by Betty Byrd
21.5” x 17.5”
Framed
Artist Biography: Betty Byrd is an American award-winning novelist & wildlife photographer whose
10-year birthday gift of a camera led her into photography. Now her photos hang in several collections
throughout the country. Her work captures what’s singular and soulful about the animals around her.
Distressed by the accelerating pace of extinctions worldwide, Betty is on a mission to honor the delicate
& massive, ferocious or timid, exotic or approachable so that these animals come alive and we remember
that it’s up to us to make sure they stay that way. The tight, intimate portraits of the vulnerable,
threatened and endangered animals are designed to inspire and to give a voice to the voiceless. Betty’s
photos also draw people into the beauty and fragility of the natural world, to be less afraid of the wild
and what it represents. She believes that we cannot take away “WILDNESS.” For in that space we can
sympathize with the animal & it’s requirements, it’s needs. The way she sees a scene, or the way she
chooses to interpret that scene opens up many avenues of creativity so that she can explore them all.
Above all, she has patience to wait for the right subject to come along…
Artist Statement:
My wild legacies represent a long journey of past actions and decisions on my part. I always felt as if there was more out there to be seen and discovered.
After watching a dying polar bear struggle to survive in the Arctic, river rafting through the Tortuguero Jungle in Costa Rica, and experiencing fatalities from the drought in Africa, I was consumed by the fact that these endangered species, living in many tenuous environments, were in desperate need of help.
Their lives represent a parallel life to ours except…
Think of them as:
· Doting parents
· Drs. and nurses for themselves
· Lawyers that don’t have their day in court
· Children that have few adoption agencies
My photography captures wildlife and landscapes that could be lost at anytime and saved at any time as well.
by Betty Byrd
21.5” x 17.5”
Framed
Artist Biography: Betty Byrd is an American award-winning novelist & wildlife photographer whose
10-year birthday gift of a camera led her into photography. Now her photos hang in several collections
throughout the country. Her work captures what’s singular and soulful about the animals around her.
Distressed by the accelerating pace of extinctions worldwide, Betty is on a mission to honor the delicate
& massive, ferocious or timid, exotic or approachable so that these animals come alive and we remember
that it’s up to us to make sure they stay that way. The tight, intimate portraits of the vulnerable,
threatened and endangered animals are designed to inspire and to give a voice to the voiceless. Betty’s
photos also draw people into the beauty and fragility of the natural world, to be less afraid of the wild
and what it represents. She believes that we cannot take away “WILDNESS.” For in that space we can
sympathize with the animal & it’s requirements, it’s needs. The way she sees a scene, or the way she
chooses to interpret that scene opens up many avenues of creativity so that she can explore them all.
Above all, she has patience to wait for the right subject to come along…
Artist Statement:
My wild legacies represent a long journey of past actions and decisions on my part. I always felt as if there was more out there to be seen and discovered.
After watching a dying polar bear struggle to survive in the Arctic, river rafting through the Tortuguero Jungle in Costa Rica, and experiencing fatalities from the drought in Africa, I was consumed by the fact that these endangered species, living in many tenuous environments, were in desperate need of help.
Their lives represent a parallel life to ours except…
Think of them as:
· Doting parents
· Drs. and nurses for themselves
· Lawyers that don’t have their day in court
· Children that have few adoption agencies
My photography captures wildlife and landscapes that could be lost at anytime and saved at any time as well.
