Visited Järvzoo today. A somewhat windy day with grey overcast skies, absolutely hopeless for landscape photography and I don’t want to do a 2nd straight weekend of nothing but bird photography, so the zoo sounded like a good idea. I didn’t have any expectations though, there wasn’t a lot of light for shooting in the forest so I was fully prepared to be happy if I could get just one nice picture. It turned out that I got more than just one so it was definitely a good visit, and the best part of it is that I finally got a nice picture of an arctic fox! After all these years of visiting Järvzoo, I only had one arctic fox picture and I’ve kept it in my library for comic relief, because it only shows the back of the fox. But now, finally, I got the face as well! Granted, spruce forest is not the natural environment for an arctic fox but I’m not even trying to pass it as an authentic wild animal, so I’ll treat it for what it is – a zoo picture. I liked the way the spruce branches formed a frame around the fox and it seems like I made more use of the OOF foreground on this visit than I normally do… sometimes the bricks just fall that way.
