ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Telephoto and digitally enhanced shot of European Starlings. They are decendants from 60 common starlings that were released into New York's Central Park in 1890. Here are five from hundreds that swarmed in the early morning on a tree outside our bedroom window and across the Potomac River.

AUTHOR
James-Kimo Williams was born in Amityville, New York, and spent much of his childhood divided between Air Force bases, urban neighborhoods of Baltimore, rural Mississippi and on his grandparents’ sharecropper farm in North Carolina. Moving to Hawaii with his father in 1967, he volunteered to serve in the military and was deployed to Vietnam in 1970.

He holds an MA in Management from Webster University as well as a BA in Composition from Berklee College of Music in Boston. As a composer, he has released four CDs of original works, including two with his fusion ensemble “Kimotion”. His symphonic works have been performed by the symphonies of Detroit, Atlanta, Savannah, Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Alabama, Lancaster, PA, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam, Czech Republic and others. His string quartet “Into the Liquid” was commissioned by the New York-based Ethel quartet and premiered at the 2013 BAM Next Wave Festival. His AT&T commission, “Fanfare for Life” was performed July 7th, 2018 at the Antietam Battlegrounds in Sharpsburg MD by The Maryland Symphony Orchestra to celebrate Independence Day.



He also began his passion for photography while serving in Vietnam.
In 2003, he co-founded the “Lt Dan Band” featuring actor

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