thephotosocietyのインスタグラム(thephotosociety) - 5月11日 09時49分

Photograph by @andyparkinsonphoto/@thephotosociety
Red fox stalking – In all aspects of photography I believe honesty and transparency are vital, even more so now in this digital age. Take this image as an example. As someone who has never worked professionally with captive animals it would require an extraordinary amount of skill and luck for me to capture an image such as this, of a truly wild adult fox, in what appears to be full stalk mode. Whilst this is undoubtedly still a wild fox it was actually taken many years ago at Formby Point in Liverpool where, profiting from the regular visitors who came to see and feed the squirrels, a local fox had become accustomed to, and familiar with the presence of people. Losing their innate fear of humans is usually deadly for a fox but in this affluent suburban area this fox was resident for many years and in his own way became a bit of an attraction himself. As well as capturing some images of the fox amongst the people it was also a useful opportunity for me to capture the sort of image that, at least near my home in Derbyshire, would be close to impossible. It was one of my favourite images in the very early days of digital photography, an image that typified the luck that I so frequently talk about and that is so important in all aspects of my photography. As photographers we can possess all of the technical know-how of how to capture an image, we can have invested in all of the very best equipment and built up an encyclopaedic knowledge of our subject but if the animal/bird doesn’t turn up, or doesn’t play ball then it will count for nothing. That this fox suddenly fixed his predatory gaze (probably a discarded sandwich or other tasty morsel!) and then moved through a pool of sunlight in a forest clearing is down entirely to luck, as is my clumsy composition, my large telephoto unable to include both paw and ear I opted by chance for the right choice. And so here is this image with full transparency, a habituated urban fox stalking a sandwich photographed whilst lying in a car park somewhere in suburban Liverpool! Please #followme at @andyparkinsonphoto

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