Fox Photos Needed!

The usual predictable response from someone who hasn't read the post. I'm surprised that you joined in on this Hubert as that's unworthy of your intellect. Maybe just tongue in cheek?:lol:

I'm glad to see that so many people on here have offered constructive help. As he makes clear, the OP doesn't need images of the slain. He has plenty of his own, but there's always someone who needs an outlet. Is it any wonder the wider world finds picture of blown-up carcasses so disgusting, and the people who pose and post so weird?

I'd like to plead for someone with the skill, and a lower level of testosterone to genuinely help in this task by capturing some usable images of an incredibly elusive animal in the wild. Pulling a trigger is very easy, as is taking an arranged pic. of the corpse. Why some do this at all eludes me, but then so does the way some use the gallery feature on this site to impress or boast of their prowess.

I agree with much of what you say and acknowledge this is a thread inviting pictures of foxes with a pulse so happy to remove my “Vixen In Eternal Repose” image if you wish.
I do however question the assertion that it’s easy to take good pictures of arranged corpses as why then do we see so many that are not and clearly devoid of artistry?? I accept some may find this approach macabre but if you’re going to take a picture for posterity one may as well follow the well defined tenets of composition if only the rule of thirds! Another key and easily deployed approach is to simply role the beast over or arrange the composition as to conceal the exit channel and if you use a .22 Hornet you’ll unlikely to have one anyway!
 
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If I'd had the doors on the car open last night, while waiting for Mike to arrive at the golf course, the one that came trotting across the car park, food item in mouth, would probably have crossed my lap!... phone in deep pocket so no pics!!!:doh:
 
One in the snow
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This is definitely the best so far. It's a startling portrayal of the wariness of this beast skidding to a halt.... and gone within the next heartbeat. Nice one, Stone.

Mankind will never wipe these little chaps out without stooping to biological warfare, and everyone in the hunting fraternity wouldn't stand for this....Thank God.
 
Thank you for the kind comments sinistral
that was a country fox
this next pic is of an urban/city fox
check out the difference...

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Another example of a brazen city Fox
a friend of mine took this one morning a few weeks ago in the shop he works at
yes a real fox that came in off the street and was walking around the shop floor
feck knows why it went into a furniture store thou..!!!

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hi paddy

it would be good to have a section on the reaction to the shot with foxes. i know most are either missed or stone dead with the calibers used in the fields these days. i have been using 53gr vmax lately out of a 223 with 26.5gr of n135. i have seen a few foxes react after being hit at less than 100m where the shot has been center chest or slightly low. they have ran on as though not touched only to drop approx 50m away. i refer to them as streamers, when i catch up to them there is generally a large portion of their intestines streaming up the filed after them.

keith
 
Thanks, Chaps - I have to admit that I've been offered so many different photos that I don't really know which ones I'll be able to use and which ones I won't. I guess I won't be able to answer that until we've gone through the book's design stage.

KSB - while I agree with everything you say about the reaction to shot, I'm not sure that it'd be wise for me to talk about it in that way as I suspect the 'Holier than thou' brigade would be on my back in a flash...
 
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