Remembering Eric Hosking on his birthday 🎂
📷 David Hosking, 1948
"His action photos are all the more remarkable because, by today’s digital standards, bird photography in the 1930s was staggeringly difficult."
- Bob Montgomerie
📷 David Hosking, 1948
"His action photos are all the more remarkable because, by today’s digital standards, bird photography in the 1930s was staggeringly difficult."
- Bob Montgomerie
Eric Hosking
A Little Owl, Athene noctua, 1949
A Little Owl, Athene noctua, 1949
Eric Hosking
Common Kingfisher, Alcedo atthis, 1951
Common Kingfisher, Alcedo atthis, 1951
Eric Hosking's most famous photograph: the "Heraldic Barn Owl", 1948
Right after I posted my Eric Hosking birthday thread yesterday, I came across this NY Herald Tribune article on his ‘black search-light’ bird photography, tucked into an Everyman Library edition of Thoreau’s Walden in a #LittleFreeLibrary
Late 1940s, I believe.
Late 1940s, I believe.
This is cool:
“Manhattan has its stealthy and impassioned bird watchers who as individuals or in groups, make excursions to Central Park and further afield to observe and listen.”
@CentralParkNYC
“Manhattan has its stealthy and impassioned bird watchers who as individuals or in groups, make excursions to Central Park and further afield to observe and listen.”
@CentralParkNYC
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