Arctic fox portrait

by Murray Rudd

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24.000 x 16.000 inches

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Arctic fox portrait

Artist

Murray Rudd

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Photograph - Fine Art Photographs

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This image is a 'creative' composition of an Arctic fox in a snowy field. I say creative because this is a composite image, created from two photographs and with some blending in Photoshop.

The Arctic fox was shot in mid-February 2021 at the Two Rivers Wildlife Park, a community-run non-profit society, on the Mira River in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. I was using a super shallow depth-of-field there because I was shooting into a fenced enclosure. Shooting this way, while I sprawled out on my stomach in the snow and waited for the fox's curiosity to do it's thing, I was able to shoot right through the enclosure wire fence like it wasn't there, focus on the fox's eyes, and drastically blur the background of the enclosure. The background in the original still looked like an enclosure, even if was a soft and dreamy enclosure, so I instead decided to combine the fox image with an image of the farm field in Sheffield Mills, Nova Scotia, where I usually photograph eagles.

After a little work on the blend and some color matching, this was the result - a gorgeous little fox out in the environment where it was meant to be.

A monochrome version of this image is available only as an NFT at Foundation:
https://foundation.app/@murrayrudd/arctic-fox-winter-portrait-monochrome-76002

Thank you to the Administrators that Featured this photo:
- Fine Art America Professionals (12 February 2021)
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- FAA Portraits (12 February 2021)
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- 10 Plus (13 February 2021)
- Canada (16 February 2021)
- Animal Photographs (16 February 2021)
- Mind-Blowing Photography(16 February 2021)
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- The Top 50 Features (25 February 2021)
- Canon Full Frame Cameras (29 April 2021)
- Black and White Photography (29 April 2021)
- The Outdoor Photographer (29 April 2021)
- Art of Atlantic Canada (30 April 2021)
- Daily Promotion (01 May 2021)
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- 100 Favorites (05 May 2021)
- Camera Art (07 July 2021)

In FAA contests, this image finished in second place in the March 2021 Mind-Blowing Photography group avatar image contest (27 Feb 2021)

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February 11th, 2021

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