Aggressive behavior of two male foxes on Kettle River, central Minnesota. Nikon F5 80-200mmf2.8 plus TC14B. Kodak 100VS 1/250 f11.

-- Carlyn Iverson (absolutsci@aol.com), March 22, 2000

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Stunning shot

Thanks for sharing this!

-- Clive Culverwell (culverwellc@aurorabio.com), March 22, 2000.

Glad you figured out the problem. Neat shot!

-- Micheal F. Kelly (radiant@gci.net), March 22, 2000.

This is a really nice shot. The one thing I would do is take the blue out of the shadows. This is very easy in Photoshop by going into Hue and Saturation, select blue, use the eye-dropper to pick the blue in the shadow and then desaturate it until the shadows are neutral. (Usually shadows are Cyan, but these appear to be Blue.)

-- Bruce Rubenstein (brubenstein@lucent.com), March 22, 2000.

Yeah, it's very blue (purple, even!), but a striking, excellent shot nevertheless! What's with all the tracks? Looks like there might be some people-type critter tracks in there. Is this in the outback somewhere, or near so-called civilization? You ever try Kodak E100SW in the snow?

-- John Wall (jwall@earthjustice.org), March 22, 2000.

Great Shot! I like the action. I would not change a thing. Shadows on snow are blue.

-- Ron Niebrugge (ronn@ptialaska.net), March 22, 2000.

Thank you for all the comments. The Kettle River travels through a state park where there is alot of hiking. The animal trails cross over in order to get to water. I have "corrected" the color in my own file with Photoshop. Depending on films and use or non-use of filters, we can really change the presentation. I have a 20x30 print of this which was made directly from the slide, and the blue tint is much less prono

-- Carlyn Iverson (absolutsci@aol.com), March 22, 2000.

Nice photo, but I agree with John. I too see evidence of "the hand of man". (Make that the foot.) This spoils it for me; looks like the photo was taken in someone's suburban back yard.

-- Dan Dalton (DFDalton@msn.com), March 22, 2000.

Carlyn...great shot, how patient you must have been to be in the right spot for this one. I live on a farm and see red foxes all the time, but in 25 years would never have had this photo present itself if I had carried my camera 100% of the time. Great detail and I can even see the raised hair on the backs of their necks! I really like it. (I`m also jealous)

-- Bob Ternes Jr. (bternes@ix.netcom.com), March 23, 2000.

Just great!

-- Mark Castiglia (markus777@earthlink.net), March 23, 2000.

Excellent!

-- Alan Yeo (nature_sg@yahoo.com), March 26, 2000.