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Audubon Birds in Arts & Crafts Frames — A New Collection

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I've started a new series using John James Audubon's original "Birds of America" plates — all long in the public domain — as the foundation for a set of pieces set within ornate, William Morris-inspired Arts & Crafts borders. The bird illustrations themselves are Audubon's own, preserved as he painted them nearly two centuries ago; the decorative framing and background are new. A few of these birds also carry an interesting footnote: Audubon didn't always get his identifications right, and where that's the case, I've noted the modern name alongside his original.

A pair of barn swallows perched on their mud nest, from Audubon's original plate, framed in an ornate Arts and Crafts border of acanthus leaves and coral florals
Barn Swallow — Audubon Arts & Crafts Bird Print
Plate 133, No. 35. Still known today by the same name Audubon gave it, Barn Swallow (Hirundo rustica).
Audubon's Selby's Fly Catcher perched on a flowering pheasant-eye stem, set within a William Morris-inspired Arts and Crafts border
Hooded Warbler (Selby's Fly Catcher) — Audubon Arts & Crafts Bird Print
Plate 9, No. 2. Now identified as a female Hooded Warbler (Setophaga citrina) — Audubon mistook her for a species distinct from the male.
Audubon's Vigors Vireo perched among broad Tradescantia leaves and dark blossoms, framed by an Arts and Crafts border of acanthus scrollwork
Pine Warbler (Vigors Vireo) — Audubon Arts & Crafts Bird Print
Plate 30, No. 6. Now identified as a Pine Warbler (Setophaga pinus), despite the "Vireo" in Audubon's original name.
Audubon's White-headed Eagle grasping a fish on a rocky ledge, in a compact Arts and Crafts frame of gold acanthus leaves and coral florals
Bald Eagle (White-Headed Eagle) — Audubon Arts & Crafts Bird Print
Plate 31, No. 7. Now known as the Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus).
Audubon's iconic Wild Turkey striding through cane and undergrowth, set within an ornate Arts and Crafts border of olive scrollwork and gold floral corners
Wild Turkey — Audubon Arts & Crafts Bird Print
Plate 1, No. 1 — the very first plate Audubon published. Still known today as the Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo).
Two Blue Yellow-back Warblers among iris blossoms and leaves, from Audubon's plate, framed in an Arts and Crafts border of dark green acanthus and coral flowers
Northern Parula (Blue Yellow-Back Warbler) — Audubon Arts & Crafts Bird Print
Plate 15, No. 3. Now known as the Northern Parula (Setophaga americana).

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Samoan Youth

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This young man was preparing with his friends for his moment of fame on the stage at the Samoan Village at the Polynesian dance festival called Pasifika in Auckland in March this year. Samoan Youth Canon EOS 20D 1/30sec at f/20 ISO 200 Canon 70-300mm lens at 300mm More photographs from the same Pasifika Festival day can be found in my new post, Faces of Pasifika 2007 — A Day at Auckland's Pacific Festival .
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Faces of Pasifika 2007 — A Day at Auckland's Pacific Festival

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The 15th anniversary Pasifika Festival poster — a collage of the Pacific cultures the festival celebrates. On Saturday 10 March 2007, I spent the day at the Pasifika Festival at Western Springs Park in Auckland. It was the festival's 15th year — an annual celebration of Pacific Island cultures that has been part of Auckland's calendar since 1993, and which typically draws crowds of well over 100,000 across the day. Nine Pacific villages are traditionally represented — Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Niue, Fiji, Tuvalu, Tokelau, Kiribati and Tahiti — with music, dance, food, arts, and craft from each community sharing the same park for the day. I usually visit New Zealand earlier in February, but in 2007 I was there in March and it was the first — and, to date, only — time I've been able to attend Pasifika. I hope to make it back one of these years. But I came away from that single visit with the str...
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The Watchman and Virgin River — Painterly Winter Landscape

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The Watchman and Virgin River, Zion National Park — Painterly Winter Landscape — © John Corney The Watchman is one of Zion National Park's most recognizable formations — the peak that rises up just past the south entrance, often photographed reflected in or framed by the Virgin River as it winds through the valley floor. I photographed this view on the same January 2006 trip as the other winter Zion piece in this collection, with the river running low and the cottonwoods and willows along the bank stripped bare for the season. I worked this one up with AI assistance into a full painterly interpretation, the same way I've approached the rest of this Zion series — directing the process the way a film director works with a cinematographer, choosing what to carry forward from the original photograph and what to push harder. Here that meant leaning into the warmth of the low winter light against the cool snow on the upper ridgeline, and letting th...
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