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SALISBURY, MD---Delaware photographer Kevin Fleming spent a decade with National Geographic, documenting subjects as diverse as the subatomic world of high-energy physics and the lives of New Zealand sheep ranchers.

Beginning Friday, January 28, images from his popular new book, Wild Delmarva, are on display in the LaMay Gallery of ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥’s Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art. A reception with the author is 5-7 p.m. that evening. Admission is $15, with proceeds benefiting the Ward Museum and Public Radio Delmarva. For tickets call 410-543-6895.

Featuring photos of Delmarva’s waterfowl, wildlife and landscape, Wild Delmarva was a project two years in the making. The follow-up to Fleming’s popular Wild Delaware photo compilation, it has quickly become the No. 1 selling book on the peninsula.

“Kevin has long experience and uses the latest high-tech camera equipment, but just as important, he spends a lot of time in nature, watching and waiting hours each day, every day there is decent light, year in, year out,” said Tom Horton, SU faculty and award-winning environmental author. “It shows in the rarely seen behaviors documented in the book; moments in the lives of animals most people will not encounter in a lifetime.”

Horton, who wrote the forward for Wild Delmarva, will attend the reception between 5-6 p.m.  Also featured is music by harpist Kara Dahl Russell, Public Radio Delmarva's new classical music host.   

The exhibit continues through Sunday, April 10. Regular museum hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $7, $6 for AAA members, $5 for seniors, $3 for non-SU students. A discounted family admission package is available for $17.

For more information call 410-742-4988 or visit the Ward Museum Web site at .