Learn Elements 7 finished and Foxes

Hi Everyone
Great news all round....yes I have finished "Learning Elements 7" and I'm now awaiting delivery of them from the manufacturers HOORAY! So all those people who have pre-ordered should have delivery early next week. Use this link to find out all about our new product http://www.tigpud.com/learn-elements-7-c19.html

Now that is all done I have some more exciting news! Last year we had foxes under our shed at the end of the garden. We live just outside the town centre so these are definitely "urban foxes". This year we have a new Vixen, who we believe is from last years cubs. She has four cubs and we get treated to a nightly display of chaos, much better than any wide screen telly can produce. I have taken these images for your enjoyment:

Hope you like them? But to answer a few questions, before I get them.

How did I do it? Well one of the many benefits of my job is I use large flash units for shooting commercial assignments. They do exactly the same as the flash on most cameras, but with way more power. The other advantage is I use long lens and a radio slave unit. This fires the flashes off when I press the shutter release button on the camera, but operates them remotely. So I can sit the the comfort of the house waiting for the foxes, with my G&T, shooting images without disturbing them.

After the first couple of shots, which were just to test the setup, the foxes didn't even care.

Now I have a slight dilemma. We have a small garden and Mary is a keen and brilliant gardener. It always looks stunning all year round. How she manages to do this and join me on my assignments astounds me. Actually it's down to damn hard work, I know as I have to run her bath and cook when she is finished. Not a chore on my part as I love cooking and find the garden not an enjoyable event. That might be why we get on so well, Mary has this as a release from my constant boundless enthusiasm for well.........just about everything...but mostly LIFE!

Back to my dilemma, lovely gardens and fox families don't actually go very well together, big surprise there then! Most low lying shrubs(technical word there, yes, I did have to ask Mary) are laid flat to the ground. Anything slightly taller and it becomes either edible or a damn good chewing toy. Below the ground is not safe either, bulbs get dug up and eaten or redistributed around the garden and holes appear, well just about anywhere!

Mary has been very patient these last two years but the shed they live under is on its last legs. She has asked me to take it down when the family leaves and that would mean no foxes next year!!!

So what do I do? Your comments as always to keith@tigpud.com

Take care and hope to see you soon.

Keith