Photographs "Young Pelican's View of the World" series

"Young Pelican's View of the Sunset"

"Young Pelican Seeing the Sights"

"Pelican's Sights"

"Pelican's View of the Sun Setting"

"Pelican's View of the World"

"Hanging Out With Friends"

(Hey you, are those your rigs out there fraking the ocean?)

"Boardwalk Empire of Urbane Birds"

(Hey, are those your oil rigs out there drilling the ocean?)

"Human's Are Funny Birds"

"Laughing Bird"

"Alien Resident" 

(with no international passport)

"Young Pelican's Glow at Sunset"

by Karin Lisa Atkinson

Location: Pier in Santa Barbara, 

Santa Ynez Mountains at Pacific Ocean in California

Camera: Sony DSC-RX100 M2 (pocket camera)

Conditions: Natural light, Sunset, big wind, no flash, no tripod

About: California Pelicans living in 'The Channel Islands'

Chumash people and Santa Ynez Chumash People (tribal website) 

Chumash Painted Cave State Historic Park

"Wise Old Bird, Grandfather Pelican The Elder" 

"Sunset Santa Ynez Mountains, Santa Barbara, California"

"Santa Ynez Mountain Sunset, Santa Barbara on the Pacific Ocean"

"Nightfall Santa Ynez Mountains, Santa Barbara, Pacific Ocean"