TrailCAM Composites.

I've been AWOL for most of the last two weeks due to a day-long stint in the Paoli Hospital. It was an intense day.
I've been playing with a pair of TrailCams lately without much to show for the number of images they produce. One is near the corner of my yard where wildlife moves through to eat our Arbovitae and the other is back by the pond a hundred yards or so back into the wetlands. Well beyond where Harry is allowed. These are from that one. The intent was to catch the ducks which occasionally show up. That's not what I got, although a few small blurry duck-like items are in a few photographs.
Each image is a composite of as many as 25 photographs taken automatically, triggered by motion detectors. (Did you know they were invented by RCA in Lancaster?)
FWIW, #1 was shot in early February and the others were shot about ten days ago. #2-4 were all shot from exactly the same camera position in a 24-hour period. #1 involves a lot of masking and moving layers around. #2-4 are simply blended exposures. I don't know where the color in #4 came from, as it was shot around midnight far enough from any houses that the only illumination was from moonlight and the camera's infrared flash.
Also FWIW. While these cameras produce plenty of pixels (24-30 megapixels) the image quality is nothing special. I was not expecting much, since I paid $60 for one and $29 for the other. Cropping is ill-advised. The Samsung Galaxy I carried ten years ago took clearer pictures. My current Pixel phone is vastly better and I would be embarrassed by any comparison to anything shot with my various Nikons. Their advantages are they are cheap (if someone steals them I won't care a whole lot,) relatively weatherproof (we'll see what happens the next time the Perkiomen Creek floods!) and operate autonomously (when all reasonable people are snug in their jammies.)