Mine Eyes Have Seen

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In 2015 Betty and I sold our house in Pensacola and rented a condo on Pensacola Beach for six months. The plan was to spend 6+ months in FL and the remainder of each year in the CO condo we purchased in 2014. We followed the plan until 2017 when we became full-time residents of CO. Betty was not handling the back-and-forth very well because of her back problems. The balcony of our Portofino Island Resort condo faced west. Seven of my favorite photos taken from the balcony are shown below.

The photos were taken with a Nikon D610 camera and 24-70mm f/2.8 (middle 5 images), 16-35mm f/4 (first image), or 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6 (last image) lenses.

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David Sparks

I retired in 2005 after 40 years of research and teaching at the University of Alabama in Birmingham (24 years), the University of Pennsylvania (8 years) and the Baylor College of Medicine (8 years). Photography is my retirement hobby.

Nature photography, especially bird photography, combines a number of things that I really enjoy: bird-watching, being outdoors, photography, travel, messing about with computers, and learning new skills and concepts.  I now spend much of my time engaged in these activities.

David Sibley in the preface to The Sibley Guide to Birds wrote "Birds are beautiful, in spectacular as well as subtle ways; their colors, shapes, actions, and sounds are among the most aesthetically pleasing in nature."  My goal is to acquire images that capture the beauty and uniqueness of selected species as well as images that highlight the engaging behaviors the birds exhibit.