While we sleep, they hunt in the night and feed on flesh. They are nocturnal predators rarely seen as more than movement in a shadow. Why are children afraid of the dark? Why are you? Generations of evolution condition us to survive. Shun the unknown or perish. YET for task, I walk alone into the night and make sacrifice. My offering is chicken quarters, tied to a pipe driven in the ground. As I went about setting up the camera and laying out the bait, I could feel the eyes piercing from the deep in the wild where beast is king and man a trespasser...






after...




Well its not so scary. In fact he's a little cute. But who knows what beast of the wild waits patiently until the next time. It is the unknown that scares me and my paranoia that I truly feed.