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Grey Wolf - Winter


Grey Wolf - Winter
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Copyright: Rene Lortie (rlortie) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 295 W: 59 N: 593] (2058)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2004-12-30
Categories: Mammals
Camera: Canon EOS 1D Mark II, Canon EF100-400 IS L
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/250 seconds
Photo Version: Original Version, Workshop
Theme(s): Mammals of Canada, Canidae [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2004-12-31 12:22
Viewed: 8686
Favorites: 3 [view]
Points: 32
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Grey Wolf
Canis Lupus
Loup Gris

Description
The largest wild canid. Fur is thick and usually grey, but can vary from nearly pure white, red, or brown to black. Head-and-body length: 100- 150 cm. Tail length: 31-51 cm. Shoulder height: 66-81 cm. Weight: 16-60 kg, males heavier than females.

Reproduction
Time of mating: January-April. Gestation: 6 1 63 days. Litter size: 1-1 1, mean 6. Duration of lactation: 8-10 weeks. Age at sexual maturity: 22-46 months (Mech, pers. comm.), occasionally 10 months. Longevity: up to 13 years in the wild (Mech 1988), 16 years in captivity.

Social Behavior
A pack-living animal with a complex social organization. Packs are primarily family groups. The dominant pair breeds, with sub-dominant females under behaviourally induced reproductive suppression (Packard et al. 1985). Packs include up to 30 individuals, but smaller sizes (8-12) are more common. An excellent review of wolf social behaviour and ecology can be found in Mech (1970).

Diet
Extremely variable, but the majority of the diet is large ungulates (moose, caribou, deer). Grey wolves will also eat smaller prey items, livestock, carrion, and garbage.

Distribution
The wolf originally was the world's most widely distributed mammal, living throughout the northern hemisphere north of 15° N latitude. Present distributions are much restricted.

Habitat
Extremely variable, densities being highest where prey biomass is highest.

Notes
Picture taken in Parc Omega where they live in captivity but in large fenced territories. Visitors stay in the car, except for the grey wolf area where we walk on a wooden protected trail. This is the second post of this wolf; First post of grey wolf

Parc Omega web site

Sharpened in PS CS, blur in the background, cropped

Metering mode: Center-weighted average
Drive mode: Continuous (low): frame 1
ISO: 320
Lens: 100 to 400mm
Focal length: 275mm
AF mode: AI Servo AF

Bonne année à tous!
Happy New Year to All of You TN Photogs!
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Anything less then perfect, people are blind. Awesome shot. Your composition is perfect and this is a wall hanger in any room. !!!!!!!!
My only concern is I don't like writing in the image. What a way to go out of 04 and going into 05. Yes!!!!
Well done and keep them coming.

Mike

Great shot Renè
Excellent sharpness, great composition and very good colours.
Great work.

Happy New Year.

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  • Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3277 W: 148 N: 6163] (18832)
  • [2004-12-31 13:47]

Excellent shot. Good composition and detail. He looks a fine specimen of a wolf. They must be well looked after. TFS, Janice

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  • willie Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1023 W: 61 N: 648] (2083)
  • [2004-12-31 14:01]

Very very good Rene. Excellent detail and composition. Good work

Vous terminez l'année en beauté avec cette superbe photo. La prise de vue en contre-plongée donne une présence extraordinaire à ce fascinant animal. Quel regard! Les pattes apparentes sur la neige, la fourrure, et ces couleurs d'hiver canadien. C'est une photo parfaite, René.

Great photo. The background helps the main subject really stand out. The snow on the ground makes you feel cold an adds to the "feel" of the image.

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  • papkin Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 78 W: 0 N: 96] (1580)
  • [2004-12-31 18:22]

Happy New Year.

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  • Lesley Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 297 W: 13 N: 913] (2988)
  • [2004-12-31 19:40]

Gorgeous shot...just as I picture them in my mind's eye. Kudos!!

Composition: ****
Sharpness: ****
Color: ****
DOF: ****
POV: ****

Another great shot, great details.
Well done.
TFS.

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  • Callie Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1101 W: 95 N: 2610] (7555)
  • [2005-01-01 11:53]

Hi René
GREAT shot of this wolf! Exposure on the whites are well handled. Nice diagonal out of the scene too! In a perfect worl, he would look into your eyes!
Nice note too, TFS

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  • japie Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1814 W: 100 N: 1904] (5187)
  • [2005-01-01 14:15]

This is a stunning setting! I love wolves and there pictures always draws my eye. The composition is excellent and the exposure perfest. You also captured very good eye detail.

Very well done and thanks for posting.

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  • Luc Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1835 W: 301 N: 4287] (14767)
  • [2005-01-01 21:58]

Loup Gris, prise Deux!
Formidable! René. La première prise fin mai et celle-ci toute récente.
Je suis passé tout près de ce parc cet été en allant au lac Viceroy avec mon père et mon frère au chalet d'une de mes tantes. Merci pour le lien internet. Faute de pouvoir m'y rendre car je ne possède pas de véhicule, ça informe.
Une excellente présentation: image et note + détails techniques.
Merci

Very nice capture Rene this wolf is very well seen here in this very alert pose, it is a classic view of one against the woodland BG also nicely OOF to allow the wolf to stand out.
i saw the image when you 1st posted it but not had the time to get back to it but it has stuck in my mind so it must be a good image ;0))))#

Perfect classic wolf shot.Great composition stunning. Happy New Year.

Excellent, clear and natural. I feel I am there looking at it. I like everything very much, even the note. Very good quality post. Beautiful stuff.

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  • livios Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 2150 W: 319 N: 4263] (16942)
  • [2005-01-05 20:23]

Rene, your shots are breathtaking. Great pose here, as well as great expression. PP is perfect.

Once more, congratulations.

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