Opportunity knocks

After yesterday's surprise 'missed opportunity' with a local woodland fox, I decided to head back there this morning. This time I was more cautious in my approach, and ready with the camera. Sure enough the fox was there, sleeping. I kept my distance, zoomed, focused, and managed three rapid (and virtually identical) frames before it noticed my presence and slipped away into the cover of the trees.

Woodland fox

Camera note: taken with the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens.

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  1. SittingFox

    31 Jul 2008

    Well caught! :up:

    It's amazing how they do a good act in looking asleep when they're really focussed on how to avoid photographers 😉

  2. gdare

    31 Jul 2008

    :yes:

  3. Words

    31 Jul 2008

    Darko, :up:

  4. Vulpes vulpes

    31 Jul 2008

    Well done! Perseverance pays off…most times anyway! 😉

  5. Words

    31 Jul 2008

    Adele, well the shrub is still there. That's about the clearest view I could get. If it would just swivel round on the point of its nose with the body at about 1.00 I'd have a clear line of sight!

  6. Words

    31 Jul 2008

    Vulpes, I'm not sure going back once counts as perseverance, but yes I'm stubborn!

  7. Vulpes vulpes

    1 Aug 2008

    Words..ah yes, but there is the mental perseverance over the last 24 hours too!!

  8. Cynthia23

    1 Aug 2008

    The fox sleeping on the moss … WOW! N I C E Words!

  9. cakkleberrylane

    1 Aug 2008

    Very nice shot!

  10. Words

    1 Aug 2008

    Vuilpes, I think that's called 'anxiety' 😆

  11. Words

    1 Aug 2008

    Thanks Cynthia!

  12. Words

    1 Aug 2008

    Thanks Lois!

  13. Vulpes vulpes

    1 Aug 2008

    😆 By the way, have you seen the trailer for "The Fox and The Child"? – film out on the 8th in the UK.

  14. Words

    2 Aug 2008

    Just watched it… and played the games! 😆 Wonderful photography.

  15. Mickeyjoe-Irl

    2 Aug 2008

    Originally posted by Words:

    If it would just swivel round on the point of its nose…

    Now that would be some photograpgh 😀

  16. Words

    2 Aug 2008

    If I could get a shot like that I could probably sell it for a fortune for a beer advertisement! :cheers:

  17. chthoniid

    4 Aug 2008

    Good to see a plan come together. So was this a manual focus or auto-focus shot? [:)].

  18. Words

    4 Aug 2008

    So was this a manual focus or auto-focus shot?

    It was 'one-shot' AF, so at least once I was in focus I wasn't going to lose it with any minor movement. My defauly is what Canon call AI, which is continual AF.

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