Songwriter Stephen Kalinich with Backyard Bird Photography
My friend Steve wrote the great song “Little BIrd” for the Beach Boys with Dennis Wilson. “Little bird up in a tree looked down and sang a song to me of how it began.”
A closer view of me with six of the Backyard Bird Photography books
Learning to highlight the subject so the subject doesn’t get lost in the background.
Opening my box of 30 advance copies of Backyard Bird Photography
The book won’t be available to the public until August 5 (although you can pre-order it online discounted from $14.95 to $11 and change) since Sam’s Club bought out our first printing, but I ordered some extra copies from the publisher in advance. Lucky I did, since I can give them away to the nice folks who pose with the book. Opening the box of books right there in the garden where I took the photos was kind of neat. 
In the garden a couple of days ago
The setup with the hummingbird feeder (hidden behind me in the first photo) and the lavender background. Working on the Black-chinned Hummingbird female, who has gotten used to me and doesn’t fly off when I’m standing six feet away. Yesterday, I went toward the feeder to clean it off just as she was arriving, then she flew off to the right, into the orchid tree. I went back to the camera and in a flash, she landed on the feeder. She knows where I’m going. 
Backyard Bird Photography on the patio
Doing the shoot the other day with the Scrub Jays, I popped off a couple of the book on the patio. Glad I did.
David Hume Kennerly with Backyard Bird Photography and me
David has won the Pulitzer Prize and was President Ford’s White House photographer. Recently, he has been branching out into some nice bird photographs himself. He’s a photographer’s photographer. Thanks to Garvin Meehan for taking the photograph of Dave and me. 
