We’ve been celebrating at Steven Fey Photography! Steven went up to Index to help celebrate with the Washington Wilderness Coalition, senator Patty Murray, and many others in honor of the newly protected Wild Sky Wilderness area. Then we had two parties here in our Seattle gallery. The first was with the Sierra Club for new members, members new to the area and new volunteers. A great time was had by all! The partying continued with a smaller group of special people involved with the WWC, including Tom Uniack, Mike Town and a host of other friends. Please keep Steven Fey Photography gallery in mind for your event planning, as well as your photography needs. We are in a great location right near the Space Needle. It’s a great time to visit Seattle–the sun is shining and there is a light breeze and the mountains are out! See you soon.

On Wed. April 30th, The Seattle Times ran an article on the front page entitled, “Congress finally OKs Wild Sky” along with a photograph of Steven Fey’s of the West Cady Ridge. Yeah! This area is part of what will be the Wild Sky Wilderness in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. Conservation director of the Washington Wilderness Coalition, Tom Uniack, and many others have been tirelessly working to preserve 106,000 acres of forest in the Cascade Mountains. This will be the first new wilderness area in more than two decades. Come into the gallery and see all of our beautiful photographs of this region and more. Thank you for your support of fine art photography.

The gallery has continued its support of environmental organizations this month. We have started working with the Sierra Club to help them support their donors in their Washington Legacy council. In March, the Sierra Club and the gallery hosted a reception for the Legacy Council members. Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels attended and spoke about climate change and the movement within city government to reduce carbon emissions and conserve energy resources. We thank the Sierra Club and the Mayor for helping to make for such an enjoyable and stimulating evening at the gallery.

On Friday, April 11th the Seattle Times ran an article about Senator Patty Murray and the anticipated passage of legislation to bring the Wild Sky Wilderness Area into reality. The Times article was illustrated with a photograph of Eagle Lake in the Wild Sky that Steven made last summer while shooting the Wilderness Society. We thank the Wilderness Society for including the image on their press release and look forward to the final passage of this bill which will perserve the Wild Sky Wilderness area in the North Cascades.

Steven’s image “Spring Aspens, ” graced the cover this month of the American Psychologist, the primary journal of the American Psychological Association. This is our second American Psychologist cover. We thank Sandy Fowler and the APA editorial staff for helping to make these covers a reality.

Finally this month, there has been a change or personnel at the gallery. Brie Everard will be leaving the gallery director position but will be staying on as our Digital Imaging Specialist. Caron d’Amelio is the new Gallery Director. Caron comes to us from Kirsten Bunney Gallery in Maui, HI. Please call or stop by the gallery, and we can show you our beautiful landscapes in color or black and white, set up a portrait session or arrange for a private party.

Last month Steven’s image “Grand Staircase Aspens” graced the cover of the American Psychologist, the monthly journal of the American Psychological Association . We thank Sandy Fowler, the art editor, for facilitating this project and writing the biography that accompanied the cover piece

Also in November, Steven was invited to speak on a panel at the Portland Photographer’s Fanfare at the University of Portland. We thank Robert Brummitt of the Portland Photographer’s Association for the invitation.

Finally in November, the gallery donated a print to the annual auction to support the Washington Wilderness Coalition. This is the second year we have supported this organization and its important work locally to preserve natural places in this state.

Former Governor Dan Evans spoke at the dinner emphasizing the importance of coalition building in the political process to preserve the environment. The Seattle Times wrote a nice editorial about Dan Evans remarks that night. In December, we are beginning to do our first project with the Sierra Club. We will be providing gift packages, including cards and prints, for the donors to the local chapter.

Finally, the holidays are upon us. We extend our best wishes to all that visited and helped support the gallery this year. We invite you to visit the gallery this month and think about giving art for the holidays. Our prints are perfect for those people with empty wall space and a passion for the natural environment.

Steven’s adventures shooting in the proposed Wild Sky Wilderness in the North Cascades became a miss-adventure when he fell in a ravine with a big pack in Mid August and tore a hamstring. Five weeks to heal and he is back on the trail. The Wild Sky shooting has yielded a number of beautiful images that have used by the Wilderness Society. The images were displayed at the Wilderness Society national governor’s conference at Sun Mountain Lodge in September. They were also press released by the Wilderness Society and used for a story in the Wall Street Journal written by Jim Carlton appearing on September 24th.
A print from the Wild Sky shoot has also been donated to the Washington Wilderness Coalition to help support their activities. We thank the Wilderness Society for their support of these activities.

The Gallery also donated a large print to the Seattle Men’s and Women’s chorus for their Just Art auction in September. We have supported this organization now for three years.

Steven and the Gallery were featured in the September/October issue of View Camera Magazine. Look for the magazine at Borders’ or Barnes and Nobel. We thank Steve Simmons the publisher, and Eric Biggerstaff, the writer, for their kindness in the preparation of this feature article.

In late August, we flew with pilot Jim Craig out of Seward Alaska (www.sewardair.com) in a Cessna for a tour of the ice fields, Resurrection Bay, and Prince William Sound. Steven made a partially successful attempt at hanging a Hasselblad Camera out of the airplane to make some images. Look for some of them soon on the website. Besides being a great pilot, Jim Craig is a novelist who published his first book “North to Disaster“. It’s a great read!

Steven’s recent travels have taken him from the Oregon High desert, to the California Redwood coast, and to the North Cascades of Washington. He spent two weeks in May shooting editorial work for the Wilderness Society in South Eastern Oregon. The shoot began in the Steens Mountain area, a remote 9000 foot monolith near the Oregon-Nevada Border. Steens Mountain makes it own weather and the shoot was complicated with high winds, snow, and wildly fluctuating temperatures. The greenery and wildflowers were beautiful and the solitude profound. The editorial issues there involve Bureau of Land Management transportation planning and whether current roads should be restricted to foot travel and allowed to turn into trails.Our second Oregon location was in the Spring Basin Wilderness Study Unit near Madras. Spring Basin is a hot, dry piece of high desert country with beautiful wildflowers and challenging access problems because of some recent court decisions blocking the road to visitor travel.

In June, Steven went to the Redwoods in Northern California, a place he has been many times before. The wild rhododendrons were in bloom and we had several foggy windless days in the woods that were perfect for making images with view cameras.

Currently, Steven is working in the proposed Wild Sky Wilderness area in the North Cascades of Washington. We are collecting images for the gallery and the Wilderness Society in this diversely beautiful area. Access is another serious problem in the North Cascades this summer as many of the roads and trails have been washed out by the severe floods that we had last fall. Look for Wild Sky images on the site as the next two months progress.