Wolves!! :)

I finally got through sorting/resizing the 1000 pictures I took (in 2 hours!) on my wolf trip this past Sunday!  It was such an amazing trip...a lot of driving, but so worth it.  It was specifically for photographers so we spent the whole time rotating to different pens.  There were about 10 other photographers besides me and my dad as well as a few staff members...so it was a pretty small group.  The staff members had dog treats they'd throw out to the wolves to get them closer to us, though they tended to hang around pretty close anyways.  They were right up against the fence staring at us!  It was probably one of the most amazing things I have ever experienced...I've always been a wolf lover but never seen them closely in person really until now...and I can tell you that pictures do them no justice.  You can't tell from pictures how they move...constantly weaving back and forth with their piercing eyes trained right on you like they're boring holes right into you.  It's really an experience...  they are so intense!!  We were so close we could have reached down and patted them on the head (though we had been asked not to) and when we looked through the slots in the fence, there was nothing between them and us.  I was often leaning into the pen so I was directly above them...it was so amazing.  But anyway.  On to the pictures   I took 1000, but managed to wittle the batch down to 228 good ones. 
 
Unfortunately it was a very gray day so a lot of my pictures came out blurry cause these animals NEVER stop moving. []

Here are some pics of my that my dad took while I was totally entranced with these critters...





(just so you get the idea of how close we were [])

The first pen we were at was the Arctic wolf pen.  They were POOFY.  Like big marshmallow wolves []  And very wary.

























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