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Brotherhood of the Wolf


Brotherhood of the Wolf
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Copyright: Radu Xplorator (Xplorator) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 657 W: 57 N: 1500] (7671)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2004-12-01
Categories: Mammals
Camera: Nikon CP 8800
Details: Tripod: Yes
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2004-12-02 3:49
Viewed: 1264
Points: 18
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
A lonesome coyote (Canis latrans) roaming free in the desolated wilderness of the Joshua Tree National Park in the Sonora Desert.
It is almost certain you will see one everytime you venture off the main roads and you can even hear them howling at times.
El Coyote is the quintessential animal of the
American West and the Mexican folktales, as well as a spiritual brother to the native American Indians, from where he even got his name, in Aztec language "coyotl" meaning "little wolf".
I was always fascinated by the spirituality of the Native Americans, who saw in him like in many other animals more than a resource or simply an animal. Coincidentally or not, eighteen miles south of where this picture was taken, here in southern Californian desert country, is the Los Coyotes Indian Resevation, this Apache nation having as you can see from their name, an ancestral oath with this wild dog in their homes in the mountains nearby San Ysidro and San Ignacio.
To our Western civilization this animal remains a con artist of amazing survival skills; he was for long time shot, poisoned, darted, trapped or alegedly hunted & killed in endless ways for many reasons: because of pest control, sport, fur, meat or simply beacause it was in the sight of a undiscerning gun.
His outstanding power to adapt to any environment
helped him always conserve its large numbers, never much endangered, ranging on a imense teritory from the frozen Alaskan tundra to the scorching hot deserts of Mexico and southwest USA, he would devour anything in his quest for nutrition: from flowers and seeds to animals more than twice its size, very seldom but capable of even canibalism at times.
On a technical note, you gotta love the light input falling on this guy and his wild glance in the eye, I wish I was this "luminosity" lucky on at least once a hundred photos...
THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN TODAY !

Camera body : Nikon CP 8800
Lens: buildt in Nikkor ED 8-89mm & 1.7 TC
Filter : Nikon FC11 ND4 (neutral density)
Tripod : Hakuba carbon fiber with Velbon ball-head
Image specs: aprox 500mm (89+1.7 TC in digital not to
full capacity), ASA 50 , 1/250 , F/5.6, EV -0.3 .
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  • RAP Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2524 W: 345 N: 2373] (7405)
  • [2004-12-02 5:25]

Buena captura Radu... me encantan los colores capturados y sobre todo la nitidez y belleza de su ojo almendrado.
Agradable aprovechamiento de la ilumnación con una bella composicion general.

Good capture Radu... I enchants to me the captured colors mainly and the clearness and beauty of their almond shaped eye.
Pleasant exploitation of the illumination with a beautiful general composition.

Very nice shot, great light.
Well done

Excellent Picture, The lighs are very nice (and more in the eyes), the only less good point in this excellent picture is the background (no vision of landscape)

Regards
Pedro

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  • red45 Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2705 W: 74 N: 8864] (30243)
  • [2004-12-02 7:53]

I like soft light and colours in your pictures, Radu. Good pose and composition. Good to see some sunlight even only on beautiful pictures like that.

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  • japie Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1814 W: 100 N: 1904] (5187)
  • [2004-12-02 11:24]

You have been around a lot - At this rate you are lucky to have found a wife :) This is both a beautiful setting and composition and great mood. Very well done.

Thanks for posting

Oh ! Excellent shot Radur.
The hot light is great!
Very good pose !
Well done.

This wolf look better than the one in the movie, but the one in the movie isn't realy a wolf...
good shot, good colours compo and detail.well done!

It's a lovely animal, Radu. The light does make it special. Living dangerously? Very nice shot.

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  • Luc Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1873 W: 304 N: 4300] (14729)
  • [2004-12-02 16:46]

A great post, Radu.
The light was for the meeting for this one. Good POV and sharpess.
Good work!
Thanx

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