Belted Kingfisher ~ "The Best Of Times" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Hummingbirds The great grey owl is

The great grey owl is the collection's most hypnotic subject

collection — a body of work that explores the grand waterbirds whose movement and stillness stop you in your tracks

For weeks I heard them before I ever saw one

unconventional subjects are welcome

Bring the calming spirit of the shoreline home as you immerse yourself in this collection's transcendent beauty

Belted Kingfisher ~ "The Best Of Times" ~ "Songbirds & Friends" ~ Watercolor Hummingbirds The great grey owl isA Belted Kingfisher still at the river's edge is one of my favorite things to come upon that shaggy crest, the heavy bill, the way it sits utterly focused on the water before dropping like a stone after a fish. I have stood and watched one for the better part of a morning, and the time never felt wasted. Those are the best of times. This is a single bird portrait, the kingfisher given the whole stage. I wanted nothing competing with that profile, just