I found this young Red Fox on my last trip to West Virginia. At first, I had spotted him in the middle of a dirt road I was driving down. As I drove closer, I realized that he wasn’t planning on running away. With that, I backed up to a small field out of view of where the fox was standing and began changing my lens to my telephoto to attempt to get some photographs of him. However, before I could even get my lens changed, he came trotting up to within 50 feet of me and began jumping and running through the field trying to catch and eat grasshoppers! The light was pretty harsh, and I never did manage to get any good photographs of him jumping, but I did get a few portraits I’m happy with. He stayed with me for over an hour, and at some points came too close for me to even focus!
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Hi Chris!
Sounds like an awesome experience! As you said, the light is pretty harsh; but you sure got a nice pose!
Happy shooting and God bless,
Paul
This is an excellent portrait Chris! You did a great job handling the light. It must have been fun photographing him.
Great portrait! Very expressive
What a wonderful image. I loved reading your story about this spunky fox. I could imagine being there…