Collared Peccary II

[Michael Lloyd]

Why did the Javelina cross the road?
To get to the other side. :)
Where fresh water from an operating windmill was.

Big Bend National Park
Dugout Wells picnic area

EOS1DsMKIII manual
70-200mm f2.8L IS handheld @200mm

ISO400
1/100s @f8

[Trey Barron]

I like this one better. Might have tried more open or raised the iso to give you more shutter speed. I see some motion blur. Also, would crop a little tighter unless it is already cropped a bunch

[Alfred Forns]

Agree with ISO suggestion, your camera performs very well !!! PS wise might take a little from the bottom for proportion !!! Love seeing them out in the open !!! Excellent !!!

[Harshad Barve]

Excellnet capture here , agreed with Alfred here for taking off some space
TFS

[David Fletcher]

Love the shot and comp, although like Alfred's suggestion for a tad off the bottom.

[Michael Lloyd]

I agree with all points. I think that losing the blurry area (where my sig is actually) would help a lot. I have tons of room to play with the crop. I didn't mind the blur that much as it conveys motion but I realize that isn't everyone's thing. I agree however that had I opened up and increased shutter speed I think the overall image quality would have been better. I wasn't sure where the Javelina was going to come out and there was no way I could have out run it :D so maybe I was a tad distracted by that. Either way... it was a great experience. Typically when I see Javelina they are eating corn and I'm in a wooden box with holes cut in the sides :) Seeing them up close and personal was a blast.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Enjoyed your story. Would love to see an image of you trying to race with them. :D

I agree with the comments regarding the ISO. I agree with you that cropping from the bottom would help. Waiting for a second or so for this fellow to move a bit to the left would have helped in avoiding the green stuff at the right. What is that? Garbage?

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Michael Lloyd]

Oh no... not garbage :D Cactus. If it's cooked right it's pretty tasty stuff.

I would have to go back and look at the other images in the sequence that I shot but I think the next image shows the Javelina quartering away too much otherwise I would have used it. I don't mind including part of the habitat in my wildlife images but in this case, a little bit was too little :)