Photographer Mary D’Agostino will share images from a trip to Utqiaġvik, Alaska, the most northerly city in North America. See photographs taken on the tundra that capture rare images of breeding plumage and behavior of countless migratory shore birds and snowy owls on their breeding grounds. An incomplete list of species to be included in the show: Owls (Snowy, Short-eared), Sandpipers (Pectoral, Buff-breasted), Dunlin, Little stint, Jaegers (Parasitic, Long-tailed, Pomarine), Eiders (King, Steller’s), Willow Ptarmigan, Snow Bunting, Redpoll, Plover (American Golden, Semipalmated), Red-necked Phalarope, Ruddy Turnstone, White Fronted Goose, Tundra Swans, among others.
About the Photographer:
After many years in corporate life, Mary now actively pursues her passion for photography. She offers her images to the public for conservation projects and corporate and civic collections. Favorite subjects include Sandhill Cranes, birds, and bears, in locations such as Alaska (arctic and sub-arctic), Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, New York , California, and Nebraska. Mary earned degrees from Amherst College and Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is currently a semi-retired independent management consultant who works on business, non-profit, civic, and public art projects.
Mary served as Board Member of WildCare Bay Area, a California wildlife animal hospital and educational center. She received an Audubon top 100 Photography award for her Sandhill Crane image “Stick Toss.” Several images have been published by the National Audubon and in juried shows. Recently she had an image published in the book accompanying Wings Over Water, an IMAX 3D movie. See more of Mary’s work at her website, www.seenature.net.
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