{"id":147,"date":"2005-10-06T21:50:09","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T01:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2005-10-18T00:36:19","modified_gmt":"2005-10-18T04:36:19","slug":"be-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"BE READY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.imageevent.com\/jimdoty\/misc\/152F_5256wc3.jpg\" alt=\"Coyote, Rocky Mountain National Park\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Coyote near Bear Lake Road, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.<br \/>\nPhoto copyright (c) Jim Doty, Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Years ago, I read a book by Erwin Bauer that recommended having a camera and long lens ready to go when you are in locations that might provide brief opportunities to photograph wildlife.  Not long after that, I was driving across the Texas panhandle and a coyote stopped right next to the road. I pulled over and looked at it and it stared at me for 10-15 seconds before it took off.  I would have had a nice picture if my camera was ready, but it was zipped up in my camera bag.  Not enough time to get it out before the coyote disappeared.<\/p>\n<p><em>to continue, click the page links at the right<\/em><br \/>\n<!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p>Recently, I was in Rocky Mountain National Park, a prime wildlife location. My camera and long lens were laying on the car seat, ready to go.  I spotted a coyote hunting near the road to Bear Lake. I pulled over, grabbed my camera and lens and took the above photo, one of several before the coyote ran off. I have this photo only because I was ready for such a moment.  As the Boy Scouts say, &#8220;Be Prepared.&#8221; I didn&#8217;t get my coyote photo in Texas years ago, but I did in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>If you like to photograph wildlife, be ready when you are in a potential wildlife location. You might thank me some day.  One more thing, Thank you Erwin Bauer! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coyote near Bear Lake Road, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. Photo copyright (c) Jim Doty, Jr. Years ago, I read a book by Erwin Bauer that recommended having a camera and long lens ready to go when you are in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=147\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}