Every day we share a single photo from our Flickr Pool shot by one of our faithful and talented readers (that’s you!).
Sometimes I will measure a photograph by its ability to show me something new about what I would otherwise regard as 'familiar'. To offer me, the viewer, the ability to see something in a new way; a way in which I previously had not considered.
Other times a photograph can grab me by showing me something I have never seen before, and that is precisely what Agnieszka Stryjecka has done with coyote 01.
Nope, never seen that before.
I coexist with coyote. A little over a year ago we moved to an area that is fairly wooded, yet surrounded on all four sides by arterial roads occasionally used by emergency response vehicles. The coyotes here flourish; they love the cemetery that backs onto our backyard, and the greenbelt that both conceals them and allows them to move pretty easily throughout the greater neighbourhood. I have only seen a coyote there a few times and only after dark, and have never been able to capture one on film, but as I lie in bed at night and hear a nearby siren, I hear the call of the coyote (what sounds like dozens of voices, likely more than their true number I'm sure). And I find it absolutely fascinating, if not a little spooky. They seem to be speaking directly to me, saying "open your door, your cats would like to go out."
And the cats on the bed hear the coyotes, too. Loud and clear. And they aren't going anywhere.
