{"id":1016,"date":"2018-10-05T15:15:18","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T19:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graemesimpsonimages.com\/blog\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2018-11-24T12:54:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T17:54:59","slug":"exhibition-wilderness-of-the-patuxent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graemesimpsonimages.com\/blog\/exhibition-wilderness-of-the-patuxent\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition “Wilderness of the Patuxent”"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Zealand nature and wildlife Photographer Graeme Simpson<\/a> will exhibit his photographs at the Patuxent National Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center<\/a>, the Hollingsworth Art Gallery<\/a>, November 3rd to 30th,<\/sup> 2018.
\nAll framed photos will be donated to the Friends of the Patuxent<\/a>;.<\/p>\n

Patuxent NWR<\/u><\/strong>
\nThe exhibit \u201cWilderness of the Patuxent\u201d portrays Graeme\u2019s perspective of what one may see walking the nature trails in all four seasons, captures views of the wetland, forest, and pond areas of the refuge. Featured images include a wide variety of forest and waterbirds, butterflies,\u00a0 beaver, and White tail deer in their natural habitat.<\/p>\n

Living in the Greenbelt Maryland area, Graeme has observed that\u00a0 individual birds such as the Herons and Egrets\u00a0 also visit other\u00a0 local wetland habitats looking for food.<\/p>\n

Graeme has been amazed to find such abundant wildlife\u00a0 wetland forest habitat so close to the densely populated areas of Maryland and Washington DC. \u00a0The Patuxent Research Refuge is the largest of the US Wildlife Research centers and also hosts a wide variety of recreational activities beside hunting and fishing.<\/p>\n

Conservation and Wildlife Refuges embrace tourism partnerships<\/strong> <\/u>
\nTourism<\/a> partnerships to fund nature research refuges are showing positive results around the world, especially in Australia and New Zealand. These include tourism<\/a> ventures to encourage additional funding into refuges. In these challenging times I hope the\u00a0 Department of Interior develops promising ideas to maintain the fantastic network of\u00a0 wildlife\u00a0 Refuges across the United States.<\/p>\n

Photographer History Profile<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

New Zealander, photographer Graeme Simpson<\/a> came to the United States in 2010 with his American wife, to start an exciting photography adventure visiting National, State, and urban parks.\u00a0 US photographers have shared their favorite locations with him capturing fauna and flora especially birding adventures!<\/p>\n

Graeme<\/a> started his career in the 1970’s at the New Zealand Government\u2019s National Publicity Studios \/ National Film Unit. Created to document and promote the country the department included, artists, exhibition production units, film production units, photographic labs, media units, journalists and photographers supporting all government agencies.He traveled the North and South Islands capturing landscapes, fauna, flora, to promote the country\u2019s tourism; as well as press, science, and publicity assignments. These photo archive collections are in use today at Te Papa National Museum, National Library, and National Archives.\u00a0Graeme still\u00a0 contributes digital images relating to New Zealand connections in the US such as the Brown Kiwi birds at American zoos and documentation of the ANZAC WII memorial dawn services held in Washington DC.<\/p>\n

Article published in\u00a0 the Greenbelt News review<\/a> about Graeme and exhibit awareness; page one and page 16<\/p>\n