Stunning Photography - Friday, September 5th

First Friday’s in Belltown
6:00 - 8:00pm
Steven Fey Photography Gallery
2615 5th Ave. Seattle, WA 98121
206.443.6003

Come see our latest show, meet the artiest, enjoy local wine and hors d’oeuvres.

We are right by the Space Needle, off Denny Ave. (click here for directions)

Free parking too! Come join us for a great time!

Steven has been spending a good amount of time developing Ilfochrome prints. We’ll be framing some of these and hanging them in the gallery soon.

On July 10th, Steven joined the Wilderness Society at the Olympic Sculpture Park to celebrate the beautiful North Cascades. Check it out when you are in town.

Seattle is beautiful right now, and it’s a great time to get your portrait taken. It’s a wonderful experience. Steven Fey will photograph you and your family in a setting of your choice in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. It will be a treasure to last a lifetime. Call the gallery and set up your appointment right away.

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.

Since the last entry, I have been on two trips, first to Eastern Washington, and then to the Washington coast. In late December I traveled to the Grand Ronde River to do some steelhead flyfishing with my son. The Grand Ronde flows out of the Wallowa’s in Eastern Oregon, through a bit of Washington, and into Snake River. It was bitter cold and snowing, making it a difficult photographic challenge. The steelhead refused to cooperate with me, at least. My son, a gifted fisherman and fly tier, hooked up several times. One morning, camped by the stream, we got up before dawn to fish. It was 10 degrees, snowing sideways, and our waders and boots were frozen stiff from the day before. The dog refused to get out of the sleeping bag. I just looked at my son and said “reasonable people would wonder why we were doing this”. Ten minutes later, at first light, he had his first fish on. I intend to go back to the Grand Ronde to make photographs this spring when the snow melts. It is a beautiful stream.

The trip to Washington coast was also cold and snowing, with snow on the beaches right down to the tide line. Despite this, some nice images were made in some of my favorite places, Ruby and Fourth beaches, and along the Hoh River.

Otherwise, I have been shooting indoors for most of January and February. I have been doing mostly black and white figurative work with models, dancers, and a month to month series with a pregnant woman. For those into black and white photography, I have latched onto a mix of T-400, pyrogallol, warm-tone paper, and amidol that makes for beautiful skin tones with nudes and portraits. Look for some of these images in our people section.

Spring is a great time to think about portraiture. We do studio and location commissioned portrait work (and nudes). We are a perfect choice for those desiring to have artist made and signed portraits done with traditional film photography. Contact us for pricing and details.

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.

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!

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.