Runner-Up, Animal Portraits: "Trust"
Photograph courtesy Klaus Echle, VEWPOY
To score this winning picture of a female red fox, German photographer Klaus Echle spent months in Germany's Black Forest.
On the day Echle took the photograph, the vixen stayed beside him for more than two hours. "She was so relaxed that she lay down by my side," Echle said in a statement.
By the start of the mating season, the fox had disappeared, Echle said. "I still miss seeing her.
"I will never forget those very special moments. She came to trust me completely, and that's what I wanted to capture in this picture."
Commented judge Sophie Stafford, editor of BBC Wildlife: "Despite having seen thousands of vulpine photos over the years, I could stare at this atmospheric and intimate shot for hours."







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