Mike: Great photo, but, I agree with the judges. The chances of that photographer being there at night, just at the instant a "wild" wolf jumped over the gate, breaking his infrared trigger beam, and capturing that perfectly framed and exposed photo at the peak of the jump, approaches astronomical, and causes my cynical mind to holler "Rehearsed!" Not saying it couldn't have been done...if the photog was the luckiest human being in the universe at that moment. The wolf may have been wild, but his senses would tell him the photographer and/or his equipment was there! And, what the photog had for lunch yesterday. It was probably habituated to people, and likely heading for a regular meal. -- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Wells" <mcwellsphoto@xxxxxxxxx> To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 9:33:45 PM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: [ratpack] This is interesting... Check out this photographic competition. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34979410?GT1=43001 -- Michael Wells MCWells Photography mcwellsphoto@xxxxxxxxx 801-850-7279