A female painted bunting on a thin branch with lichens in Texas.

Study in Green

Linn, Texas

When I saw this photograph on my screen for the first time, it immediately reminded me of master painters who could create a stunning work of art with only a few different colors. Bird photographers don't have nearly the same amount of control over the color palette as painters do —we're forced to shoot whatever shows up in the viewfinder, in whatever light conditions we get that day against as pleasing a background as we can manage to create— but as it happened, this female painted bunting gave me an image made almost entirely of green tones, with a bit of orange and gray thrown in. With any harsh light blocked by high overcast clouds, every last detail of the bird's feathers and the lichen clusters along the delicate tree branch come into perfect view.

"Study in Green" is a limited edition of 100 prints up to 20" x 20".

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