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This photo of a mink on campus is one of my favorite images I’ve ever taken. I love it not because of any technical perfection (in fact, it is a very simply composed image), but because of the subject and the experience of the encounter. While mink are not rarities in the area, sightings are uncommon on campus. This mink was curious and kept popping in and out of this hole trying to figure out what was up with me. We observed each other for over five minutes from only 15 feet away. To this day, I feel it was a divine encounter.

I’ve been seriously pursuing photography for a little over eight years now. I love nature photography because of how it preserves a moment. Whether stopping to soak in a sunrise at the Grand Canyon or finally finding a redheaded woodpecker after hours of searching, I can experience a little piece of that moment whenever I look at that image. I also see my photography as an opportunity to point to the Creator and the importance of conservation and protecting these places and species, which were each carefully created by God and called good.