Wood Duck
The Beauty of BIRDS: Photos by Dickson Smith
Hi and welcome to my site.
I have had a deep love and appreciation for nature, and especially birds, for as long as I can remember. As a young boy in Oklahoma, I was either watching them in the yard, from the car window, trying to catch them or running around trying to fly like one. On the family farm in Louisania I would spend hours out in the woods just exploring, sitting, or observing and listing to the birds and animals that called the boyous and woods home.
I started my serious birding in the late 60's and have recently taken up photographing them again. I've had the opportunities to observe and enjoy them from Florida to Alaska and all across this great land including parts of Great Britian. I'm also a Master Falconer, but do not practice the art anymore. I have had the great pleasure of being able to work with many diffrent types of birds of prey over the years and have learned so much about them through falconry. I also love teaching, sharing this passion with birds to others and have guided many into the wonderful and beautiful world of birds and on the road to bird watching. I also enjoy photographing animals, beautiful scenery, sunrises, sunsets and have included some on this site. I try to find beauty in all things and all places I see and go to. All of my images receive only minimal sharpening, lighting, color adjustments and cropping. I have tried to capture with my camera and present to you an image of what I am seeing at that moment.
Please feel free to view my photos and enjoy!
I have had a deep love and appreciation for nature, and especially birds, for as long as I can remember. As a young boy in Oklahoma, I was either watching them in the yard, from the car window, trying to catch them or running around trying to fly like one. On the family farm in Louisania I would spend hours out in the woods just exploring, sitting, or observing and listing to the birds and animals that called the boyous and woods home.
I started my serious birding in the late 60's and have recently taken up photographing them again. I've had the opportunities to observe and enjoy them from Florida to Alaska and all across this great land including parts of Great Britian. I'm also a Master Falconer, but do not practice the art anymore. I have had the great pleasure of being able to work with many diffrent types of birds of prey over the years and have learned so much about them through falconry. I also love teaching, sharing this passion with birds to others and have guided many into the wonderful and beautiful world of birds and on the road to bird watching. I also enjoy photographing animals, beautiful scenery, sunrises, sunsets and have included some on this site. I try to find beauty in all things and all places I see and go to. All of my images receive only minimal sharpening, lighting, color adjustments and cropping. I have tried to capture with my camera and present to you an image of what I am seeing at that moment.
Please feel free to view my photos and enjoy!
All images are the sole property of Dickson Smith and are protected under International copyright laws. Please do not download, print, or reproduce these without my permission.
For further information about my photos please contact me at:
hawkeng25@yahoo.com or wildwingsnaturephotography@yahoo.com
hawkeng25@yahoo.com or wildwingsnaturephotography@yahoo.com
The Beauty of Birds Gallery
Rough-legged Hawk
I am primarily an avian photographer, and the photos shown here are mostly of wild birds. Most of my images are of birds found in the Great Basin area of Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. I consider my back yard and the birds that come into it wild and they come and go as they please. I find great joy and a sense of awe and peace when watching birds, either when I'm sitting in a blind, lieing on my back in the yard watching the sky or trees, tring to put the sneak on a bird to get it's photo or spending hours just observing them. I love watching ducks as they come rushing in rocking back and forth to lose altitude and land on the water. What wonderful and beautiful creatures the Lord has created.
Animals of the West
Wapiti or Elk, Yellowstone Park, Wyoming
It seems like the older I've gotten the more I find pleasure an peace in life while observing and spending time with nature.
Scenry, The beauty in this Land
Tower Creek, Yellowstone, Wy.
As I have traveled around this nation I try to look for the beauty found in all things, be it the rugged rocky grandeur of mountains, as their jagged peaks reach for the sky or when the clouds come rolling in over them looking like a huge white blanket. The rushing flow of a river or a trickle of a stream as they quickly flow over and around the rocks that lie in their bed. Finding beauty wandering the deserts, marshes or mountains of Utah or strolling the beaches or swamps in Florida looking for a new bird for my life list. A calming feeling comes over me as I lie among the pine trees in the mountains and listen to the wind as it races through their branches.
I find beauty in the deserts when the cactus and myriad of wild flowers bloom in the spring after a rain shower or in the hot summer when there is sagebrush and hardly a flower. The sun as it rises to start a new day or desends over a body of water to let the night come to life and makes me thankful that I can be a witness to such a sight. I love the exciment of a dark, towering, heavy rainstorm as they roll in flashing with lighting and rumbling with thunder, then as it hurries away to leave an evening glow on it's clouds as the sun slowly sinks away. I even find the beauty of a dragon fly skimming over the water or a stinkbug hanging out in a Yuka plant flower. The changing of the leaves in the fall on the Aspen and Scrub Oak up Logan Canyon fills me with awe at its beauty. There is beauty to be found in everything if we will just slow down and take the time to look.
I find beauty in the deserts when the cactus and myriad of wild flowers bloom in the spring after a rain shower or in the hot summer when there is sagebrush and hardly a flower. The sun as it rises to start a new day or desends over a body of water to let the night come to life and makes me thankful that I can be a witness to such a sight. I love the exciment of a dark, towering, heavy rainstorm as they roll in flashing with lighting and rumbling with thunder, then as it hurries away to leave an evening glow on it's clouds as the sun slowly sinks away. I even find the beauty of a dragon fly skimming over the water or a stinkbug hanging out in a Yuka plant flower. The changing of the leaves in the fall on the Aspen and Scrub Oak up Logan Canyon fills me with awe at its beauty. There is beauty to be found in everything if we will just slow down and take the time to look.
