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FRAME C is a beautiful distressed barn wood style gray/white
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Each print is framed using Conservation Acid Free & Lignin Free, Alkaline pH buffered matboard & backing.
We use non glare glass, You may call us to request regular glass if you like, Other styles of glass are available.
 In conservation framing, We use only Museum Quality materials and procedures that will have no adverse
effects on a piece of artwork and will protect the artwork from external damage.

The Mad Bluebird

5" x 7" $75.99
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8" x 10" $124.99
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16" x 20" $21599
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FRAME D is a beautiful distressed barn wood style red/black
Double Matted  Mad Bluebird Photo
Each print is framed using Conservation Acid Free & Lignin Free, Alkaline pH buffered matboard & backing.
We use non glare glass, You may call us to request regular glass if you like, Other styles of glass are available.
 In conservation framing, We use only Museum Quality materials and procedures that will have no adverse
effects on a piece of artwork and will protect the artwork from external damage.

the mad bluebird

5" x 7" $75.99
 Sale $69.99
O/S Dimension of Frame
9" x 11"

8" x 10" $124.99
 Sale $120.99
O/S Dimension of Frame
12" x 15"

11" x 14" $156.99
 Sale $145.99
O/S Dimension of Frame
18" x 22"

16" x 20" $215.99
 Sale $199.99
O/S Dimension of Frame
22" x 26"



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By Lisa Pollak/The Baltimore Sun

    Picture of a bluebird, that's all he was after. Not money and fame, not admirers and accolades, not the chance to quit his day job and take pictures full-time. Photographing birds was his passion; it always would be. One good shot out of 100 was worth it.   And so it was that on a cold February day in 1979, Michael L. Smith set up a tripod in his back yard, pointed his camera toward a fence post and waited.   And waited.   And waited.

    He wasn't trying to change his life. He wasn't trying to buy the house of his dreams. He wasn't trying to become Michael Smith, the guy who took that bluebird photo.   He was just trying to take a photo of a bluebird.   And here came his chance. A male Eastern bluebird flew into the back yard and landed on the fence post. It hunkered down. It fluffed up its feathers. It fixed its black beady eyes on the long lens of the camera.   Sixty feet away, Smith couldn't see any of this. He sat in his house, holding a remote camera trigger, watching the bluebird through a glass door.  All he could see was that the bird was facing the camera.   Click.   The bird flew away. The man went on with his life. Neither, it seems safe to say, had any idea what they'd done.   More than 20 years later, Smith still can't entirely believe it.   If you owed your fortune to a bird, you might not either.

    As it turned out, that was no ordinary bluebird. It was a grumpy bluebird. A ticked-off, glowering, down-in-the-beak bluebird. Or so it appeared to humans, and that's what mattered, because at last count humans have bought more than 102,000 signed prints of "The Mad Bluebird" -- a phenomenal number by most photographers' standards.     In other words, a man who has spent his life taking intimate portraits of birds -- a photographer who has slept in duck blinds, spent 13 years of summer weekends documenting the habits of a single osprey and crawled through his yard with a blanket over his head to avoid disturbing his subjects -- achieved his greatest success with a photo he didn't especially like the first time he saw it and still doesn't list among his very best.
   

    "It has put me in a whole new world financially," says Smith, "I was an electrician for 32 years, and I made good money, but nothing like this."   When he says it, he doesn't sound like he's gloating. He sounds proud, grateful and still plenty stunned. When Smith moved into his new home in fall 1998, a copy of "The Mad Bluebird" was the first possession over the threshold; today, a giant print above the kitchen table reminds him every day who he has to thank. He feels indebted to the bird not just for his home, but also for his girlfriend, Marci Krishnamoorthy, whom he met while delivering prints to the nature store where she worked.   Despite the volume of prints sold, Smith still signs each one by hand -- he bought a signature machine, but it felt too impersonal.
   
    There you have it. But what difference does it make? That once-anonymous bluebird -- who bird sources say surely died years ago -- has become "The Mad Bluebird." He has attained a level of fame that few humans can hope for! 

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