Sometimes you just fall into a perfect day to try some different ideas with a camera. Since I have not been doing “human” portraits much over the last several months, geez — I wonder why?? Oh yeah, social distancing…. I recently took the opportunity, however, to focus on “bird portraits” at the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, MA.
Interestingly, I’ve always loved the bright colors of Macaws and Flamingoes from my summer days vacationing in Florida and the Stone Zoo turns out to have both. Additionally, it has other birds you might not always see in your backyard, such as Peregrine Falcons. As a result, I spent some time focusing on what kind of portraits I could capture throughout the Zoo. Zoos often act as conservationists for those birds and animals who may be in an environmental risk of permanent species loss due to myriad issues of climate change, destruction of their habitats for over-use and building, and the collapse of migration routes where the birds especially will travel thousands of miles between their home bases and their breeding grounds each year.
A recent surprise was that my Flamingo image from the Zoo visit just recently got chosen to be one of 20 images to be displayed online, and printed and displayed at Hunt’s Photo & Video location in Melrose, MA for their Monthly Gallery for June-July 2021. Check out the entire array of bird images at: https://edu.huntsphoto.com/hunts-photo-education-gallery-june-july-2021-bring-on-the-birds/.
These images are from my eyes to yours and I hope that they encourage you to get out and share places like the Stone Zoo with your family and friends — at any age. It’s certainly worth the trip to visit and to keep sharing your own memories of enjoying what nature brings to you!
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