World-renowned British photographer David Yarrow was lying on his stomach in the snow on a Tuesday in late January, his camera lens pointed at a pair of red foxes padding toward him over a frozen lake at
Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park. His colleague, Tom Rosenthal, stood behind, tempting and drawing the canines closer by waving a piece of cellophane wrapper from a pack of cigarettes that they might take for food.
The goal was to get a supertight shot of wild foxes, and the tactic though ethically dubious worked. After an image of the incident surfaced, however, along with an eyewitness allegation that the crew had illegally fed the animals, the backlash was swift.