{"id":106,"date":"2026-02-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/why-the-fox-photos-took-four-winters\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T10:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:59:34","slug":"why-the-fox-photos-took-four-winters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/why-the-fox-photos-took-four-winters\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the fox photos took four winters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Quiet Animals has nine photographs. It took four winters to make them. People ask why, and the short answer is that the animals decide when the picture happens, not me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The fox in the garden<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In January 2021 a red fox started crossing the bottom of our garden every morning at about half past nine. I set up the camera at the kitchen window and waited. For two weeks she walked past too fast, or in the wrong light, or behind the woodpile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/wildlife-fox-snow-forest-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"A red fox walking through deep snow at the edge of a snowy forest.\" class=\"wp-image-66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/wildlife-fox-snow-forest-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/wildlife-fox-snow-forest-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/wildlife-fox-snow-forest-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/wildlife-fox-snow-forest-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/wildlife-fox-snow-forest-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/10\/wildlife-fox-snow-forest-1280x854.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Quiet Animals, No. 2. The fox on the fourteenth morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the fourteenth morning she stopped, looked at the forest for a few seconds, and walked on. That is the frame. Then she did not come back for a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patience is not waiting. Patience is being ready every day for something that may not come.<\/p>\n<cite>From my notebook, January 2021<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sleeping fox came the winter after, in the same corner of the garden. I like to think it was her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People ask why Quiet Animals took four winters. The short answer: the fox decides, not me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kurato_page_runtime":0,"kurato_hide_header":false,"kurato_hide_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[58,59,60],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-field-notes","tag-quiet-animals","tag-wildlife","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kurato.jawad.work\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}