This photo of a pretty healthy looking coyote I took more than 20 years ago during our first visit to Yellowstone National Park. I've written about coyotes several times on my blog - I just love them and what's more it's my spirit animal. I do feel an affinity to his complex character described in many Native American legends. Once in Yosemite, more than ten years ago, I had a short encounter with a coyote in a moon lit night - I wrote a short piece about it for some creative writing practice. Maybe I will post it here sometime.
But today I don't want to tell a story. Since I can only hobble around and not work in the garden - this ITBS is really painful and very limiting - I have played with AI again. I actually blame Nicole for that! Without having seen her AI creations I might not have tried out the AI feature on my photo app. It's always good when you can blame someone else (some people are real masters in that).
The watercolor feature of the AI possibilites is my prefered one. First try - relatively true to the original picture.
I can try out this feature on the same photo more than once - and I did, because I was curious what else was possible.
This one is beautiful, but a little bit too "pastel" for me. So, another try.
A few flowers are introduced and do you notice how the face of the coyote has changed? It has become a little bit softer. I'm sure he likes the flowers, so let's see whether he can get more flowers in his meadow.
Oh yes! The coyote is smiling! Maybe he's dreaming of chasing butterflies. There must be some butterflies, right?
This last one is my favorite, even though it's completely unrealistic. The coyote looks kind of skeptical as well.
I had fun with this! All these sweet faces are, of course, for Nicole's Friday Face Off.
Another sweet coyote face, also in Yellowstone:
