Nature Unknown

This week's assignment was to photograph something unknown in nature. I spent some time walking the edges of a farm field in southern Illinois noticing all sorts of animal tracks. Most of them were deer or coyote but I did see some that I was not familiar with.

Both sets of tracks were in a muddy drainage of a unplanted farm field. The drainage ran parallel to the woods in a transition area between the field and the woodland canopy.




The first set of prints were approximately 2.5 inches in length and in width with five distinct appendages. It was about 9-12 inches between the pairs of prints.

The second set were only about 1 inch in length with a spacing of 4-6 inches between pairs.