Animals are especially beautiful to photograph in winter because their coats are full and luxurious, and the white environment is beautiful. One of my favorite color combinations in nature photography is white on white as exemplified in this shot of an arctic fox in its den. Dealing with the cold is a challenge on many levels, and it took me a long time to figure out how to keep my fingers warm while I handled a camera. I now put 5 hand warmers in both side pockets of my parka, and that makes the pocket hot, not just warm. I wear only glove liners on my hands, and every minute or two I reach into the pockets to warm my fingers. That allows dexterity so I can work the camera's controls, and at the same time the heat from the combined chemical packets instantly warms up my fingers. I took this picture during a winter wildlife workshop I conducted in Montana a few years ago. The next one I'll be organizing is in late December, 2018. I shot this with a film camera before I went digital, and at the time I took a light reading with a Sekonic L-558 hand-held light meter using the incident mode function. The incident mode allows the meter to read the light falling onto the scene as opposed to reading the light reflecting from it.
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