Here I am in my garden on May 24, 2008, holding the 15 x 22.5-inch Willow Flycatcher print before I delivered it to the Wildling Art Museum’s ENDANGERED SPECIES exhibition. Note in the lower right, the Anna’s Hummingbird is hovering above the feeder as if nothing is happening. I could hear his wings humming from where I was. I stayed still to allow him to drink and then fly off. Now for the second photo here, taken yesterday, the Willow Flycatcher framed print is still in the package that Penny Knowles, the Executive Director of the Wildling Art Museum, sent back to me. Now it’s off to Mickey Myers and Jim Gallugi at the Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville, Vermont, to be shown in their 2014 Legacy Collection exhibition, running from May 2 until December 28, 2014. Thanks to photographer Thomas Howard for taking the picture of me yesterday.
When you mount an exhibition, you have to test your prints. These small ones are looking good. My printer The Icon does a great job, and my printer Luis Diaz really helps a lot with his advice, and by taking a few photos of me, like this one with a Blue Jay from Vermont. The show will have larger prints than these, 10 x 15-inches in frames of 17 x 22-inches. The exhibit will have 30 photos in it. Should be nice.
View of the Century City towers from the Annenberg Space for Photography. I love the way the figures all line up, as if the image were staged. But it wasn’t. It just happened that way. Sometimes people think I’m compulsive about taking photographs, but then one like this pops out of the archives when I least expect it.
The Willow Flycatcher appeared in the 2004 exhibition ENDANGERED SPECIES: Flora & Fauna in Peril at the Wildling Art Museum and at the U.S. Department of the Interior Museum. It is 15 x 22-inches, number 1 of 5. Now it will be presented at the Bryan Memorial Gallery show in Jeffersonville, Vermont. Come one and all, from May 2-December 28, 2014. The bottom photograph is of me in front of the image at the ENDANGERED SPECIES show at the Wildling Art Museum in 2008. The top picture is of me at the Bryan Gallery 7/14/12, a great place for art.
The Black Phoebe is the black and white object in the center of the top of the tree, and the hummer is just above him to the left, although he looks like a leaf. He flew off right after I took this image, as did the phoebe. The moon is…well, you know. I took this shot on a walk in my neighborhood a few days ago.
