NEW BOOK ON THE WAY!
I'm thrilled to be working on a new book, this time in collaboration with my talented friend Anita Couchman!
Between the Birds will feature Anita's stunning photographs of Monterey Bay area birds. As you can see on this page, she has an intuitive eye for subtle motions and angles of light that hint at untold stories. I see her images as visual poems, and. I "read between the birds" to find and elucidate those stories in lyrical essays.
Here are a few of Anita's images, overlaid with bits of my essays. They won't be presented this way in the book, but serve here as samples of our pairings.
I'm thrilled to be working on a new book, this time in collaboration with my talented friend Anita Couchman!
Between the Birds will feature Anita's stunning photographs of Monterey Bay area birds. As you can see on this page, she has an intuitive eye for subtle motions and angles of light that hint at untold stories. I see her images as visual poems, and. I "read between the birds" to find and elucidate those stories in lyrical essays.
Here are a few of Anita's images, overlaid with bits of my essays. They won't be presented this way in the book, but serve here as samples of our pairings.
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This wonder-full partnership means the world to me, and I hope you'll stay tuned for its outcome.
Meanwhile, check out Anita Couchman's photos on her website, on Instagram, and on Facebook, in the Nor Cal Birding group. She was also featured by International Bird Rescue as their "Photographer in Focus."
About Anita
Anita Couchman grew up on acres of apricots, peaches, and almonds in Escalon, in central California. She first noticed nature's unfolding stories on the family farm, and later while hiking through redwoods, searching for sea glass, and strolling past wetlands. Her lifelong immersion in the natural world brings a nuanced, introspective quality to her wildlife and landscape images. Anita and her photographer husband, Tim, live in the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains near Watsonville, California.
I grew up on an apple farm myself, in Watsonville, where Anita ended up—you can see below that we were always two birds of a feather, can't you! We got a kick out of discovering that many decades before we met, our mothers posed us in geometric jumpers in front of pyracantha bushes, Anita with her camera and I with my . . . well, there must be' a pencil in my hand.
Meanwhile, check out Anita Couchman's photos on her website, on Instagram, and on Facebook, in the Nor Cal Birding group. She was also featured by International Bird Rescue as their "Photographer in Focus."
About Anita
Anita Couchman grew up on acres of apricots, peaches, and almonds in Escalon, in central California. She first noticed nature's unfolding stories on the family farm, and later while hiking through redwoods, searching for sea glass, and strolling past wetlands. Her lifelong immersion in the natural world brings a nuanced, introspective quality to her wildlife and landscape images. Anita and her photographer husband, Tim, live in the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains near Watsonville, California.
I grew up on an apple farm myself, in Watsonville, where Anita ended up—you can see below that we were always two birds of a feather, can't you! We got a kick out of discovering that many decades before we met, our mothers posed us in geometric jumpers in front of pyracantha bushes, Anita with her camera and I with my . . . well, there must be' a pencil in my hand.
