stopped and looked at me, as if trying to determine if I were a threat (or perhaps a meal?). I was in total darkness and never would have spotted him without my headlamp. He was larger than the desert coyotes I'm used to seeing, closer in size to a German Shepherd, and his fur was darker. With my headlamp shining towards him, his eyes glowed. Solitary coyotes in the desert never bother me, but this guy spooked me a bit. For the rest of my hike, I found myself turning around and facing backwards from time to time to check for glowing eyes. Maybe this helps explain why I've never seen anyone else hiking in the area after darkš«¢.
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Dearest Peter,
ReplyDeleteWOW, that coyote was a scary encounter on your trail!
Love the way the trail is fenced or wide enough for enjoying its nature.
Hugs,
Mariette
Excellent photos with your phone. My brother sometimes takes a shot on his phone when we're out together and I'm often amazed at how well it copes with scenes with difficult lighting. Isn't it great that young women can nowadays enjoy a full range of team sports?
ReplyDeleteYou know my cheap version Iphone does a great job dealing with difficult lighting situations. Sometimes I wish the cameras came with options like the phone does. It would be nice to be able to upload camera apps to the camera to not only help take the photo and then edit it. We're close to that now with the wifi file transfer capabilities that phones have to send photos to the phones.
ReplyDeleteThe city coyotes are a lot bigger and fatter than the country coyotes. Lots of plump dogs and cats for easy meals is what I am guessing.
I'm sure the iPhone has software to steady the shot. Or it takes a short burst of video and picks one of the images? A programmer would probably know.
ReplyDeleteThat's the thing about this time of year, as it gets dark so much earlier. The last week or so I keep getting surprised at the time. I think it's later, but no. It's just dark earlier.
...gorgeous images! I find that I can take good sunset pictures with my iPhone.
ReplyDeleteI like all the dark photos with rays of setting sun. It's so real I feel I'm there.
ReplyDeleteI took the cat to the clinic yesterday morning about 8:00 a.m. The clinic is out north of Corvallis a bit, but the area is heavily populated. Got out of my car, there, just across the road, was a lone coyote, who looked back at me, disinterested but unafraid. He wandered further out into the mown field, likely in search of mice or rabbits. I don't like to encounter them after dark or in tight places. I once had to use pepper spray on a coyote outside a homeless camp in an urban location. The campers had told me their camp was routinely raided by something. But to encounter the coyote trotting into the camp along a public sidewalk spooked me so fast I used my pepper spray, although he was also startled by running into me head on and was long gone before the spray was out.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful captures and a scary meet up with a coyote!
ReplyDeleteI love the first image. I have stopped using my DSLR since I got my Pixel phone. It captures good photos.
ReplyDeleteWorth a Thousand Words
Gorgeous pictures.
ReplyDeleteWhen I started reading the post I had a feeling you would encounter such a creature. Geez! That was a scary moment... or lots of scary moments. : )
Beautiful images! Coyotes should make you nervous as they're unpredictable. My dog was bitten by one last month, in broad daylight, in a public park. She's healing well, thank goodness.
ReplyDeleteCoyotes are a good reason to carry spray with you when hiking. More great photos.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful shots. I love fall scenes but it does get dark so early. I once saw a city coyote in the back alley on my way home late from work. I had heels on so couldn't run fast. Fortunately, the coyote was at the end of the alley and I managed to turn in to home before he decided what to do with me. If it's legal, I'd carry some spray for those night forays.
ReplyDeleteThey are amazing. The videos aren't bad either. These are great pictures! As for the Coyote from Hell--- We have lots of them. Sometimes at night, you can hear them yipping and yapping. I've only seen one once in the decades we've lived here.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful light in those skies.
ReplyDeleteThese are wonderful photos. :-D
ReplyDeleteThose sunsets are gorgeous again end your header is fantastic.
ReplyDeleteSuch inviting PoV's along these trails with beautiful golden skies! And the moon is framed nicely in the second photo by the trees. I agree that the phones these days are more advanced. There are times that I wonder if I need my "real" camera anymore. :-)
ReplyDeleteExcellent idyllic photos ~ until the coyote appeared ~ lol ~ scary ~ but you are a brave man ~
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days,
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
Incredible light in your photos. Phones have come a long way in a short period. Scary that you saw a coyete but I bet he was just curious about you.
ReplyDeleteI would have been terrified to see the coyote. I wish I knew more about night mode with my iPhone and how to manipulate it. It did such a good job with my aurora photos once I figured out how to turn off the flash but I didn't know how to turn off the 3 second delay (fortunately I wasn't photographing something that could blur). I really liked your first picture, too.
ReplyDeleteCoincide con la puesta de sol y sus buenos colores.
ReplyDeleteFeliz fin de semana.
That first photo is gorgeous and in fact all of these are great. I'll let you in on a little secret I haven't mentioned on my blog yet. When I went to Chicago, I didn't take my camera with me. Every photo I took was with my iPhone. I'm finding more and more that if I take a shot with the camera and then with the iPhone, I always like the iPhone better. I don't know how they do it either. I sometimes wonder if the mirrorless cameras work this way.
ReplyDeleteAmazing photos
ReplyDeleteThe cameras and software in cellphones rae getting better and better. These are indeed great results.
ReplyDeleteI can imagine you felt a little uneasy after your encounter with that coyote.
Phones can be remarkable. I have just been thinking that our cameras should have the processing capability of phones if we're shooting jpeg. Maybe the new ones do?
ReplyDeletegee, you keep pushing your luck all the time ;-). impressive photos indeed for these conditions.
ReplyDeleteThat would be scary meeting a coyote like that, in the dark all alone.
ReplyDeleteI only take photos on my phone now. It is surprising how good some of them can be :)
It looks like a nice place for a dusk-time walk. I wonder if it was a coyote cross? Any I've seen have been pretty small. I'd worry more over a hybrid. Maybe just a well-fed one, like you read about taking small dogs.
ReplyDeleteYou are a great photographer no matter with which tool!
ReplyDeleteI thought about head-lamps too (dog poo on pavements) but then everybody sees me!
Scary with the animal. Your Granddaughter sure is lucky having you!
The trail looks beautiful.
ReplyDeleteHello, Peter. I had definitely commented previously but ot must have gone off to the world of spam. I just love that first sunset image. And what a shame this walk has been compromised by the presence of this coyote.
ReplyDeleteGreat images as usual. Would a lone coyote be lethal? Thankfully have never come across one.
ReplyDeleteThat's one sure way to make watching soccer practice exciting! (This is from a great-grandmother who is never even asked to do anything anymore ';>)!) I suppose city coyotes have to be bigger and scarier in order to survive. Yikes! Your night skies are beautiful, no matter where you photograph them.
ReplyDeleteThese are beautiful! Thank you for sharing them. Just be careful out there. Maybe you should bring a whistle?
ReplyDeleteWas it perhaps a wolf even?! Bear spray?
DeleteNo wolfs in this area. I think I'm safe with a headlamp and hiking stick!
DeletePhone camera technology keeps improving and is really quite amazing. Very nice photographs.
ReplyDeleteMany people would be surprised how many coyotes are actually now "urban dwellers". Easy to not give them a second glance as a lot of folks assume they're dogs. I encounter them often now in a couple of city parks at sunrise.
An iPhone must be a useful thing (haven't any cellphone), that makes such beautiful photos.
ReplyDeleteLuckily we haven't coyotes in Germany, but the wolves are back and they are a lot, coming into the towns, because they haven't enough free natural terrain.
Kinda fun to fool with those phone cameras, huh? Nice to have a flashlight so handy, too. :-)
ReplyDeleteLove that first picture of the sunset. I haven't used a regular camera in at least 5 years. The phone camera does a mighty fine job.
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