Oliver's Birds, 9781788840101
Hardcover
Breath-taking shots of birds from Oliver Hellowell, a young photographer with Down Syndrome. Chapters dedicated to birds of prey, seabirds and residents of the British garden, annotated with Oliver’s own notes

Oliver's Birds

by oliver hellowell

$40.42

  • Hardcover

    156 pages

  • Release Date

    31 January 2019

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Summary

Oliver doesn’t only snap birds; his camera shutter also clicks closed for the play of light across rippling water, the mist rising off a wood in early spring and the rolling Somerset hills where he was raised. But birds are a favourite subject of his, and his camera never fails to do them justice. Oliver’s sensitivity to lighting, colour contrast and mood imbues each picture with a unique atmosphere, resulting in precise shots of professional quality. The birds’ glossy eyes, their beaks, the …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781788840101
ISBN-10:1788840100
Author:Oliver Hellowell, Iolo Williams, Ken Jenkins
Publisher:ACC Art Books
Imprint:ACC Art Books
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:156
Release Date:31 January 2019
Weight:700g
Dimensions:175mm x 215mm
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Critics Review

“He has a specific approach to shooting birds. ‘I just worry about the eye – it has to be sharp.’ As for photographic advice Oliver recalls, ‘Ken Jenkins said to me, “Never lose the wonder”. I love that.’” – Steve Fairclough, Amateur Photographer

About The Author

Oliver Hellowell

Meet Oliver - a twenty-two-year-old photographer with a brilliant eye for bird photography, who also happens to have Down Syndrome. First picking up his camera at eleven, he has since sold photographs at exhibitions, collaborated with personalities such as television presenter Iolo Williams, and BBC Wildlife cameraman and photographer Richard Taylor Jones, gained a following of 60,000+ on Facebook and won the National Diversity Award for a UK Role Model for Disability.

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