The Wapiti Lake 7 that brought down the cow captured by Z / Z600f4TC w/Z2x @1200
All the blood you see here is all there ever was. The silence you hear from the photo is all the sound present just seconds before the cow took its last breath. The Gray Wolf is a very efficient ender of life, it was hard to tell if the cow even felt all those jaws barring down on it. I’m not sure what I was expecting to see, or hear in the takedown. Perhaps more like the lions taking down the zebra when we were in Africa perhaps. If you weren’t looking in the right direction, the peace and calm that is Yellowstone in winter are all your senses presented. It has been a few weeks since the takedown and yet I can’t stop examining the photos, thinking through the moment. That one cow fed twenty-four wolves as well as permitted the rest of the Bison herd to move off to safety. It’s a process that’s brutal and beautiful all at the same time. It keeps me rather focused, it’s just seconds now.