Neighborhood Beautification
by Gary Holmes
Title
Neighborhood Beautification
Artist
Gary Holmes
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
A male Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris) poses on tree branches draped with the fibrous seeds released by a nearby, and aptly named, eastern cottonwood tree (Populus deltoides) near a local quarry lake. These spectacularly colored birds display all the primary colors of blue, yellow and red, as well as the secondary colors of orange, purple, and green. They make me think of a flying work of art, and their cheery songs match their beautiful and varied coloring. Despite their bold coloration, they are not easily spotted because they are reclusive and tend to hide in underbrush.
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Gary Holmes, photographer: I have always loved to photograph nature, landscapes, abstract, and other found objects of interest. Although I have staged single and group portraits and still life photographs, I prefer the challenge of trying to capture the unpredictable spontaneity of things and events as they are occurring. I started with a Kodak Brownie as a child, but entered the world of real photography with a Canon AE-1 in the late 1970's. I have continued to develop my compositional and post-processing skills and have slowly acquired higher quality equipment that is now capable of putting those skills to their best use. I finally became confident enough to begin posting my work online in September 2012, and have successfully sold a number of my photographs on Fine Art America.
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June 21st, 2014
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