Sunday Pic of the Day

This was a cool experience for me. I was set up on a swift fox den with my 500mm, but since I had a second body I thought I would try something different as well. I put a 24-120mm on my Z8 and placed it in some grass near the burrow and set it up in auto capture (very expensive game camera :D). After a couple hours of waiting while be swarmed by mosquitoes, the female made an appearance. She gave just two or three seconds before called the pups up and went to the taller grass for the hand off, but I got a few good shots. I had my fingers crossed that the second camera might have gotten her in frame as well. l was pleasantly surprised with the results. First shot is at 500mm off the tripod and the second was at 31mm. I was lucky enough to capture her with a sweet thunderhead in the background. The original angle was a dull dark sky and I had moved it maybe 15-20 minutes before she arrived as I noticed the cloud irrupting. These two shots were taken at nearly the same moment. Fun afternoon.

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