photography, writing, handweaving
Our last trip over the mountains was too late for the red vine maples, but we got the full impact of the golden cottonwoods. We took a walk around Blackbird Island in Leavenworth, then stopped near Winton to take in the aspen groves there. Snow was beginning to creep down from the mountains – winter’s nearly arrived in the valley.
Art’s Alive! is this weekend in La Conner, WA! The local artists’ group that I belong to, Skagit Artists Together, is having a show in the Garden Club Building as part of this town-wide art event. We’re doing it as a fine art show but there will also be a gift area with cards and unframed prints. The show runs Friday through Sunday, November 2-4, and we’re having a reception on Friday evening from 4-7pm. I’d love to see you there!
When autumn colors are taking over, I do find it interesting to transmute things into black and white occasionally. This woodland was all greeny-yellow with lots of shifting shadows. Monochrome makes it particularly surreal, as if the image was made with an infrared filter.
This is how that same woodland path looks in color. Which do you like better?
What happens when you’re trying to take a picture of vivid orange dahlias right when the dog takes off after a squirrel.
We’re back in the season of morning fog. I love wandering down forest paths with mist flowing through the trees, and then climbing up above the marine layer to a sea of white, the islands and foothills poking up through. These photos were taken with my cell phone, which is why they’re a little grainy, but I still love the mood.
I keep meaning to come over here and add some of my new work, and somehow it keeps slipping my mind. I just decided to go back through my photos from this summer and pulled out some ocean shots I took on our road trip down to California. I had just bought a new camera and was still getting used to it, so most of the shots I took didn’t turn out as well as I’d hoped. Some of these, though, I’m very happy with. I particularly like the last one, which I took carelessly through the windshield as a joke for a friend of mine who likes Airstreams. Go figure.
I have two photos in the juried show out at the Anacortes Arts Festival this coming week! The reception for Arts at the Port is tomorrow, Saturday July 28 from 6-8pm, but then the show will be open through the next week and during the official art festival the following weekend. Hope you can check it out!
In a few weeks I’m looking forward to hanging work for an open house at the Peshastin Creek Gallery in the Wenatchee Valley on Saturday, July 14. My father, Dan Tuttle, will have new paintings on display, and I’ll be showing some of my new abstracts and landscapes, plus handwoven scarves and mug rugs. The gallery will be open from 1-9 pm, hope to see you there! You can find directions and samples of my father’s work at www.dantuttleart.com.
This coming weekend one of my photos will be hanging in the juried gallery at the Edmonds Arts Festival – a cropped version of the photo above. I made these images back in March, one bright morning after it had snowed, and the maple trees in my front yard were covered with beads of water from the melting snow. I rushed out with my camera to capture the light refracting through the water drops and loved the results I got.
One of my favorite places to walk with my camera is the loop road at Washington Park in Anacortes. Even on a cloudy day there are amazing possibilities for shooting water, trees and flowers. Ferries slide by in the distance, and sometimes the Olympic Mountains make a brief appearance. It’s a remarkable place.
Jessamyn Tuttle