A well fed coyote! Fascinating. Paul via phone
> On Feb 16, 2015, at 5:10 PM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 16/02/2015 4:03 PM, Knarf wrote: >> I have no idea where the term "Coyote Ugly" came from because these >> are beautiful animals! First time I've ever seen one up close. > > It has nothing to do with how beautiful coyotes are (and they are lovely > indeed). > > The term came from waking up first beside someone so unattractive that you > gnawed your arm off to get away without waking her/him. > >> >> Down by the lake yesterday two of them rounded the corner about 40 >> yards in front of me. I thought they were dogs and was looking for >> their owner. Then they walked into some brush and decided to make a >> run for it, right past me on a path. >> >> I had my M200 f4.0 on the camera and everything on manual so I just >> snapped and hoped for the best. It appears I had pre-set the right >> exposure and out of about 1/2 dozen I was able to shoot, this was the >> most acceptable. Not as sharp as I'd have liked and the framing is >> not the best (it's full-frame other than a bit cropped of the left >> for balance) but I can say unequivocally it's the best wild coyote >> shot I've ever taken: >> >> http://knarfdummyblog.blogspot.ca/2015/02/coyote-beautiful.html?m=1 >> >> Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. >> >> Cheers, >> >> frank > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

