Bird photographer Dick Evans and writer and wilderness guide Hannah Hindley present In the Shadow of the Bridge: Birds of the Bay Area. In conversation with Ryan DiGaudio from Point Blue Conservation Science, whose scientists guided them into the world of birds.

In the Shadow of the Bridge is a sumptuously photographed art book that showcases the wild beauty and biodiversity of one of the most significant bird habitats in North America. With over 200 full-color images by acclaimed photographer Dick Evans and poetic prose by award-winning writer Hannah Hindley, the book captures the rich avian life of the San Francisco Bay bioregion—where the Pacific Flyway converges and more than half of the country’s bird species can be found.

Dick Evans became interested in photography as a graduate student at Stanford University and continued his practice throughout a forty-seven-year career in the global metals industry that took him all over the world. Evans is the author or coauthor of the photography books San Francisco and the Bay Area: The Haight-Ashbury Edition, The Mission, and San Francisco’s Chinatown.

Hannah Hindley is a wilderness guide and the recipient of the Thomas Wood Award in Journalism, the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, and the Barry Lopez Prize in Nonfiction. She graduated from Harvard with degrees in English and evolutionary biology; she holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from University of Arizona. Her environmental essays can be found in Bay Nature, The Sun, Hakai, and more. 

Ryan DiGaudio is the Working Lands Principal Ecologist at Point Blue Conservation Science. With a background in ecology and habitat restoration, Ryan works closely with landowners and agencies to align conservation goals with practical land management. He holds a B.A. from UC Santa Cruz and an M.S. from the University of Michigan, and is based at Point Blue’s Palomarin Field Station in the Point Reyes National Seashore. 

Our bookseller for this program is Book Passage Corte Madera.