All of the prints are archival giclees produced by us and in our studio. The term "giclee" refers to the printing process. This process provides wonderful color accuracy and detail without the dot pattern of an offset lithograph. David scans the original and uses photoshop to correct colors. Color correcting is a skill and can go quickly or take days of trying. We have a large format Epson printer and use Epson's archival inks on acid-free Somerset Velvet paper. The inks are light-fast and under normal household conditions will not fade for 100  years.

Pileated woodpeckers inhabit my woods along with red-bellied, downy, harry and a few red-headed woodpeckers. I’ve watched the pileated at work on deadwood near the house.  Chunks literally fly as they chisel relentlessly at one angle and then another. One spring, we were treated to a pair of pileated woodpeckers courting just outside the kitchen windows. They stayed on opposite sides of a tree trunk and spent a half hour spiraling up and down. Often, they hesitated and peeked around the trunk to check and make sure they still had the attention of the other. Eventually they took off for some more private location. A spring flirtation!

Woodpeckers are the carpenters of the bird world! Their ability to excavate nest cavities in trees makes them a valuable neighbor to many other birds who use abandoned cavities for nests of their own. A woodpecker’s specialized bone, bill and muscle structure is unique in the bird world and it protects them from brain damage as they hack, chisel and hammer hunting insects or making their homes. A woodpecker bill strikes a tree at a speed of 20 - 23 feet per second with an impact force of 600 to 1500 Gs. A survivable car crash rarely exceeds 100 Gs! Really impressive!