While we were walking back down the small road to the carpark Cindy noticed a dog wandering around loose. She didn't think people were allowed to have dogs off the leash in Yosemite, and this dog didn't even have a collar. Other visitors walking up to the base of Bridalveil Falls were stopping to take photos of this dog. Eventually I came out of the trance into which I'd fallen and noticed that a coyote was trotting up the road towards us. The coyote stopped briefly to cock its leg against a bush about 10 feet away, then continued along the road.

As the coyote passed I reached for my camera, focused on the coyote and pressed the shutter. I forgot that my camera was set to take a one second exposure of Bridalveil Creek. I immediately realized what I had done and furiously adjusted my camera to get a fast exposure, but alas, by the time I was ready all I would have got was blurry underexposed picture of a coyote bum heading up the road. I decided that the negative I did expose would likely be confused for `art' so I wasn't too disappointed.