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URL:https://www.clevelandphoto.org/events/terry-martin-photographer/
SUMMARY:“Ecuador: Bird Photography Hotspot\,”  - Terry Martin Photograp
 her - This will be an in person presentation - Club will be open
DESCRIPTION:&nbsp\;\n\n\n\nTitle:  “Ecuador: Bird Photography Hotspot”
 \n\nBio:\nI am a Professor of English at Baldwin Wallace University\, curr
 ently in my last semester of teaching. I have been a lifelong trail runner
 \, hiker\, backpacker\, and lover of nature\, sparked in part by many trip
 s to the Adirondacks when I was young. Yet it was only in my early fifties
  that I discovered a previously unsuspected passion for fine art nature ph
 otography. From the moment I took my first Nikon DSLR (a D7000) out of the
  box\, I was hooked. Surprisingly\, birds emerged early on as my favorite 
 photographic subject\, even though I had never paid much attention to them
  before. In the many hundreds of hours I have spent in their company since
  then\, I have come to experience a deep love and reverence for them. More
 over\, the practice of photography has taught me to slow down and to becom
 e more observant and more attuned to the beauty around me in whatever guis
 e it may appear. I believe that the more we appreciate the natural world a
 nd all of its inhabitants\, the more we will seek to preserve it.\n\nI hav
 e been a member of CPS since 2015. In that time\, I have also been privile
 ged to hold four photography exhibitions and have won a number of awards\,
  the most recent being the Grand Prize for the Share the View Internationa
 l Photo Contest. As a professor who is bilingual in Spanish and English\, 
 I used to co-direct a study-abroad program in Ecuador\, where I recently r
 eturned to spend five blissful weeks devoted largely to bird photography.\
 n\nTalk Description:\nEcuador is a bird photographer’s paradise\, boasti
 ng the highest avian biodiversity per hectare on earth. Although neighbori
 ng Colombia has more overall species of birds (1\,910 confirmed)\, Ecuador
 \, at about one fourth the size\, has over 1\,600 species\, including 140 
 species of hummingbirds and 143 species of tanagers\, in addition to many 
 other tropical wonders. In the five weeks I spent there in December and Ja
 nuary\, I was able to visit about twenty world-class nature refuges and bi
 rd observation lodges\, both in the Mindo Cloud Forest (which lies about t
 wo hours southwest of Quito) and in southern Ecuador\, including the Buena
 ventura Nature Reserve\, which the American Bird Conservancy ranks as the 
 second best birding site in the world. I will share the very best of the m
 any thousands of photos I took in Ecuador and offer suggestions on where t
 o go\, what to see\, and how to do it both safely and economically.\n\nWeb
 site: https://terryjmartinphotography.com/
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