Creep

This was my first relatively close winter encounter with a fox, shot in Yellowstone on New Year's Day. Not the most handsome example of a fox sporting a poofy winter coat, but I was simply pleased to get a close-up view. Though the sun eventually came out later in the day, at this point in the morning it was still overcast with low visibility, which led to a bit of blurring in the feet.

I'm normally a "leave room in front of the horizontally-facing subject" type guy, as are others here, but in this case the symmetry of the body, tail and head made me lean toward a slightly tighter crop to emphasize the shape of the subject in profile.

On a side note, immediately after this fellow ran off, my Gitzo tripod leg cracked and popped out. At least it went down in the line of duty...

Canon 7D
Canon 500mm f/4 IS + 1.4x TC
ISO 400
1/1000th
f/5.6

Max