Birds

Ice Chicken	Chickens by Sea	Chickens and Swans	Menaced Chicken
Audubon Swans	Rose Swan	Mirrored Swan	Seagulls Fighting for Bread
Secret Friend	Dreaming Duck	After Failure with Bird	Sea Bird

Some images of birds over the years, culled from various projects.

I started out photographing birds because I saw them as an emotional fulcrum of the photograph. I liked how abject or joyful they could be, depending on the circumstances.

I also felt nostalgic about some chickens I'd photographed in 1994, and decided to make cut-outs of those chickens and bring them out to photograph. This way the bird could activate the landscape.

Eventually I ran into some (non-cutout) swans, and so them as a way to continue working. It was amazing that such beautiful (by universal acknowledgment) animals existed and could be met at the average pond with the aid of a bit of stale bread!

When I moved to NY, I would go to a park on the East River and photograph the seagulls, fighting with each other for bread. What a wonderful subject! Birds are everywhere! Soon I met some terribly sad ducks, by a Maine lake, and would visit them at twilight! Much later, a fake crow came to my aid.