Pouncing Red Fox

[Krijn Trimbos]

Sorry for not participating here lately. Have been extremely busy. I spend a week in Norway photographing arcitic wildlife with Jasper Doest and Marco de Pauw and right after I got back the fieldseason for my black tailed godwit project started. This is the first chance I have to show you something from norway. We were driving around one day when we say this fox sitting around. It was very concentrated for some reason and after a while we got the answer to why so.....It pounced a couple of times looking for food, leaving us overwhelmed with the experience and extremely cold (-26 oC). Hope you like it.....

Canon EOS 30D 1/320 f9 Manual
ISO 400
Canon 300 f2.8 L USM + 2x Converter
RAW

[Paul Burgess]

AWESOME!! Super action! Love the colours and the BG is great!!

[Rene de Heer]

Very nice but is this taken under controlled conditions?
Rene de Heer

[Bob Ettinger]

Love the low angle and the timing

[Jonathan Michael Ashton]

Absolutely fantastic shot, composition, exposure sharpening etc, all look perfectomondo to me
Jon

[Krijn Trimbos]

Very nice but is this taken under controlled conditions?
Rene de Heer

Thanks everyone for the nice comments. Rene to answer your question.....no this was taken next to the road we were driving on and was anything but controlled...:)

cheers

[Alfred Forns]

Spectacular image !!!!! Must have been a treat Particularly like the soft light Big Congrats !!!!! ...btw did it catch a prey!!!

[Peter Buntman]

Simply OUTSTANDING, wonderful moment so well captured.

[Kaushik Balakumar]

absolute class.
excellent timing. where in norway was this image shot... ?
thanks for sharing.

[Milan V]

Superb image! Congratulation!
Best!

[Paul Pagano]

This is exceptional.

[Arthur Morris]

Fantastic. So sharp, and love the spray of the snow. Perfect exposure and perfect light for this subject. Bad luck to have the reddish vertical patch of BKGR go thru the fox's head... All in all, I love it.

later and love, artie

[Robert O'Toole]

Excellent, great exposure and WB.

I have the same question as Al Forns.....did he catch anything?


Robert

[Steve Mandel]

Superb job on this one as everyone has noted!

Steve

[Krijn Trimbos]

Excellent, great exposure and WB.

I have the same question as Al Forns.....did he catch anything?


Robert

Hi all,
Thanks for the positive comments! To answer Robert's and All's questions...no it didn't catch anything, it just pounced 5 times and left.......

Cheers

Krijn

[Roman Kurywczak]

I'm with Artie on this one,
get rid of the reddish spot over the head to blend in with rest of the BG..........and this one is perfect!
Roman

[Vincent Grafhorst]

Krijn this is fabulous! The low angle, the action, the sharpness, BIG WINNER! I understyand the comment about the red spot, but it does not really bother me, it would be interesting though to see it without.

[DanWalters]

Stunning image! Love the colors and the action.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great action, angle and details. I like it a lot!

[Mike Tracy]

This is a stunning image. Agree about the red spot, otherwise it is perfection.

[Chris van Rooyen]

Just adding my congratulations, I'm amazed!

[Fabs Forns]

Outstanding!

[Dean Ingwersen]

What else is there to say but...:eek:

[Van Hilliard]

Wonderful shot! The photo says everything, leaving me speechless.

[Gus Cobos]

Fantastic capture on this vertical lift, once in a life time...:eek: Conratulations...:D

[Kari Post]

This is great. Perfect timing and all the techs are right on to make this one worth a second look. Congrats on such a fine capture.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Simply outstanding, action, textures, colors... I am overwhelmed just by looking at it, I couldn't imagine being there! Congrats for the superb work!

[Pietro Luraschi]

action, composition, exposure everything about this picture is wonderful