Arthur Morris Bird Photographer.

Arthur Morris is one of the most respected bird photographers there is.  He is a freelance nature photographer and writer who specializes in birds and bird photography.  He is widely recognized  as one of the worlds best bird photographer and one of the best nature photographers.  He is an active teacher and lecturer.  He taught elementary school in New York City for twenty years.  And for eight years he conducted the shorebird survey at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge for the International Shorebird Surveys, Monument.  Two of his images were awarded prizes in the 1997 BG plc Wildlife Photographer of the year competition.

These are some of the images that Arthur Morris has taken.


Arthur Morris became a Canon contract photographer in 1995 as part of their Explorers of light program.


More than 11,000 of his photographs have been published in American Birds, Audubon, Birding, Birder's World, Bird Watcher's Digest, Florida Wildlife and Nature, Living Bird, National Geographic, Natural History, Nature Photographer, Outdoor Photographer, Photographic, Ranger Rick, Wild bird, and other magazines, as well as in hundreds of books and calendars. More than 100 photo-illustrated feature articles have appeared in a wide variety of publications worldwide.

The picture taken below is taken out of the Art of Bird Photography and his dedicated to is late wife:

"This work is dedicated to the memory of my late wife,

Elaine Belsky Morrris,

who was my love, my best friend, and my biggest supporter."

"Her wonderful smile was lost to the world on November 20, 1994".

Arthur Morris is an American based photographer, he has produced some outstanding images some of which are shown below with the settings that he took when photographing the images:

Arthur Morris (United States of America)

Sandpiper congregation

He was told I'd missed the peak of the migration by a week, in the Alaskan fishing town of Cordova, and that only a few birds were left. With low expectations, He went down to the beach. And there in full view was a snoozing congregation of 6,000 or so western sandpipers snuggled together, their subtle colours enhanced by the flat light of an overcast sky.' Western sandpipers breed on the tundra in Siberia and Alaska, then migrate south to the coasts of North and South America. It's one of the most abundant sea birds in America and during migration tens of thousands of birds will flock together. They keep up their energy on a diet of mainly small crabs, shrimp, marine snails and worms.

Canon EOS-1D Mark II + Canon EF500mm f4 IS USM lens; 1/60 sec at f22 (+1/3 compensation); ISO 400; Gitzo 1325 CF tripod + Wimberley head.

 

Snowy Egret fishing, Ding Darling NWR, Sanibel, Canon 300mm f/2.8L IS Lens with the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 400.  Evaluative metering-1/3 stop: 1/2000 sec.  at f6.3 set manually. 

Roseate Spoonbill, Alafia Banks, Tampa bay, Tripod- mounted Canon 500mm f/4L IS Lens with the EOS-1D-Mark IV.  ISO 400.  Evaluative metering +2/3 stop: 1/2000 sec. at f/8 set manually.

Great Egret, Fort DeSoto Park, south of St. Petersburg, FL. Canon 300mm f/2.8L IS lens handheld with the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 1600. Evaluative metering +2 stops: 1/1600 sec. at f/5.6 set manually. Fill flash at -2 stops with Better Beamer.