Huntley Meadows, 2021
Series 1

Pigment ink print on Moab Lasal Exhibition Lustre paper
Dimensions variable

There’s a lovely little wetland park near us, teeming with turtles and snakes and birds and things—but with a nature center and benches and a boardwalk, so you can bring the kids. Huntley Meadows, it’s called. It’s also got, usually, about half a dozen photographers with their tripods and giant lenses (and why do they still wear those vests? I thought those vests were for carrying film?), all set up on the same bit of boardwalk for today’s heron or egret or whatever is out there preening on the water.

I like birds as much as the next guy, but I don’t have those lenses unless I’m renting one for a job or something, so I shuffle past, sheepish with a little wide-angle, and try to capture different nature photography clichés.