Check Out My New Fine Art Bird Photography Prints

Up until now I’ve only had photographic landscape images available for sale as wall art (available framed [black/white/natural oak], and as canvas or rolled prints). As of now, I’ve also added several bird images for sale as wall art.

You can view and purchase these bird pictures here.

You can purchase this print here.

Looking at my PhotoShelter library, I have around 1600 bird images available for download and licensing for commercial use. Selecting a small number of these that are suitable for wall art is extraordinarily difficult – I managed to whittle it down to 40 bird shots (initially, I picked out around 110). The 1600 on PhotoShelter are the very best culled from many hundreds of thousands of frames, so the 40 were very difficult to choose, and indeed, I may feel the need to add to them down the line.

As a keen ornithologist and out and about bird photographer, I’ve really been noticing how many people adore our birds. I became an obsessed twitcher growing up in the UK close to two outstanding bird reserves, Minsmere and North Warren in East Suffolk, but the best place I know for birds is unquestionably Australia. The diversity, colour and intelligence of Australia’s bird fauna is outstanding. I recently wrote an article about the myriad of colours exhibited by our Australian birds, and you can read that here.

I thought that potential wall art buyers and bird photographers might find the backstory and/or photographic details of the images interesting. Consequently, I’ve selected a few of the birds available as wall art and added some words to enliven this article.

The first image shows a side portrait of one of Australia’s most colourful birds. Probably the most colourful of all our species – the rainbow lorikeet. This bird was shot using a Canon EOS 7D with a 300mm f/4 lens at f/5.6 and 1/80sec. ISO was 200 and I used a burst of fill flash to amplify colour. These lorikeets are a delight but can be very noisy and busy when they visit your garden for food, but they can also be quiet and focused. They are monogamous and live for up to 20 years in the wild. If you want to learn more about the biology of parrot colour, read my article about bird colour here, and purchase the image here or here (there are two portrait options).

Another image that I like is this eastern whipbird hiding behind a tree, seemingly playing peek-a-boo with me. I miss the distinctive call of the whipbird in my garden. It is found on the eastern margins of this continent (eastern Victoria to SE Queensland) but is not present where I now live. The males amazing “whip-crack” always seemed most common at breakfast, lunch and in the late evening. It is found in wet sclerophyll forests and rainforests as well as adjacent gardens. There is a northern whipbird that extends up to the wet tropics and Cooktown. Since it requires a fairly specialised habitat, it is considered at risk from the relentless spread of urbanisation. You can purchase the image here. The picture was taken using a Fujifilm XH2s with a Fuji XF500mm f/5.6 lens – taken at f/5.6 and 1/220sec. ISO was 1250 and the image was handheld using ambient light.

The final image I’ll mention here is the cute little golden whistler. It’s one of the most interesting birds in my garden and is a joy to watch and listen to, but it’s also a real challenge to photograph. You’d be forgiven for thinking that the yellow plumage is the important signalling colour, but you’d be wrong – it may be the most important colour from a photographer’s standpoint, but biologically less so. Interesting research on this species (Relative importance of multiple plumage ornaments as status signals in golden whistlers [Pachycephala pectoralis]) suggests that the whistlers striking white throat patch is the most important plumage ornament as a status signal. This means the vivid yellow and other plumage features and song are of lesser significance, but obviously also still play a role beyond attracting keen bird photographers to their vicinity. When it comes to aggression and territory at breeding time, the white throat patch is definitely pivotal. You can read more and chase down follow up reference material here, and you can purchase the image here. The picture was taken using a Fujifilm XH2s with a Fuji XF500mm f/5.6 lens – taken at f/5.6 and 1/105sec. ISO was 1250 and the image was handheld using ambient light.

If you decide to purchase any of my bird pics, you might be interested to know something about the printing process. My prints are available through Riptide, a company that prides itself on quality of craftsmanship using the best, sustainable materials for every stage of the production process.

All Framed Prints are printed on an Epson P20070 with X-Rite i1 Colour Calibration. Key aspects of the framed metallic prints produced include: