Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Breakfast visitor

Checking my emails around 8:30 this morning, I glanced out of the window to see this splendid young dog-fox prowling the shed roofs at the bottom of the terraced gardens. He was trying to find a quiet way down without risking the horrors of the Woolwich Road roundabout or the noisy car body repair yard and was having trouble doing it, which gave me time to strap a 100-400mm telephoto lens to the camera and get some shots.


Nice to see a fox in such good condition and unusual to catch one up so late. Most of the foxes we see round here are laid out by the side of the A102 looking distinctly dead. I've seen as many as four corpses on this one road between Greenwich and the M25, ten miles away.






I've put these shots straight up without any Photoshop enhancement as they're pretty good in the raw state but if the post digital darkroom stuff is a big improvement, I'll substitute.






Finally, LWI is now back in business (thanks Dan) after some upload gremlins hijacked the site shortly after our hard drive became terminally ill from a viral attack and had to be wiped and reborn. Must be the time of year!

Best regards to all, Steve.