Fox mania -- critique requested

[Overread]

I think I have it

Well got another change at the British Wildlife Centre and after a long long walk to the place found it at last! Another bright and sunny day - though at some points I was wishing for a little cloud cover - sunlight is tricky at the higher points of the day. Anyway here is some of the fox shots I managed to get;
all taken with Canon 400D, canon 70-200mm f2.8 IS and 1.4 teleconverter

f8, ISO 100, 1/50sec
link to larger: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3415/3230037064_61915fd837_o.jpg

f4, ISO 100, 1/320sec
link to larger: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3131/3229185223_569f8d29cc_o.jpg

f5.6, ISO 100, 1/200sec
Link to Larger: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3510/3229186265_4b10de4d85_o.jpg

f4, ISo 100, 1/640sec
link to larger: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3510/3264175424_0c03dd4cce_o.jpg

f4, ISo 100, 1/640seclink to larger: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3267/3229184187_d5435f5a54_o.jpg

f4, ISO 100, 1/400sec
link to larger: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3339/3230035112_405f92414a_o.jpg

Any comments/crite welcome - thank you

 

[Bifurcator]

I like the bottom 2 best! :thumbup:

Nice photos. Thanks!

 

[Overread]

Thanks - I agree I was wishing for some cloud cover as it was just so bright - worst part was when I got the best exposures of them - all I got was the backside of one as he was sleeping!

 

[lostprophet]

1 & 2 suffer with the old shadows across the face, the bane of my life!

3 has the other wildlife photographers friend, blades of bloody grass across the face.

4 is spot on

5 is very nice but it would of been better without the twigs in the background on the left but hey what can you do about that? Its not like you can ask the fox to pose somewhere else

6 well Im just not keen on the pose but thats just me

but on the whole very good

 

[Overread]

Thanks LP!
have to say the last I just like as he looks like he is trying to howl like a wolf - yet in reality he was just scratching an ear - I have thought about cropping so that its a more portrate shot than a landscape aspect shot

 

[Markw]

LOVE the nd one. I think the lines work. itd be better if they werent there, but I do like it.

Mark

 

[STICKMAN]

Keep at it..... I think there nice

 

[Overread]

Thanks both
and stickman - I am certainly keeping at it