The visitor - (Published by GETTY IMAGES) & (Published online in HOMES AND GARDENS on December 27th 2024)

            
This photograph was published online in an article in HOMES & GARDENS on 27th December 2024 by Tenielle Jordison entitled:

'' How to stop foxes digging up bulbs – 5 methods to protect your blooms for spring -  Keep your plants safe from the curious creatures that could ruin your display ''.

It had previously also been published in THE GUARDIAN in an online article by Rachel Dixon on June 26th 2024

It was selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on June 20th 2021

CREATIVE RF gty.im/1324337152 MOMENT ROYALTY FREE COLLECTION and became my 5,092nd frame to be represented by Getty, my sole worldwide agents. I now have 7,000+ images represented by them. 

I'm standing in my kitchen on a cold, wet summer afternoon making a Tassimo Costa L'or double shot Latte whilst taking a quick break from watching Sweden versus Slovakia (I've seen more action in a chess match!),  on TV in the Euros football tournament when a rain soaked fox enters my garden!

My camera is upstairs still with the Lee SW150 filter holder and circular polarizer attached, and round here, foxes normally do not surface much in daylight nor spend long before scampering away,  so I rush up and grab it, hastily tampering with the settings, forgetting to set the vibration control to the on position....

I'm skulking in the corner of the kitchen, shooting through closed, rain splattered windows and the fox can sense my presence and every movement. Far from ideal, but such a joy to have a few brief moments in the presence of such a magnificent animal.

And they say any shot is better than NO shot, don't they......

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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty one metres at 15:36pm on a cold morning on Friday 18th June 2021, off Chessington Avenue in Bexleyheath, Kent.

Here we see a young Red fox (Vulpes vulpes), the largest of the true foxes (a genus of the sub-family Caninae which form a proper clade or monophyletic or natural group). Red foxes are the largest of the worldwide foxes, and also the most commonly widespread across the Northern hemisphere, Europe and North Africa.

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Nikon D850  Focal length 420mm    Shutter speed: 1/400s   Aperture f/6.3   iso1000    Hand held with no VC    Image area FX (36 x 24)   NEF RAW L (14 bit uncompressed) Size L (8256 x 5504)   Focus mode: AF-C    AF-Area mode: 3D-tracking Priority Selection: Release. Nikon Back button focusing enabled.   3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points   Exposure mode: Manual mode   Metering mode: Matrix metering    White balance on: Auto1 (5190k)    Colour space: Adobe RGB    Picture control: Neutral (Sharpening  +2)

Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2.  Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Lee SW150 MKII filter holder.  Lee SW150 95mm screw in adapter ring. Lee SW150 circular polariser glass filter.Lee SW150 Filters field pouch. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup.My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag.  

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RAW (TIFF) FILE: 130.00MB        NEF FILE: 90.9MB
PROCESSED (JPeg) FILE: 45.60MB

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PROCESSING POWER:

Nikon D850 Firmware versions C 1.10 (9/05/2019)  LD Distortion Data 2.018 (18/02/20) LF 1.00 

HP 110-352na Desktop PC with AMD Quad-Core A6-5200 APU 64Bit  processor. Radeon HD8400 graphics. 8 GB DDR3 Memory with 1TB Data storage. 64-bit Windows 10. Verbatim USB 2.0 1TB desktop hard drive. WD My Passport Ultra 1tb USB3 Portable hard drive. Nikon ViewNX-1 64bit Version 1.4.1 (18/02/2020). Nikon Capture NX-D 64bit Version 1.6.2 (18/02/2020). Nikon Picture Control Utility 2 (Version 2.4.5 (18/02/2020). Nikon Transfer 2 Version 2.13.5.  Adobe photoshop Elements 8 Version 8.0 64bit.

Taken on: June 18, 2021

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