National award winning nature photographer Peter Riley will be showing and talking about his photos of birds, butterflies, wild flowers and dragonflies on Wednesday June 8. An avid birder and naturalist for forty years before picking up photography twelve years ago, Riley has won numerous photo contests, including the 2019 National Wildlife Federation contest that had more than 23,000 entrants. His work has appeared at the Smithsonian, been used by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the New Jersey Audubon Society and the Cape May Bird Observatory among others.

An Essex Junction resident who has travelled throughout the country and Europe as a performing musician and who has tuned more than 16,000 pianos in thirty-two years in his day job, Riley's talk will be aimed less at the technical aspects of photography and more toward when and where to shoot and how to approach and enjoy wildlife.

Questions by the audience are encouraged. This should be a fun evening.