Fox on the run

I have recently been trying to take a photograph of an adder, because two friends have had such good results.

One has taken several with a camera phone. Another has taken a striking photo with a proper camera. This morning’s early walk in the woods was another of my adder-hunting escapades. We didn’t see any adders but had a pretty good view (but not such a good photograph) of a Reeves’s Muntjac deer. Muntjacs are lone and very shy creatures but are quite common in the woods and forests of Suffolk.

However, the “safari” was not in vain. After only a couple of minutes walking, I spotted a fox lying in a sunny spot in the undergrowth. My lack of experience with my Nikon had me fumbling with focus, and exposure pre-set type, and taking the lens cap off (again!). He was looking right at us, because we were “in the sun” from his viewpoint, but I just managed to get a reasonable photograph before he stood up and walked away.

The result is not as sharp as it might look in this reduced image - this is a small crop out of a 3872×2092 pixel image - but I was quite pleased with it, as my first ever fox photo.

As green as green can be

My wife and I went for a relatively early walk this morning, to see if the bluebells that were so abundant and richly coloured a couple of weeks ago, were still there.

The bluebells were mostly “going over” but the early sun through the now thickening spring green beech trees bathed everything in a light that was as green as green can be. The photo has had nothing done to it except re-sizing.