National Geographic photojournalist Charlie Hamilton James comes to Morristown April 19

National Geographic photojournalist Charlie Hamilton James will present "I Bought a Rainforest," a free lecture about his experiences in Peru's Manu National Park, as well as his adventures in Yellowstone National Park, as part of Mayo Performer Arts Center’s Earth Day lecture series. The lecture will be held Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Wed., April 19.

Tickets will be available starting noon beginning Mon., March 27. There is a four ticket limit.

Hamilton James is a photojournalist who specializes in wildlife and conservation. He has a particular interest in exposing "the brilliance of nature" in order to better document, understand, and save it. He has been obsessed with kingfishers-brightly plumed ambush hunters-since he was six, and with otters since he was ten. He has since become an authority on both, photographing kingfishers for National Geographic in 2009 and river otters in 2013.

Recently, Hamilton James has taken up residence in Yellowstone. Yellowstone is home to a wide variety of fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and 67 species of mammals, including some of our most embattled predators. For the May National Geographic story celebrating the National Park Service centennial in 2016, Hamilton James went beyond the park's boundaries from Wyoming into Idaho and Montana, to create a portrait of the one of the largest temperate-zone ecosystems on Earth.

The arts center isa t 100 South St., Morristown.

Information: www.mayoarts.org.