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Fox kit and cactus

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Posted by Rod Chandler on May 21, 2010 at 12:39 PM
Fox kit and cactus
I spent yesterday witn fellow NPNers Bob Karcz and Dave Bartlett in Summit County. We saw eagles, egrets, fox and other wildlife. Bob knew about a den with 8-kits. (I swore not to divulge the location.) Momma fox came by but she didn't get the little guys out to play the way our other momma did. This little guy was checking us out from the den hole.
Nikon D2Xs - Tamron 200-500mm lens @ 500mm, ISO 400, f/6.3, 1/500 second.
Posted by Rod Chandler on May 21, 2010 at 12:41 PM
Bob lives on the Blue River north of Silverthorne. There are lots of barrel cactus appearing right there on his property next to the river.
Posted by Erik Stensland on May 21, 2010 at 12:46 PM
Fun shot Rod! I might crop off a little more from the bottom of the first image but I really like it. The second one is terrific. I like the inclusion of the cactus spikes as it helps give it its setting. :toast:
Posted by Rod Chandler on May 21, 2010 at 12:53 PM
Thanks Erik for the kind comments. Please indulge me with a little test here. The images in this posting are ProPhoto Profile. The one with this reply is sRGB. I tested the sRGB profile in an E-mail to myself and the ProPhoto looked better. Yet, when I posted the fox kit and the cactus to the NPN Forum, the colors on both were way off and nowhere near as good as what I saved. Let's see how this looks and thanks for humoring me.
Posted by Erik Stensland on May 21, 2010 at 1:14 PM
They look nearly identical with the first post showing just a tiny bit more saturation, but it may just be my tired eyes.
Posted by Grant Collier on May 21, 2010 at 2:01 PM
These are nice! I really like the first one. I would *always* save photos for the web with sRGB. ProPhoto might look better with some photos on your monitor, but it will look much worse on most monitors, whose color space is much closer to sRGB than ProPhoto (and I'm guessing if you view it in a browser that is not color managed, sRGB will look better on yours as well). It looks like the third image you posted was also in ProPhoto, which is why it looks the same :wink:.
Posted by Todd Caudle on May 21, 2010 at 4:07 PM
You're such a tease! I was expecting a fox kit and cactus in the same shot. Oh well, they're both excellent.
Posted by Brian Jackson on May 21, 2010 at 4:32 PM
Both are really great Ron.
Posted by Soubhik Patranabis on May 21, 2010 at 4:42 PM
Very nice expression on the first one. Liked both the pics.
Posted by bill meikle on May 21, 2010 at 8:42 PM
8 kits, is that some kind of record? Wow.
Posted by Dan Walters on May 22, 2010 at 9:05 PM
Great eye contact on the fox kit. I have not had such luck this spring with the kits.
Posted by Kurt Bowman on May 23, 2010 at 3:01 PM
Love the fox kit shot Rod! I like the look he is giving you over the ridge. Nice capture and good angle :toast: