Tim Laman

| Wildlife Photojournalist

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California

August Winner and End-of-Summer Sale

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Hope all of you in the Northern hemisphere have been having a good summer.  It’s been a different one for me, without the usual fieldwork in Indonesia, but I’ve been keep busy with more local projects as we all adapt to the times we find ourselves in.  Among other things here in the studio, we have been working to expand our offerings in my fine art print collection, so whether you might be interested in purchasing a print or not, I hope you will enjoy browsing the added variety in the galleries of some of my favorite images.  

Congratulations to Valarie S. for winning the Goldie’s Bird-of-Paradise square print.  For everyone else who was hoping to win the bird-of-paradise print but didn’t, your timing is good!  I am offering all open-edition prints at 25% off through the weekend in my End-of-Summer Sale. 

Verdin Among the Aloe
What makes a photograph rise beyond pure documentation and become something that can be called art, or at least an artistic image?  It can be a variety of things, and the way they combine together, but the quality of light often has a lot to do with it, along with the composition, how the background works to support the main subject, and other less tangible elements.  For me, this image of a Verdin perched among backlit aloe stems definitely achieves this.  More than anything in this image, it is the atmosphere created by the soft out-of-focus highlights on the aloe stems in the background that really give it a unique feel.  It’s one of my favorites from my time shooting at Sunnylands in the Coachella Valley, California.

Verdin Among the Aloe  is now available for purchase in my Fine Art Store.