Five Minutes of Fox by Roeselien Raimond

Five Minutes of Fox by Roeselien Raimond

*archive* For the past decade, this time of year was the busiest time of year. I used to spend weeks to find inhabited fox dens, walking all day without any pictures. When I managed to find a good location (many dens are hidden amid impenetrable buck-thorn or behind branches), I used to wait for ours for -maybe- 5 minutes of fox. And then I spend April until September to watch them grew up. Or I noticed they moved, as fox families tend to do and I had to start my fox search all over again. Anyhow: by social life, bye-bye leisure, bye-bye normal life. But no complains here, witnessing these beautiful fox babies was so worth all the effort! Over the years and due to social media, fox kits are being hyped. People share locations through Facebook and Whats App. Where some effort, knowledge and perseverance was required, all you need today is access to the right app group. Needless to say that this has turned fox kit photography into a madhouse. For me, nature photography is the experience as a whole. Calmly witnessing nature, just waiting whatever will present itself. Enjoying the smell of spring, listening to the silence, watching bees digging holes in the sand. Not chatting with a thirty photographers, lying elbow by elbow. I already used to avoid this and this year… I think I might lift the term social distance to an even higher level, for more than one reason.;) Cherishing those beautiful days when photographing fox kits was a nature experience, rather than a circus.

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