Heath Hen

Heath Hen – Trip to Martha’s Vineyard

Posted by Noppadol Paothong on Jun 3, 2011 in Heath Hen, Photoshooting | 0 comments

(The pink line indicates my trip to Martha’s Vineyard.) After two plane connections, two hours of driving, and one hour on a ferry, I finally arrived at Martha’s Vineyard, the place where the Heath Hen was last seen. It was a daunting task – ‘What should I photograph? What images can tell a story of a species that is already extinct?’ I decided to go to the place where the Heath Hen was last seen and photograph the landscape with an old picture of the bird. (I acquired old pictures of the Heath Hen from the Alfred Gross collection.) At Manuel F. Correllus State Forest stands a...