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Artist Patrick Rummans displays his combined love of birds and photography in the stunning Bird on a Wire show at the Holter Gallery in Helena, Montana. Patrick has had a life long connection with birds. He started out as a hunter, moved on to taxidermy, which in turn lead him to specialized animatronics. When Patrick picked up photography, it was the perfect marriage of his passion for the subject matter and compassion for conservation. Through his camera he could forever preserve the bird's beauty without harming the animal. His love for the subject is clear in his images.

We were honored to print and do the finishing for his show pieces. We hear the show is being well received. Patrick's success is well deserved, and it couldn't have happen to a nicer guy. Congrats!

Patrick's gorgeous images will be on display at the Holter Gallery until the end of December.

Whether birds are your passion – as they are for Patrick Rummans – or you lose yourself to the world of photography, you will want to visit this dazzling exhibition. His images range from precise images of familiar field birds to the abstracted feathers of an argus pheasant, from light-footed cranes to sinuous flamingoes. Each image will mesmerize you with its natural beauty and technical skill.

Photographer Patrick Rummans was raised in Lewistown, Montana. As a hunter, he spent a lot of time pursuing birds. The hunting led to taxidermy and eventually to his being one of the top bird taxidermists in the world. All during that time he kept, bred and raised a myriad of species in enormous aviaries that surrounded his home. 

As he and his business grew older, his perspective changed and he hunted less. He became involved with doing feather work for animatronics in the movie and television industry and it became his main line of work. In 2005 he worked on a movie project that took him to Australia for six months and it was there that photography became his new obsession.

“I realized then that I had hunted,” he says, “because I wanted to get closer to birds and understand them on every level. Taxidermy was my way of creating art with birds, and preserving that beauty forever. Photography allowed me to do all of that without causing any harm.”