By Bob Strohm
bstrohm@wbcowqel.com
Fans of nature, photography, and nature photography have a few days left to visit the Nature Center at Lowe-Volk Park for the Crawford Park District’s 2017 Nature Photography Exhibit.
Featuring 12 photographers’ pictures of their travels at home and abroad the Nature Photography Exhibit was put on display on February 13 and will run until February 28.
While this isn’t the first time a photography exhibit has been displayed at the Nature Center, Crawford Park District Director Bill Fisher explained what makes this exhibit unique.
“This is the first one that we have done this way. We have done a photo contest, that was one time, and before if we did nature photography we had usually one exhibitor,” Fisher said. “So, all of the panels were all one guy like from Galion, Mark Blum did it one year and when Mark did it, he had half the time, took his stuff down, and then Warren Uxley had the other half.
“But previous years we would ask somebody, whoever, and they came in and did the whole thing, but I like this a lot better,” Fisher added. “You go around and you see nature from so many different people’s perspective and where they traveled.”
Fisher spoke about how a few of the photographers hone in on a specific subject.
“Mark Dilley, he is an environmentalist, he goes to wetlands all the time, and that is what he takes. Bob Klips from Marion, he is a botanist, and well they all have amazing interests. One of them is just birds, it is amazing, and you can just go around on your own and interpret it. Klips, he didn’t want to put any information with his. He said, ‘Let people see them, don’t tell them what it is, and they can figure it out, see it, and have their own ideas,’ and that is really cool, too.”
The Nature Center is open Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
More information about the Crawford Park District can be found by visiting their website at www.crawfordparkdistrict.org, liking their Facebook page, or by calling 419-683-9000 during business hours.