Mourning Dove Acrylic Print

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Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) drinking at bird bath in southwestern Indiana.

My love for wildlife started early in life. I was the only child and we lived out in the country where there wasn’t any kids my age so all my time was playing alone out in the fields and woods. There I watched the birds and animals. In the winter when it snowed I would track the animals. Wildlife was my friends and siblings. I didn’t pick up the camera until I was 43 years old in 1983. My wife and I were going to visit a good friend in Alpine, Texas and visit the Big Bend National Park. I didn’t have a camera but a friend let me borrow his 35mm camera with a 50mm lens. I took several 36 exposure rolls of film on the trip. I soon found out I needed a much larger lens to photograph the deer and birds that I had seen. That trip...