Interview with Shoutout Colorado Magazine
I was recently asked by Shoutout Colorado, an online only magazine that features creatives and entrepreneurs in Colorado, to do a brief interview with them. Admittedly I hadn’t heard of them before so I thought this was a prank. After all, who would want to interview me? Well, turns out they did. So I asked my friend Dave Purcell, fellow photographer and excellent portrait photographer, to take some “action” photos of me and to make me look ruggedly handsome in them. Dave objected, saying he wasn’t a magician but he eventually relented. I think he did an admirable job with very little good material to work with. This is a fairly short read with also some of my photographs in the article. The link to read it is https://shoutoutcolorado.com/meet-paul-malinowski/
Colorado Outdoors Magazine Cover
I was totally surprised and honored to see my image of Last Flight Out (it’s becoming popular!) grace the cover of the November/December 2024 issue of Colorado Outdoors Magazine, an actual print magazine. That is their annual photography issue and it’s loaded with great photographs of wildlife and nature by a variety of photographers.
Best in Show Award!
My image Last Flight Out of a male Wood Duck flying over the water of the lake in Sterne Park in Littleton with vivid Fall foliage reflections, has been awarded Best in Show of the Hit Me With Your Best Shot Photography Exhibit at the Gallery by the Lake in Lake Charles, Louisiana. This annual competition is a bird photography-only exhibit with incredible quality entries. If you’d like to see the exhibit online, the link is below. I am very honored and humbled to receive this award! https://gallerybythelake.org/2024-gallery
NANPA Top 250 Showcase Winners!
My images of Last Flight Out (see above) and It Was a Dark and Stormy Night (see below) have just been named to the North American Nature Photographers
Association (NANPA) Top 250 Showcase for 2025. NANPA is recognized for its membership of excellent nature photographers across North America. Every year they select the top 250 nature photographs in various categories. My two images were selected out of 3,200 entries (only 250 are selected) and I am incredibly honored to once again be in the Top 250 for the second year in a row with two photographs. To view all Top 250, click on the link here.
Dance of the Sugar Plum Cranes
This month blog article is about our newly designated national bird and you may be surprised what it is! To find out read here.
Right - This likely juvenile Red-Tailed Hawk did something rare that I got to witness and photograph in February. It stopped on the bank of the South Platte River for a drink of water. Notice how the light is a soften golden hue as it was just before sunset.
Right - This was the first Cormorant of the season I saw this year and I got him catching a fish
Right - As I got out of my car to photograph this pair of immature Bald Eagles I noticed the nearly full moon aligned behind them so I snapped a quick pic.
New Images
Right - Uh-oh. It’s the “big fish that got away” story but this time it’s true.
Right - A beautiful Bald Eagle glides in the sky in late afternoon light
Right - This is a rare (for us) Great-Tailed Grackle that I found recently at Chatfield state park by hearing its really unusual calls.
I continually update this website with new images of birds. This is where I will “introduce” them so that you can have just one place to look until I assign them to one of the galleries. So even if you’ve viewed my entire website many times, you will only need to come back to this page to see what’s new. As always, click any image to enlarge.
Right - Captured this Northern Flicker in flight. They can be a bit of a nuisance bird but their feather beauty cannot be denied.
Right - Here is that same hawk talking off from its brief respite.
Below - Here are more photos of ducks I recently spotted in the South Platte River
The flock of Mountain Bluebirds returned right on time to Chatfield state Park this March but it was very fleeting and I was fortunate to get the photos I did.
What is Bird Street Photography?
I have been fascinated – okay, obsessed – with photographing birds for a few years now. They are magnificent creatures who are largely unpredictable and a challenge to photograph. As opposed to static landscape and architectural photography (both of which I love to do), bird photography more closely resembles the genre of “street photography” but with trees, bushes, water, and the sky as their very busy streets. Like traditional “street photography”, you may be familiar with the location you go to, but you can never predict what scenes will unfold.
I am based in Littleton, Colorado and almost all of the images on this website are of “locals”, meaning not only did I photograph most of the birds here in Colorado, but the vast majority were photographed in the Littleton area. Some are year-round residents; others are migrants “fleeing” through the state.
Although I photograph a variety of species, I care much less about that than I do about catching a variety of avian activities such as fishing, eating, flying, courting, etc. All photos are completely natural, meaning I do not “stage” any setups by using “baiting” techniques, sound calls or perches. And although I edit my images in post-processing, I do not use Photoshop compositing such as changing out a sky or background unless I specifically indicate so.
Many of my images display a sense of whimsy or awe or anthropomorphic bird behavior that we recognize in our own behavior. I strive to move the viewer to feel an emotion, whether that be a smile or an “aww” or whatever pops into your heart.
This website is laid out in about a dozen galleries. Rather than have each gallery represent a bird species I have organized them by activities that birds typically do such as eating, fishing, flying, fighting, etc. To me this is a much more interesting way to present these images although I do try to identify species whenever known. I also try to use “Alt Text” on images to assist any visually impaired viewers of the site.
My photographs across the genres and subjects have been selected in over 80 juried competition art shows from San Francisco to New York, Chicago to Houston, Oregon to the Carolinas and, of course, my home state of Colorado. If you are looking for my other website that features other subjects such as Americana, architecture, and landscapes, please go to www.paulmalinowskiphotography.com.
I truly hope you enjoy my website. Please visit frequently as I will be continually updating the galleries with new photos of random “street photography” of birds.
Paul Malinowski
Colorado
Galleries
My Presentation of Wildlife Storytelling Through the Lens of a Bird Photographer now on YouTube
My free presentation of Wildlife Storytelling Through the Lens of a Bird Photographer that I presented to the Lone Tree Photo Club was recorded at can now be found on YouTube. The link is https://youtu.be/cQsVSf3hz0E My part starts at about the 12:20 mark and ends at about he 1:330:00 mark. It was really well-received and I think you’ll enjoy it.