The Gallery has managed to survive the difficulties of the poor economy and we are looking forward to better times and a productive summer. We have had to scale back, however, on all of our activities but I have been able to do alot of darkroom printing over the winter with stockpiled materials. We greatly appreciate our gallery customers, especially the people who have chosen to add our prints to their art collections over the winter. You have kept us going!
I have done some location shooting since our last update. In the fall, I made some winemaker portraits and vinyard images in Walla Walla for our friends at Red Sky Winery. After the shoot, I traveled to the Eagle Cap Wilderness Area in Eastern Oregon to shoot in the valley of the Lostine River. Look for some black and white Lostine River images in the New Work section of the web site. I also did some figurative work in an architectural setting in the gun battery ruins of Fort Flagler on Marrowstone Island.
The Gallery continues to support organizations that are involved in environmental conservation. In the fall, we supported the Washington Wilderness Coalition with their annual auction. Recently, we supported the auction of the Coastal Conservation Association.
Please visit the Gallery over the summer. We will be hanging new work on a monthly basis and many of the images from the website are displayed on a regular basis.