watching the sunset

nokk · Feb 26, 2021

yesterday i watched a fox watch the sun set.

Space Face · Feb 27, 2021

Awe, fantastic. The light is great and the background colour is complimentary.

I'd not normally like a shot where the subject is looking away from the camera so much but on this occasion there's just enough of the road showing to imply the fox has spotted something further down there. The composition is spot on too. All in all a brilliant take imo.

Jeff15 · Feb 27, 2021

Very nice shot......

paigew · Feb 27, 2021

Love this. The lighting is amazing! How are you able to get close to all these foxes?! [emoji2956]

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PJM · Feb 27, 2021

Lighting is great, especially that highlighting his fur. Nice image.

nokk · Feb 27, 2021

Space Face said:
Awe, fantastic. The light is great and the background colour is complimentary.

I'd not normally like a shot where the subject is looking away from the camera so much but on this occasion there's just enough of the road showing to imply the fox has spotted something further down there. The composition is spot on too. All in all a brilliant take imo.

thanks space face. i agree about animals looking away, but when i saw this one it worked for me. and with the light and the glint in the eye. he turned and headed towards me right after this, but this was my favorite of those photos.

Jeff15 said:
Very nice shot......

thanks jeff.

paigew said:
Love this. The lighting is amazing! How are you able to get close to all these foxes?! [emoji2956]

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thanks paige. there was just one fox the other day. but i know the land well enough that after it sauntered off i was able to run into it again and again. i'm shooting in a refuge, the foxes are still wary, but more used to seeing humans than ones you see outside of the refuge. and they're lazy, if a fox can walk on the road instead of in the weeds then they'll do it. the section of roadway this was taken on has water on both sides of the road so the fox can't go far without taking a swim.

and i'm shooting at 600mm on a 60 mp camera so lots of zoom and lots of room to crop in. the downside is the noise.

PJM said:
Lighting is great, especially that highlighting his fur. Nice image.

thanks pjm, i stuck around until sunset hoping to get a backlit shot. it was just luck though cause i had to go around the pond a few times, the road is one way and the fox was going the wrong way around.