Opportunity knocks

By Paul Cecil | Published July 31, 2008

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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18 Comments

  1. SittingFox July 31, 2008 at 8:07 pm #

    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 July 31, 2008 at 9:07 pm #

    :yes:

  3. Words July 31, 2008 at 10:07 pm #

    Darko, :up:

  4. Vulpes vulpes July 31, 2008 at 10:07 pm #

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

  5. Words July 31, 2008 at 10:07 pm #

    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 July 31, 2008 at 11:07 pm #

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

  7. Vulpes vulpes August 1, 2008 at 1:08 am #

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

  8. Cynthia23 August 1, 2008 at 2:08 am #

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

  9. cakkleberrylane August 1, 2008 at 8:08 pm #

    Very nice shot!

  10. Words August 1, 2008 at 10:08 pm #

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

  11. Words August 1, 2008 at 10:08 pm #

    Thanks Cynthia!

  12. Words August 1, 2008 at 10:08 pm #

    Thanks Lois!

  13. Vulpes vulpes August 1, 2008 at 11:08 pm #

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

  14. Words August 2, 2008 at 12:08 am #

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

  15. Mickeyjoe-Irl August 2, 2008 at 1:08 pm #

    Originally posted by Words:

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

    Now that would be some photograpgh 😀

  16. Words August 2, 2008 at 3:08 pm #

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

  17. chthoniid August 4, 2008 at 12:08 am #

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

  18. Words August 4, 2008 at 7:08 am #

    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.