Recently a guerrilla artist put these umbrellas up in the trees. They were taken down by the city. The rain would make the umbrellas pull down the limbs and the coral trees on San Vicente Blvd. (one of the great avenues of the world) would be damaged.
Sophia is the Store & Events Manager, and I like to think she is acting as my curator for the exhibition at the visitor center in July 2016. She is great with suggestions and planning. Thank you, Sophia. We are pictured here holding my book BACKYARD BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY. Thirty photographs from this book will be in the show.
Through a friend, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld graciously signed copies of his books for me. KNOWN AND UNKNOWN is a fascinating recounting of the wars in the Middle East in the aftermath of 9/11, and the book also includes some great sections on Mr. Rumsfeld’s working relationship with President Ford as well. Thank you, Mr. Secretary.
Me and my friend photographer David Kennerly the other day. Dave goes from photographing presidential candidates one day to photographing little old me the next. Weird.
For Immediate Release:
SANTA MONICA MOUNTAINS VISITOR CENTER—Exhibition of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute collection of thirty bird photographs entitled “The Art of Backyard Bird Photography,” from Mr. Tekulsky’s book BACKYARD BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY (July, 2016). The visitor center is administered by the Western National Parks Association, which is a nonprofit education partner of the National Park Service. The exhibit is at 26876 Mulholland Highway, Calabasas, CA 91302.
I was in at the Mart Barber Shop the other day and took a snap of me in the mirror and a couple of my photographs that have been up on the wall there for a number of years. The one at the left is a Yellow Warbler on a giant tortoise in the Galapagos, and the pelican is from Lake Balboa, a park over in the San Fernando Valley. I took some good photographs in the old days after I got my original Canon Digital Rebel camera in 2004. 
