February 16, 2016
Red Fox Pouncing, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA
Red Fox Pouncing
Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA
Canon EOS 1D X, 600 f4 IS II & 1.4x III, 1/1000 sec, f5.6, ISO 400
Image taken on February 12, 2016.
Picasso had a saying — 'good artists copy; great artists steal' — and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
— Steve Jobs
The image in this blog post was inspired by an image by Josh Savage of a fox pounce sequence. I photographed this Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) hunting four days ago and was excited to witness her pounce on some prey hidden beneath the snow. But, I wasn't too excited about the images because she was small in the frame. Fortunately, I saw Josh's image again yesterday and I knew what to do with my images. :)There's no evidence that Picasso said what Steve Jobs said he said. This post on quoteinvestigator.com suggests that the origin of the quote is by T. S. Eliot in his 1920 The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism. (Emphasis by quoteinvestigator.com.)
One of the surest of tests is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
— T. S. Eliot
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