{"id":20328,"date":"2024-11-19T06:34:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T11:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=20328"},"modified":"2024-11-19T06:34:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T11:34:39","slug":"yellowstone-big-grey-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=20328","title":{"rendered":"Yellowstone! Big Grey Wolf"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Wolf: Blacktail Plateau, Yellowstone National Park, October 2024 \u2014 I always feel the need to apologize for these photos. Even though it was a once-in-a-lifetime encounter with a wolf, I know I was in the wrong place at the right time. No one with any sense allows a wolf to come this close\u2026about 3 yards\u2026but she snuck up on me, coming up the back side of the ridge while I was sitting just down from the brow. By the time others alerted me to her presence and I stood up, she was right there, cresting the ridge. Too late to run (and that would have been the worst of ideas anyway) I simply tried to keep the camera steady and thought \u201cI\u2019m not in your way, just go around me\u201d. I did not feel threatened in any way\u2026and I would like to think she didn\u2019t either, and she did turn and walk around me, keeping that 3 yard distance. Lots of head-shots\u2026only cropped for composition, so full frame really with the Sony a6700 and the Tamron 50-400 Di iii at 600mm equivalent. Program mode with my bird and wildlife modifications. (And glad for them because I certainly could not have thought about what I was doing at that moment any more than to point and shoot.) Processed in Photomator. <\/p>\n

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