Animals – Jessamyn Tuttle

the geese returneth

I’m not an experienced bird photographer and don’t have the best lenses for wildlife shooting, but when you’re driving by a field full of newly arrived snow geese and your camera is sitting on the passenger seat, you stop and try your luck. (And yes, this is what winter in Skagit Valley looks like. AlthoughContinue reading “the geese returneth”

kitten!

Look, some pictures of our new kitten! She hardly ever holds still unless she’s asleep, which makes for tricky photography. And a lot of pictures of sleeping kittens. And while I have your attention, I just wanted to let you know that I will be open for the downtown Bellingham artwalk this Friday, but notContinue reading “kitten!”

in memoriam

Yesterday we lost our little gray girly cat, Stella Luna Andrews. We got her in 1997 in Ellensburg. Her mother, a Siamese named Esmerelda, had been rescued from a house during a police raid, and a coworker of mine who did animal rescue saved us a kitten. We got Griffin at the same time, andContinue reading “in memoriam”

jump!

This afternoon we walked downtown to a local bakery so I could get a few photos for an article I’m writing. As I walked back to meet my husband, he was making our dog do some basic commands, and I lifted my camera to get a few shots just as she leaped into the airContinue reading “jump!”

Kitty evening

Somehow I never got around to finding a photo to post today, but here’s what I’m doing right now: propping up a cat.

cows aglow

Backlit cows in a green field. I was driving down Farm to Market Road and did a u-turn when I saw these guys.

cat on packing paper

I spent most of today hauling things around in the rain and packing for the Rexville show, and the few pictures I took are fairly worthless. Here’s a photo from last week of my cat Stella, holding down some packing material from an Amazon order. She’s old and creaky but still photogenic and cute asContinue reading “cat on packing paper”

equestrian adventures

This was a different sort of project for me – I had the opportunity to write a piece for the Cascadia Weekly on a local, mobile horseback riding instruction business called Rolling Stone Equestrian. I observed one lesson, then took one myself – the first time I’d been on a horse in approximately one millionContinue reading “equestrian adventures”

bees

My sweet autumn clematis is just coming out of full bloom. We had quite a few beautiful sunny days this month, and there were dozens of bees making good use of the white honey-scented flowers. I went out with my macro one day and got as close to the bees as a I could – theyContinue reading “bees”

moving targets

We went out to a friend’s farm last week, and I took the opportunity to try to get a few chicken pictures. Chickens, as it turns out, are really hard to shoot. They won’t stop moving! I suppose I should have upped my ISO to get a faster shutter speed, especially when they were throwingContinue reading “moving targets”