Wildlife Photo Competition 3 2012 : Entry Number 191

Beautiful and so peaceful. This is an outstanding capture of a young red fox in the wild. His dreamy and blissful expression makes this a very telling (and so sweet!) portrait. The lush, wild forest and its naturally diffused light give this photograph a dimension of reality and a wonderfully serene atmosphere. I feel as though I am on the ground with mud on my knees in the silence of this photographer’s hide. A rare and worthy winner of this competition. Congratulations!

Wow...thank you so much for choosing my photo. It means a lot to me, because this is one of my favourite photo & it shows a very special moment of my life. My name is Anne Geier & I took the photograph with a Nikon D90 & a 70-300mm lens this summer in a forrest, where I am often walk through with my dog. One day I noticed a fox family. Since this day I often visited this place to meet this really impressing animals again. One of the foxes became a little bit calm and i called him "Stritzi".