- May 2, 2024
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For self-taught photographer Charlie Badalati, it’s all about finding a scene that strikes a note in his heart and capturing that scene with his camera.
“I will refine an image in my mind and try to frame the picture to include only that which is most important to what has captured my interest,” he said.
Badalati will showcase his collection of color wild bird photographs 5:30-8:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 3, at Ocean Publishing, 200 S. Oceanshore Blvd., Flagler Beach.
“Coastal Wings” is a continuation of Ocean Publishing’s series of art shows featuring wildlife. In addition to Badalati’s collection of egrets, herons, purple gallinules, cormorants and roseate spoonbills, featured in the Main Gallery, several of his photographs of other wildlife will be on display in the Surf Gallery, along with the colorful acrylic paintings of St. Augustine’s Elizabeth Brody-Hastings.
“It’s very exciting to be able to share my vision of birds that I’ve captured with other people. It gives me a chance to broaden my reach,” Badalati said.
In 1980, after Badalati’s service in the Navy, he worked for a NATO command center in Maastricht, The Netherlands, and lived there and in Stuttgart, Germany, for the next 29 years. It was there that he began his photographic journey, photographing architecture and landscapes.
Having been retired in Palm Coast for the past three years, Badalati continues to photograph nature.
“When I saw his digital portfolio, I was impressed with the capturing that he did with the animals, birds specifically, and the clarity of his photographs,” said Frank Gromling, publisher at Ocean Publishing. “The framing was really just incredible. The reason that I feel that way is often people just take a picture of the bird and that’s the whole focus. But with Charlie it’s the bird in the environment. I was impressed.”
