This simple head shot of a Vixen has been in several magazines
and won £50 in an environmental photographic competition.

It is a prime example of ASK !!!

Sitting in the car on a late summer evening,  we noticed a 
couple with a strange red dog on a lead. It was a fox.

I had just a Pentax SP1000 with SMC 200 mm f4 fitted and FP4
rated at 200 ISO. I jumped from the car and approached the
people,  asking  if I could take a shot or two.  I promised to
send them  some prints.

The light was low and I had no monopod then,  so they sat the 
fox down,  but would not remove it`s lead - hence careful
composition. I rested the camera on a wall top and required 1/60
th at f5.6  for the shot.

I took about half a dozen.  Never go to all this trouble and 
only take one !