A Family of Red Foxes

Woke up the same as any other day. I was between photographing architecture for KB Homes and was headed towards Chico to photograph the PODs warehouse. It was between storms that I decided to establish a camp near Lake Oroville. The light was nice and I decided to go explore the area with my camera. Even when I’m not working, I’m photographing! I headed out with a Lensbaby Velvet 56mm lens on my camera. Shortly after starting my stroll I discover a family of red foxes playing. Lensbaby Velvet lenses are great, but the wrong lens for the job. Once out of sight I quickly headed back to the car to change up camera gear. The 200-500mm with a 2x teleconverter would be the weapon of choice. Since the mother and her kits were out and all together, I decided I wanted to be as far away as humanly possible.

Once I found the foxes I didn’t try to hide, but set up an invisible line that I wouldn’t cross. Think mom recognized this and stood guard at the other end of the hiking trail. The fox kits continued to play in the trail in front of me. The first couple of times I tried to leave I discovered a kit checking me out and being WAY to close to me.

My normal day turned into something special.