The Port Townsend Marine Science Center’s Flagship Landing Gallery will be featuring “Aves: Photographs of Birds” by Kerry Tremain, during the spring and summer weekends of the next three months.

Diane Quinn, executive director of the Marine Science Center, sees Port Townsend as “a place where art and science are at home together,” and touted “Aves” as “an ideal opportunity to connect our visitors to the natural world, so they can see life in a new way.”

Quinn characterized Tremain’s photos as “detailed records of birds we may have seen, but never quite as beautifully as he saw them with his camera.” She credited his “close, patient observation” of birds’ lives.

Brad Matsen, author of “Jacques Cousteau: The Sea King” and “Titanic’s Last Secrets: The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler,” likewise praised the “obsession” of Tremain’s photography.

“He went on expeditions with enthusiastic companions in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii, absorbing their knowledge of wildlife photography and birds,” Matsen said. “He published the first of two books of collected photographs from these sojourns, and mounted several exhibitions, all of which were received with praise, but also a sense of wonder.”

Tremain, a Port Townsend resident and past president of Northwind Art, has had his photographs exhibited in Port Angeles, Bremerton, Bainbridge Island and Portland, Oregon.

Tremain attributed his “Aves” photographs to a seven-year period, concluded only within the past year or two, that began a few years after moving to the Olympic Peninsula from Berkeley, California, in 2015.

Tremain said his photographic studies of birds increased his access to nature and cited the ways in which observing birds has historically enhanced humans’ survival, such as by alerting us to danger and food sources.

Tremain noted the relative popularity of birdwatching in this area, thanks to the more immediate proximity of birds, compared to a number of other species.That has been especially helpful to him as someone who had never studied ornithology formally.

“Even beyond our connections to birds in nature, there are so many mythological associations we have with birds,” Tremain said. “They appear in the artwork and storytelling of every culture.”

What to know

The Port Townsend Marine Science Center’s Flagship Landing Gallery is located at 1001 Water St. Its “Aves” exhibit will be open from noon to 3 p.m. Fridays through Sundays from March 14 to June 8.