In the Shadow of the Bridge Book Talk with Diana Humple

Point Blue is featured in a new book!

Photographer Dick Evans and Author Hannah Hindley capture the rich birdlife of the San Francisco Bay Area in their new book In the Shadow of the Bridge: Birds of the Bay Area. The book captures not only the stunning beauty of resident and migratory birds, but also the stories they carry: tales of adaptation, survival, and deep interconnection with people and place. At once a work of art and a call to attention, proceeds from the book will benefit Point Blue whose scientists and educators guided Dick and Hannah into the world of birds and will appear with them in book talks around the Bay.

In this author event at Buteo Books, Dick and Hannah will discuss the factors that support such diverse bird life and why the Bay Area is a remarkable place for the study of birds and a potent catalyst for their preservation and protection—accompanied by a slideshow of Dick’s gorgeous photography. They will also be joined in conversation with Diana Humple of Point Blue Conservation Science whose work at Palomarin Field Station is featured in the book.

Dick Evans became interested in photography as a graduate student at Stanford University and continued his practice throughout a fifty-five-year career in the global metals industry that took him all over the world. San Francisco always remained home base, though, and he now lives in the city with his wife, Gretchen. Evans is the author of the photography books San Francisco and the Bay Area: The Haight-Ashbury Edition, The Mission (an Indie Book Award Finalist), and San Francisco’s Chinatown.

Hannah Hindley is a wilderness guide and the recipient of the Thomas Wood Award in Journalism, the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, and the Barry Lopez Prize in Nonfiction. She graduated from Harvard with degrees in English and evolutionary biology; she holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from University of Arizona. Her environmental essays can be found in Bay Nature, The Sun, Hakai, and more. Hannah writes about small creatures, big landscapes, and the scientists who love them.

Diana Humple is Senior Avian Ecologist and Banding Coordinator at Point Blue Conservation Science. With a background in ecology, bird banding, and migratory bird research, Diana leads the Palomarin Field Station, overseeing science, training, and outreach at this long-term research site in the Point Reyes National Seashore. She also manages landbird monitoring projects across the Bay Area and coordinates Point Blue’s oil spill response efforts. She has a B.S. from the University of Virginia and an M.S. from Sonoma State.

Register for the event here.