Bio:
William is an award-winning exhibiting photographer and photo-illustrator with significant expertise in studio lighting, commercial photography, and compositing. William!s recent accomplishments include photographing multiple long term projects; “Holiday Windows”, “Conceptual Illustrative portraiture”, “Channeling Magritte”, documenting the SVA i3 Digital Photography Lectures, and “The Living Marsh”. William has also designed and self-published five books. William has given multiple presentations for Frank Meo’s Virtual Projections, as well as the Sierra Photo New York group, Adorama’s Photo Brigade, APA-NY/Adorama Event Space, SVA’s i3 Lecture, and the B & H Photo Event Space. He is currently serving as a Board member for the Sierra Photo New York group.
Statement:
The Living Marsh by William Douglas King
The Juvenile Yellow crowned Night Heron, is part of The Living Marsh, an on going
project which currently documents migrating birds that live in the salt marsh of Marine Park.
The Living Marsh project sprang from The Salt Marsh Nature Center as described below.
The Salt Marsh Nature Center is an ecological restoration project that has reclaimed
nature’s ecosystem. The tidal marsh is a time capsule in American history incorporating political transitions and their effect upon its ecosystem.
In 1665 the marsh depicted wide tracts of green grassy fertile salt marsh meadows, filled
with wildflowers, thickets of shrubs and vines that dominated the landscape. Myrtle warblers, grasshopper sparrows, cotton-tailed rabbits, ring-necked pheasants, horseshoe and fiddler crabs were but a small sampling of the plant and wildlife that inhabited the marsh.
By 1935 the marsh had become a dump, major land filling from 1945 to 1962 buried the
marshes around Gerritsen Creek under eight feet of garbage and construction debris. Unlawful dumping of chemicals, cars, refrigerators, stoves, tires, pollutants from leaky septic systems, and runoffs from oil stained roadways contributed to the environmental degradation and water pollution of the living marsh.
The Salt Marsh Nature Center has reclaimed nature’s ecosystem through the ecological
restoration of its salt marsh by the City of New York Parks and Recreation, New York
Department of Environmental Conservation, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The
restoration process is a long-term Project currently in progress today.
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