I’ve been doing photography for a long time, drawn to it mostly by the pleasure of the practice itself — learning the technical side, developing an eye, and being out in the world with a camera. At its core, photography is about capturing a moment in time that will never repeat itself exactly.

I discovered this fox family on my own and returned multiple times to get the image I was after. My approach is straightforward — I don’t direct or manipulate a scene. I find something worth looking at, stay patient, and try to capture it honestly. What held my attention here was how naturally the foxes had claimed that space. The culvert is purely functional human infrastructure, and yet there they were, raising a family inside it.

The “Hand of Man” category asks about conflict and conservation, tension and hope. I think this image fits that theme without needing much explanation.

Wildlife adapts and finds room in the margins of what we build. I find that genuinely interesting, and I hope viewers do too.