January 22nd | Roy Dunn: Capturing Imagery of Our Wild Neighbors
Sunday, January 22, 4 - 5 p.m.
Photographer Roy Dunn plans ahead for a mountain lion shot. © Roy Dunn.
The resulting mountain lion shot, captured using camera trapping (remote cameras triggered by sensors). © Roy Dunn.
Join us for a very special gallery talk with featured wildlife photographer and cinematographer Roy Dunn on Sunday, January 22, 2023, 4 - 5 p.m. Dunn will provide a fascinating look behind camera trapping and ethical wildlife photography, and will discuss stories behind his photography on view as part of Wildlife on the Edge: Hilary Baker.
General admission is $10.00. Current Wildling Museum member admission is $5.00. Advance registration is encouraged.
About Roy Dunn
Roy Dunn, Gray Fox Pair (Urocyon cinereoargenteus) Above Los Angeles, c. 2018, Digital photographic print on aluminum. © Roy Dunn.
Roy Dunn is well-known for his expertise in capturing incredible images of hummingbirds interacting in flight using high-speed flash techniques and equipment he personally developed, as well as his fine art Essence portraiture. More recently, Dunn has focused his efforts on Southern California mountain lion conservation. Using state-of-the-art camera traps, which he helped develop, he has captured images and high-definition footage of these apex predators in and around Los Angeles at night including the world-famous P-22. Dunn is an advocate for ethical wildlife photography, and his mountain lion footage has appeared in Apple TV’s landmark series Earth at Night in Color as well as the recently released America the Beautiful on Disney+/NatGeo.
Dunn is Australian, and following his electrical studies at university in Australia, he began his career in 1983 doing microchip design in London. He became a global technical marketing manager in Electronic Design Automation which took him and his wife to the U.S. in 1996. Since then, he has consulted in many areas: radio-frequency identification (RFID) for histology, high-speed photographic flash design, advanced technology application, and now consults solely with Hadland Imaging Inc. - solutions for all High-Speed Imaging requirements (from 20 up to 20 million frames per second)!
His lifelong passion for photography has seen him perform workshops and research projects for Canon and he has presented to numerous natural history and photography organizations. He also helps with the annual short course on High-Speed Imaging at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He now shoots Sony cameras and Cognisys camera traps exclusively and regards himself as the luckiest guy alive.
Explore more of Roy Dunn’s work at www.humanstohummingbirds.com.