The Bobcat

I'm very honored to have won the "Grand Prize" for National Wildlife Federation's 2018 Photo Contest. I just finished up photographing the snow geese and sandhill cranes in the front ponds of Bosque Del Apache NWR. On a hunch, I changed my camera settings in preparation that something just might happen. We were cruising nice and slow, to my surprise, in a crouched position, a bobcat with a coot in it's mouth. The coot was still alive and it fortuitously (for me) raised its wing blocking the bobcat's vision. With her vision obscured she began to walk slowly towards the road and closer to me. The struggling coot drops it's wing exposing me to the bobcat. Her dinner already captured, she increases her pace to a full sprint. I was able to capture this bobcat as she bounded away from me, the shot of a lifetime.
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National Wildlife Federation Photo Contest Winners.
Nature's Witness
I visited the National Wildlife Federation's Photography Exhibition "Nature's Witness" located in Washington D.C. this past Friday, I was very honored to have two wildlife images on display in the exhibit. Lisa Moore, the editor of the magazine was kind enough to meet up with me and gave me a personal tour of the exhibition.
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The "Bosque Bobcat"
I just finished up photographing the snow geese and sandhill cranes in the front ponds of Bosque Del Apache NWR. On a hunch, I changed my camera settings in preparation that something just might happen. We were cruising nice and slow, to my surprise, in a crouched position, a bobcat with a coot in it's mouth.
https://www.nwf.org/Home/Latest-News/Press-Releases
https://www.nwf.org/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2019/Dec-Jan/PhotoZone/2018-Winners
https://pugetsoundblogs.com/waterways/2018/11/12/amusing-monday-rare-moments-frozen-in-winning-wildlife-photos/
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Bosque Bobcat
The coot was still alive and it fortuitously (for me) raised its wing blocking the bobcat's vision.
https://www.nwf.org/Home/Latest-News/Press-Releases
https://www.nwf.org/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2019/Dec-Jan/PhotoZone/2018-Winners
https://pugetsoundblogs.com/waterways/2018/11/12/amusing-monday-rare-moments-frozen-in-winning-wildlife-photos/
The "Bosque Bobcat"
With her vision obscured she began to walk slowly towards the road and closer to me.
https://www.nwf.org/Home/Latest-News/Press-Releases
https://www.nwf.org/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2019/Dec-Jan/PhotoZone/2018-Winners
https://pugetsoundblogs.com/waterways/2018/11/12/amusing-monday-rare-moments-frozen-in-winning-wildlife-photos/
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The "Bosque Bobcat"
Her dinner already captured!
https://www.nwf.org/Home/Latest-News/Press-Releases
https://www.nwf.org/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2019/Dec-Jan/PhotoZone/2018-Winners
https://pugetsoundblogs.com/waterways/2018/11/12/amusing-monday-rare-moments-frozen-in-winning-wildlife-photos/
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The "Bosque Bobcat"
She increases her pace to a full sprint. I was able to capture this bobcat as she bounded away from me, the shot of a lifetime.
https://www.nwf.org/Home/Latest-News/Press-Releases
https://www.nwf.org/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2019/Dec-Jan/PhotoZone/2018-Winners
https://pugetsoundblogs.com/waterways/2018/11/12/amusing-monday-rare-moments-frozen-in-winning-wildlife-photos/
The "Bosque Bobcat"
The landing at 1/2000 of a second, enough to freeze the action, the bobcat takes her prize back to her resting place to have a nice fowl dinner, until tomorrow, it all starts over again.
https://www.nwf.org/Home/Latest-News/Press-Releases
https://www.nwf.org/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2019/Dec-Jan/PhotoZone/2018-Winners
https://pugetsoundblogs.com/waterways/2018/11/12/amusing-monday-rare-moments-frozen-in-winning-wildlife-photos/
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The "Bosque Bobcat"
The sequence in it's entirety.
https://www.nwf.org/Home/Latest-News/Press-Releases
https://www.nwf.org/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2019/Dec-Jan/PhotoZone/2018-Winners
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The "Bosque Bobcat"
She increases her pace to a full sprint. I was able to capture this bobcat as she bounded away from me, the shot of a lifetime.
https://www.nwf.org/Home/Latest-News/Press-Releases
https://www.nwf.org/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2019/Dec-Jan/PhotoZone/2018-Winners
https://pugetsoundblogs.com/waterways/2018/11/12/amusing-monday-rare-moments-frozen-in-winning-wildlife-photos/
Bobcat National Wildlife Federation Wildlife Nature Cats Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge NWR National Parks Outdoors Photography USA New Mexico