We all know that Selby Gardens is world-renowned for its natural beauty, plant collections, research and architecture—but it’s also a great place to bird-watch. Ospreys, egrets, herons and numerous feathered friends all call Sarasota home, and more than 160 bird species have been documented at Selby Gardens’ downtown Sarasota campus.
So it makes sense that the gardens’ summer exhibition is titled The High Life: Contemporary Photography and the Birds. Organized by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography and curated by William Ewing and Danaé Panchaud, the exhibition will feature roughly 70 images by more than 50 photographers from around the world. The pieces will be hung in the galleries of the Richard and Ellen Sandor Museum of Botany & The Arts, and also dotted outside, throughout the gardens.
The images in the exhibit provide a varied perspective on birds and birding from a variety of viewpoints. Some of the contemporary photographers represented in the exhibition specialize in bird photography; others have occasionally captured bird imagery; and a few photographers have snapped an avian image in a moment of pure luck…