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Wild Birds of the American Wetlands | 
 enlarge | Creators: Temple Grandin, Terry Tempest Williams, Rosalie Winard
Publisher: Welcome Books
Category: Book
List Price: $39.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 685767
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 13.9 x 9 x 1.2
ISBN: 1599620340
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.328
EAN: 9781599620343
ASIN: 1599620340
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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Product Description
For over a decade, photographer Rosalie Winard has traveled the country by foot, canoe, airboat, and ATV, taking pictures of large birds of the wetlands from Florida to California, Louisiana to North Dakota. Her intimate portraits--tethered to an ethereal palette of white, gray, and black--are alight with Winard's passion for the avian world and its endangered terrain. Alternately meditative and exhilerating, abstract and literal, they capture the birds' remarkable habits and prehistoric forms, as well as their ineffable elegance and humor.
Wild Birds of the American Wetlands is a monumental and breathtaking study of some of the country's most beautiful birds--Great Blue Heron, White Ibis, Snoey Egret, Whooping Crane, Roseate Spoonbill, American White Pelican Wood Stork, and many more--and of their vanishing habitats. From the Ballona Wetlands in California to the prairies of Nebraska, Winard uses her thirty years of experience observing these winged creatures along with her mastery of photography to illuminate the importance of avian and wetland conservation.
Windard's camera lens has replaced her binoculars as she searches for images that depict the birds' elusive aspects and paradoxes: their simultaneous fragility and power, tranquility and action, stillness and momentum. At once a documentary photogrpaher, artist, and student of natural history, Winard, in each of her photographs, slips soundlessly into a vivid and detaled realism.
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 photographic art July 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
after reading the review of this book in 'audubon' magazine and because i'm a fan of black and white photography, i anticipated the arrival of rosalie winard's effort. i wasn't disappointed and sat with the book until the last beautiful image. then i went back to the beginning, realizing that each image is presented like a well composed painting, darks and lights balanced to create a startling intimacy with each subject. the vehicle of infrared film does not distract from detail while actually enhancing the sensation of flight and graceful rest. the minimal text is compelling and heartfelt, representing this artful and lovingly created project. it's not for everyone, but for the reasons stated above, it is deserving of high praise.
june savage
It Soars! July 7, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just got my copy of "Wild Birds of the American Wetlands" by photographer Rosalie Winard. It is not only a beautiful 'concept'--allowing the birds to speak for themselves: soaring, sweeping, standing, in concert and alone against the sky; it is exquisite execution: pages unfold, the infra-red camera takes us to details and a realism unknown to photography. It is far more an art book--like a delicate Impressionist, she allows the birds to truly 'inhabit' their own world; like an Expressionist, her camera jolts us to see the deeper meaning of flight.
Like natural Angels, birds mediate between earth and sky; this book takes me there.
A Unique and Beautiful Book. June 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In her Afterword, Rosalie Winard writes that she hopes the photographs depict how the birds make her feel, and her photos have done just that. Each photo evokes a different mood, a different state of mind. Some of the photos made me laugh like the one of the cranes all coming in for a landing or a two page photo of a busy group of white pelicans. I was struck by a photo of a white egret against a black background which made the bird look taller than life. While looking at the three part photo of an egret dancing, I could not help but think that the bird was enjoying himself. Many photos bring a sense of peace such as the photo of American avocets moving through shallow water. I was impressed with the different effects and the play of light and shadow that Winard produced in these pictures. For example, the photo of little blue herons opposite the title page reminded me of a pointillist painting while a photo of a brown pelican is so sharp that I felt I could see and touch every feather. This is a unique and beautiful book.
 Disappointment about a long-awaited book April 28, 2008
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
As an avid birder, I was really looking forward to the publication of this book. I anticipated beautiful black & white photographs of wild birds& wetlands ==> capturing scenes of birds in special moments that few of us get to actually see during our birding trips. The copy of the book I received, though, had very grainy photos ...a few could be considered "artistic" but most just looked like they had been poorly reproduced. I hope my copy was just a poor reproduction...since the concept of the book is beautiful and the photographer is supposed to be an outstanding nature photographer.
Enhanced with an informed foreword by Temple Grandin and an informative essay by Terry Tempest Williams April 4, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Birds have been a favorite subject for painters and photographers for as long as their have been canvases and cameras. "Wild Birds Of The American Wetlands" is a coffee table photography book published to accompany a planned touring exhibition which is scheduled to debut at the Utah Museum of Natural History (November 1, 2008 - March 2009) and then tour nationally. A visually impressive collection of black-and-white photographs of wetland and marshland birds taken by Rosalie Windard as she traveled the country from Florida, to California, to Louisiana, to North Dakota, by foot, canoe, airboat, and ATV. The individual images run the gamut from meditative and abstract to energetic and literal. Each photograph translates and transforms an avian image into a work of conceptual art. Enhanced with an informed foreword by Temple Grandin and an informative essay by Terry Tempest Williams, "Wild Birds" is a welcome and enthusiastically recommended addition to personal, academic, and community library Photography and Wildlife reference collections.
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