Tom & Pat Corey – May 2026 Speaker

Tom and Pat Cory have been professionally involved with photography for more than 40 years and have been members of PSC for many years. Their images have appeared in Outdoor Photographer, Blue Ridge Country, Sierra Club Calendars, and many other regional and national publications. For a number of years they led workshops and photo tours throughout the Americas, Europe, and the Pacific Rim.

Imaging birds is simultaneously challenging, frustrating, and rewarding. Challenging because you have to get close to a small critter that doesn’t want you close and whose movements are often fast and unpredictable. Frustrating because you may have to be very patient, manage harsh light and complex backgrounds while maintaining image quality at high ISO’s. Not to mention lugging around heavy, expensive equipment while baking or freezing and attracting every biting insect for miles.

But then there are the rewards when you create a beautiful image of a beautiful subject.

In our presentation we will discuss a diverse number of issues from equipment, to dealing with harsh light, to attracting birds, building perches, imaging birds in flight, and much more. Our goal is to help you to avoid many of the mistakes we have made in our 35 years as nature/travel photographers, and to help you to develop technique so you’re able to create images that you’re excited to share with others. And if you’re already an accomplished bird photographer to look at our images and think how you would improve them.

While many of the images we’ll show will be of tropical birds, we also want to motivate you to image more common, local species for they too can be very beautiful.