A life with wings and stars.

KC Choo is an ARPS-credentialed nature photographer whose work spans both ends of the optical spectrum — from the smallest hummingbirds in a Costa Rican cloud forest to galaxies twenty million light-years from Earth. For four decades he has carried cameras into the field across ten countries: Australia, Bali, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, North America, Peru, Thailand, and the United Kingdom.

His bird work is best known for two long-running portfolios. The first is the hummingbirds of the Talamanca highlands in Costa Rica and the cloud forests of Ecuador, where he has spent many seasons photographing species like the Fiery-throated Hummingbird and Violet Sabrewing in their natural light. The second is the owls of the Pacific Northwest — Snowy, Barred, Great Horned, and Short-eared — photographed in the wide open marshes of British Columbia and Washington State.

From a small backyard observatory, KC turns the same patience to the deep sky. Working primarily in the Hubble Palette, he images nebulae, galaxies, globular clusters and comets across many nights of integration. The Wizard Nebula, Elephant Trunk, Crescent and Dumbbell are among forty-four deep-sky objects in his ongoing catalogue.

His work has been recognised with a Silver Medal and a Bronze Medal from the Royal Photographic Society's International Projected Image Exhibition, a Winner award from Nature's Best Photography (Windland Smith Rice International Awards), multiple Honourable Mentions from the Nature Photographers Network, and ongoing selection in the Naturescapes.Net Editor's Pick collections.

KC's photographs have appeared in the RPS Journal, BirdLife Quarterly, Nature Photographer Magazine, the Nature's Best Photography Annual, and Naturescapes.Net portfolios. He continues to shoot, write, and travel, and remains based in the Pacific Northwest.

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