Bird Portraits - Part 3

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The photos shown below are part of an intermittent effort to convert favorite captures into the 1920 x 1080 aspect ratio required by the Meural Leonora Black Canvas which I use to display selected images.

Red-faced Cormorant, St. Paul Island (AK) - 2014

Red-faced Cormorant, St. Paul Island (AK) - 2014

Great Blue Heron, Ft. Pickens (FL) - 2016

Snowy Egret, Sterne Park (CO) - 2019

Hooded Merganser, Merritt Island NWR (FL) -2016

Wood Duck, Sterne Park (CO) - 2018

Limpkin, Viera Wetlands (FL) - 2010

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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.