2008: 10 Years and Under - Winner
Alessandro Oggioni (Italy)
Snow pose
'I was skiing in the Gran Paradiso National Park in Italy when I spotted this fox looking at me from a tree. I took off my skis and tried to take a photograph, but it climbed down and wandered off. I took many photos, but I like this one because it has everything - the landscape, the fox, the fox tracks, the shadow of the fox and the tree, all together.' The red fox is the most widespread of all fox species, ranging throughout the whole northern hemisphere. They are sometimes found in even colder places than Arctic foxes, but because they are bigger they need more food, which is why they can't survive in the food sparse Arctic.
Nikon D70 + 18-70mm f3.5-4.5 lens at 70mm; 1/800 sec at f9; ISO 200.
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