A yellowlegs sticking its head into the water in search of food. Honestly, photographs like this are often better luck than management.
Immediately after breaking out above treeline on the Fallingwaters Trail at Little Haystack Mountain, 45,000 acres of undeveloped Pemigewasset wilderness greets your eyes from a vantage point thousands of feet above the trailhead.
I once had an opportunity so unbelievable that I can still hardly believe it. A pair of red fox kits appeared at the local golf course and let me sit a mere dozen feet away while they played in the grass. The following morning I took a photographer friend back to the same place and this young fox reappeared. He was so bothered by us being there that he curled up and took a nap just a few arms lengths away as we fired away with our cameras.
