Ayden's Photography

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What's up, I'm Ayden, I'm an artist and nature aficionado near Boulder, CO and this is my photography blog.

I'm shooting on an OM-1, usually with an Olympus 100-400mm lens. I mostly edit my photos with Snapseed on my phone these days, after finally cutting Adobe out of my life...

My photos do sometimes contain creatures not everybody likes to see (i.e. snakes, spiders), or occasionally dead animals/skulls. These posts will always be CW tagged appropriately — please tag block as needed to curate your experience! Reblogs/comments expressing disgust or violence at the subjects of that type of pictures ("ew, kill it with fire" etc.) will earn you an instant block; please be respectful!

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Boulder County, CO — July 2026

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Saw some very cute road cleanup employees today (they were working on an unfortunate raccoon)

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Recovering mange case. She's lookin pretty good!

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Boulder County, CO — July 2026

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Kalkaska, MI — June 2026

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Kalkaska, MI — June 2026

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Boulder County, CO — May 2026

Big ole' snapping turtle gal, trying to dig a nest in the middle of the gravel bike path

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Boulder County, CO — May 2026

Saw these ADORABLE baby coyotes in a den built RIGHT under the hiking trail??? Kind of baffled by this choice by the parents, I hope people are respectful and leave them alone! 😭

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Saw mom! She was so pretty, I love her notch-ear ❤️ (this one was definitely one of the parents, she was returning to the den).

We weren't lucky enough to see the babies today; we passed by on our way out and back as you normally would when hiking, but we didn't want to spend much longer near the actual den than you naturally would when walking along if you didn't know anything was there.

Also saw another coyote as we were leaving who *could* be dad? Though it could also be an unrelated individual, there are a looot of them in this area and it was far enough away that there's not necessarily a connection.

Good coyote-sighting day, regardless! Lots of cuties.

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Boulder County, CO — May 2026

Saw these ADORABLE baby coyotes in a den built RIGHT under the hiking trail??? Kind of baffled by this choice by the parents, I hope people are respectful and leave them alone! 😭

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Boulder County, CO - May 2026

Incredibly hard to choose 10 photos for this post.

Came across this pair of rabbits attacking this ~3.5' bullsnake on the side of the road (I can only assume they were protecting a nearby den or something, they were very actively choosing to engage with the snake and not running away from it at all)

This did not go well for one of them. After the one was constricted, the second rabbit continued to try and attack the snake for several more minutes, but it did not release. The second rabbit gave up attacking it, but still stood nearby maybe 15' away.

Bullsnake stayed wrapped around the rabbit for quite a while, maybe close to 10 minutes. Eventually it released where it had bitten on and then was in the process of unhinging its jaw, it looked like? Moving it back and forth quite intensely and salivating a bunch, as captured in some of the photos. I could not believe it was gonna try to eat that bunny, it seemed waaay too big even knowing how their mouths can stretch... tbh I was excited to watch how that was possibly gonna work out lol.

I thought the rabbit was definitely dead after being constricted for so long, but when the snake started to unwind off it it BOLTED up and ran off!! I was shocked. Not to anthropomorphisize TOO much, but the bullsnake also potentially seemed shocked.

I wish I had still had my camera poised and ready when it escaped, but I had thought the action was mostly over and had hunkered down to wait until the snake was trying to eat!

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The other kind of vulture culture post lol

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Very fat and happy trash panda in the neighbor's backyard yesterday (mleming on birdseed). Had to go reinforce my chicken enclosure security lol.

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A very bullsnake-heavy day yesterday! Scooped one off the road that was coiled up trying to sun there, and then had a second one spook my horse while riding (we must have passed over it or too close nearby).

I got a good video of that second one doing its hissing threat display.

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Before and after for an elk cow skull I found and cleaned up. I think she was dumped by a hunter after processing, as she was missing her ivories.

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Rocky Mountain National Park, CO — May 2026

Scary moose teeth under the cut 😬:

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Boulder County, CO — May 2026

Lots of spring critters were out and about today after the past couple days' snow!

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My worst nemesis, Foliage 😭😂