Wildlife Photography with Peter Post |
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For this public Zoom program hosted 11/11/2021 by Saw Mill River Audubon, Peter Post showed a selection of his images of birds, bugs, and other creatures and talked bout his techniques and what he hopes to accomplish with his photography. More about Saw Mill River Audubon and other public programs: https://www.sawmillriveraudubon.org
Peter Post has a PhD degree in anthropology from Columbia University with a specialty in Biological Anthropology. He has published papers on birds in major ornithological journals, taught a Field Ornithological course at Columbia University, and compiled and authored part of the 1971 Wildlife Management Plan for Gateway National Wildlife Refuge. Peter started with a Brownie box camera about over 70 years ago. He specialized in macro photography of butterflies, other insects, amphibians and reptiles, and other wildlife for about 35 years, but shifted primarily to photographing birds when he went digital. His photographs have been published in a number of magazines, including Audubon and Natural History, and books such as Handbook of the Birds of the World and Peterson Field Guide to Moths. |