The Massachusetts Audubon Society’s Joppa Flats Education Center announces the opening of an exhibit featuring the bird photography of Bedford resident Michael Milicia. “Avian Photographs by Michael Milicia” will be held in the Center’s Juliet Kellogg French Room from April 13 through May 31, 2010. The artist will introduce his work at an opening reception on Sunday, April 25, at 2:30 p.m. at the Joppa Flats Education Center.
Michael Milicia creates photographs of birds that go beyond natural history documentation and become artistic images in their own right. He is motivated by a love of nature, a fascination with wildlife, and the never-ending challenge of finding that perfect combination of good light, cooperative subject, attractive setting, and beautiful background. His training comes from self-study and from seminars and workshops led by several of the top nature photography professionals working today, most notably Arthur Morris, Charles Glatzer, and Chris Dodds. He chooses birds as his primary subject due to inspiration drawn from the writings and photographs of Arthur Morris.
Mike does much of his local bird photography at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge on Plum Island and at the Concord impoundment of the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. He also travels several times a year to various “hot spot” locations throughout the United States and Canada, where birds and wildlife are more easily found in situations which lend themselves to photography.
The reception on April 25 is open to the public free of charge. A portion of all purchases made during the exhibit helps to support Mass Audubon’s Joppa Flats.
Mass Audubon is the largest conservation organization in New England, caring for 34,000 acres of conservation land and providing education programs for 200,000 children and adults annually. Mass Audubon’s Joppa Flats Education Center, located at One Plum Island Turnpike in Newburyport, is a natural history education center that is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday and Monday holidays, 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Call 978-462-9998 for information about additional programs and events, or visit the website at www.massaudubon.org
