Entry to the ENDANGERED Art & Photography Contest 2017

Green Peafowl by Lisa Ballard. All Rights Reserved.

I've been a professional photographer since 2003. I mostly shoot editorial images on assignment or for my stock file, but my passion is fine arts photography with a particular focus on our natural environment - a raging waterfall, an intimate close-up of a rare wildflower, the action of a bird or animal. Perhaps this endangered green peafowl (peacock), his tail open in full mating plumage, not only means to attract a mate but also the human eye urging us to protect this beautiful rare Asian bird.