Garden for Wildlife Month
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Art’s Yard – Images by Art Wolfe
May is Garden for Wildlife Month!
Get your yard certified as wildlife habitat through the National Wildlife Federation. Mine is!
UW Timeless Awards
On May 4th, 2012, the University of Washington officially honors a 150 distinguished alumni with their first-ever Timeless Awards and Art Wolfe has been selected. The Timeless Award is given to alumni based on their outstanding service and achievement since graduation.
To see a list of past, present, and future award winners, check out http://www.artsci.washington.edu/150/timeless.asp
On Location: Bowerman Basin Shorebird Migration
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May Tips: Shorebird Migration – Images by Art Wolfe
Early May is a great time to catch the migrating shorebirds as they fly up the coast from California, or the Pacific Flyway as it is called. Sanderlings, dunlins, and other assorted shorebirds pause for a couple of weeks at Bowerman Basin in Grays Harbor on the Olympic Peninsula. Boardwalks provide great access. When the tides are high, and there are no exposed mud flats, all the birds are densely packed together. It is quite the spectacle to see a million birds in a tight area. Also, if there happens to be a bird of prey near, they fly around in tight bundles turning in all directions with great precision. It looks like many bodies, but one brain operating them all. It is definitely worth a trip out to the coast if you are in the Pacific Northwest in those two weeks.
The Grays Harbor Shorebird Festival is May 4-6 this year:
Art of Composition Coming to LA!
Art will be giving his one day seminar, The Art of Composition, in Los Angeles on Saturday, May 5th.
Sign up now using coupon code 050512BL and get a 15% discount!
Sponsored by:
New Roommate!
The other evening I was enjoying my hot tub, and saw I had a new house mate! A screech owl has taken up residence in a bird house I hung in a large tree.
National Park Week
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US National Parks Week – Images by Art Wolfe
Now through April 29, 2012 all 397 US National Parks offer free admission!
Get out there!
Earth Day 2012 Mobilize the Earth!
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BLOG: Earth Day, April 22, 2012 – Images by Art Wolfe
- Plant a garden at home or school
- Eliminate use of pesticides and toxic cleaning products
- Eat more local food
- Pick up trash
- Always use reusable bags when shopping
Pledge your Act of Green at
http://www.earthday.org/2012
And if you like baseball & live in Seattle, Forterra (formerly the Cascade Land Conservancy) and the Mariners are teaming up.
For every ticket purchased through mariners.com/forterra, the Mariners will plant a tree and donate $2 to Forterra!
http://www.forterra.org/get_involved/knock_one_out_of_the_park_for_nature
Youth In Focus Double Exposure 2012
Youth in Focus http://youthinfocus.org/ raised a whopping $107,000 at their Doublexposure 2012 event.
Art Wolfe, Inc. is a supporter of Youth in Focus and donated a print of a leopard, which raised $2200.
On Location: Tulips
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On Location – April Tips – Images by Art Wolfe
For the month of April, you should head back to the Skagit Valley to the tulip and daffodil fields. Many people don’t realize that they grow as many tulips in the Skagit Valley as they do in Holland. The rows and rows of brilliant color is a spectacular sight. Thousands of people from the Seattle area venture north to see this beautiful display of bright colors. One of the best ways to see this fields is from the air; the rows of flowers abstract into bands of color. In Washington, it is how we welcome the spring!
Skagit Valley Tulip Festival through the end of April: http://tulipfestival.org/
Farewell to Arniston, South Africa
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Arniston III – Images by Art Wolfe
Art had a great time with his workshop participants in South Africa. The seaside community of Arniston on the Western Cape was a superb location and now enjoys national monument status.
Also, he was able to get his first shots of the endangered African penguin. These penguins are also called Jackass because of their braying call.
