Bird Portraits - Part 1

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As I mentioned in an earlier post (link), our condo in Colorado has open space and high ceilings, but not many walls for hanging pictures. The photos that were on the walls in our Pensacola house are stacked in piles in my computer area upstairs. In 2018 I bought a Meural Leonora Black Canvas as an alternative way of displaying images. In portrait mode it is 29.5 inches high and 19.2 inches wide. The display is 27" 1080p IPS with anti-glare technology, 1920 x 1080 full HD resolution, 300 cd/m2 brightness. It supports both 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi and has 8 GB of storage.
The photos shown below are part of an intermittent effort to convert favorite captures into the 1920 x 1080 aspect ratio. More 1920 x 1080 Bird Photos soon.

Grey-crowned Crane, Arusha National Park, Tanzania - 2011

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, Bolivar Peninsula (TX) - 2014

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, Anahuac NWR (TX) - 2014

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, Ft. Desolo County State Park (FL) - 2017

American White Pelican, Barr Lake State Park (CO) - 2018

American White Pelican, Lake DeWeese near Westcliffe (CO) - 2017

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David Sparks

I retired in 2005 after 40 years of research and teaching at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (24 years), the University of Pennsylvania (8 years) and the Baylor College of Medicine (8 years). Photography is my retirement hobby.

Nature photography, especially bird photography, combines a number of things that I really enjoy: bird-watching, being outdoors, photography, travel, messing about with computers, and learning new skills and concepts.  I now spend much of my time engaged in these activities.

David Sibley in the preface to The Sibley Guide to Birds wrote "Birds are beautiful, in spectacular as well as subtle ways; their colors, shapes, actions, and sounds are among the most aesthetically pleasing in nature."  My goal is to acquire images that capture the beauty and uniqueness of selected species as well as images that highlight the engaging behaviors the birds exhibit.