Goofing Off Acrylic Print

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During the short window the National Zoo in DC was open in 2020, I visited. I took several photos of these Brown Pelicans because of their beautiful poses. I chose to change to black and white because the water already made their wings darker in the sunlight and black and white made their beauty stand out for me. My bird collection has many photos of pelicans, most taken in the wild. I love the silliness of these two.

My focus has always been on the natural world and its beauty whether it be a dragonfly, flower, frog, or tree bark. When viewing our world, I look at how people and architectural structures fit into it now and in the past. Do they coexist with their natural surroundings or look out of place? To that end, what compels me to take photos is, not only our natural world, but the history we created within it, thus combining my two loves of nature and history. It is my intention that my photographs of landscapes and architecture, as well as close ups of nature and historical artifacts, give us a sense of the world around us. As a photographer and naturalist, I continually search for the obscure, as well as the obvious, as I believe without...