Wildlife IOTW 11/20/2008 Jared Gricoskie

[Alfred Forns]

Congratulations to Jared Gircoskie
Red Fox Sitting

Headed back down to Wheat Ridge,CO on saturday as the radar showed some clouds would roll in. They never did but I got a few nice shoots. Really need a nice cloud cover to get these little guys consistently lit in the varied shadow and light of the cottonwood branches.

This was taken 5 minutes into my morning, it ran right up to me to about 10 feet away, walked back and forth, then for just a few seconds sat down like any good canine. I do not feed or bait them in.

I did some heavy photoshop-ing, like burning and selective curves, and a few masks, to try to keep the highlighted fur on the right under control.

D300, f4 1/320, ISO 400, tripod

[Kaushik Balakumar]

Beautiful. Congratulations Jared !

[Ed Cordes]

Great eyes and I like the way the BG color is so complimentary. Congratulations.

[Geurt Bloem]

Well deserved, excellent image!!

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Jared,
This is an excellent image. Well deserved. Congratulations!
Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Congratulations, Jared!

[Gus Cobos]

Congratulations Jared...:cool:

[chad anderson]

Sweet portrait here, congrats. Postprocessing looks great and DOF is fantastic.

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Nice shot Jared, love the colours in the fox, the pose, and the eyes!

[DanWalters]

Great portrait! Congratulations on the pick.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

Congratulations Jared !

[Julie Kenward]

Jared, I loved this one when I saw it. What a great fox portrait!

[Robert Amoruso]

Exceptional light and pose make this image. Congrats.