Local resident and photographer John Callaway gives us a glimpse into Portsmouth’s hidden places with his stunning photography. This week, John’s photos come from his own garden, as he turns his lens to the foxes that live there, alongside his chicken house…
Having lived on the chalk slopes to the north of Portsmouth for some 30 years, I can say with a considerable degree of certainty that foxes have become a much more regular sighting in the surrounding streets as dusk approaches. This summer has proved to be no different, although with the added bonus that the back garden has become the home and playground for one mother and her cubs.
And if you’ve got this far, and read the caption on the last photograph, a final thought: Samuel Beckett grew up in Foxrock, a suburb of Dublin. It must mean something…
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