A few years ago I was taking a walk along an old abandoned railway track near where I live. Interestingly Queen Elizabeth once spent the night on this part of the railway on the royal train.
It was fairly early one fine spring morning and I was walking my dog. I looked over the hedge that separates the track from the small field beyond and caught sight of a fox lying in a bed of buttercups, presumably enjoying the early morning sunshine.
Praying that the dog stayed quiet I unhooked my camera from its holster and focused in on the animal. I was using a 500mm lens with autofocus and had forgotten, that morning, to turn off the focus achieved beep so, of course, as the fox was pinpointed the beep sounded,
In the quiet of the morning it sounded extremely loud. I don’t think it actually is, although it was clearly loud enough for the fox, at about 10m away, to hear. Just as I was ready it looked up and straight at me so that I could let the camera do its stuff on multiple release as the beautiful animal became fully alert, jumped up and trotted off to a greate distance, from where it looked back at me with utter disdain.
Sometimes luck plays a part in capturing good photographs.
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