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Wildlife telephoto photograph, 600mm lens, frosty early morning in the Siberian taiga in January, shot at eye level from a low position in the snow. One adult Eurasian lynx lies on a thick fallen spruce trunk covered with snow, in the center of the frame, looking straight into the camera. Behind it, a dense, softly blurred wall of snow-laden spruce and birch trees. The lynx: a large adult with thick winter fur in grey-beige, densely speckled with dark brown spots on its legs and sides. Long black ear tufts about five centimeters tall stand straight up on both ears. A full ruff of pale fur frames its face like side-whiskers, with black stripes. Bright amber-yellow eyes with black vertical pupils, staring directly at the viewer. A pink-brown nose with tiny ice crystals on the whiskers. Its front paws are huge, round and furry, crossed one over the other on the log, the right paw on top. Its short black-tipped tail hangs down over the side of the log. A small cloud of breath vapor is visible in front of its nose. The log: a fallen spruce trunk about 40 cm thick running diagonally from the lower left to the middle right, covered with a 10 cm layer of fresh fluffy snow on top. Patches of dark bark and green moss show on its sides. Three short broken branch stubs stick up out of the snow. The red squirrel: one small red squirrel with tufted ears sits on a thin spruce branch in the upper right corner, holding a spruce cone, looking down nervously at the lynx. The forest: behind the lynx, at a distance of about 20 meters, a soft blurred wall of dark green spruce trees bending under heavy snow and four white birch trunks. Tiny snowflakes fall slowly through the air, a few of them sharp in the foreground, most soft and round in the bokeh. Foreground: a blurred edge of snow-covered grass stems in the lower left, covered in feathery hoarfrost crystals. Lighting: low, soft, cold morning sun from the left, through a thin layer of mist, giving a pale gold rim light to the lynx's ear tufts, whiskers and fur edges, while the shadows in the snow are blue. Focus and texture: razor-sharp focus on the lynx's eyes and whiskers; very shallow depth of field, with a smooth creamy blur in the background. Individual hairs, frost crystals on the whiskers and the texture of the snow surface are clearly visible. Natural cold color palette of blue, white, grey and amber.