I am pleased to announce that I will be at the Willapa Bay artist residency for the month of October. I was awarded this fellowship to do pinhole photography (what else?). I have been working away making a lot of experimental pinholes, long exposure to put around the Bay when I arrive. I only get to leave them up for a month. That month is important because if anyone has cameras out exposing, I must process them before I leave and send them back to you and then you need to not send me anymore cameras until November when I return. The post office will be holding my mail and so I won’t know if you sent in a camera and did not read this. I hope that you will get this information in a timely manner.
I am so excited to go the the Willapa Bay. I love that area so much and applied for this residency way before the pandemic began. I assumed that I did not receive it but then I received a lovely telephone call the other day asking if I would come for the month of October. My only hesitancy was my eye and I was afraid to say yes without asking my doctor. My sight is coming back and who needs eyes to do pinhole photographs anyway? Of course my doctor was very happy for me and said, your eye looks good, go. So I am off. I have been going to the Long Beach peninsula since 1985 because my dear friend Maureen’s parents lived there. I have taken hundreds of photographs down but very few pinholes. Maureen’s parents passed away a few years back and I have not been down since.
What will I shoot? I can think of so many places and I will have my car. There is of course, Oysterville, and then Leadbetter State Park, the ocean, the cemetery near Oysterville, the piles of oyster shells everywhere. And I hope to go to Bay Center which is one of my favorite places, across the Willapa Bay. My daughter grew up going down there and we always used to drive through Bay Center, out on a peninsula that is almost an island.
What is a Getaways? I have many of these images. They are from pinhole cameras that are placed on the car while taking a road trip,. I have done several recently. They are not of the Willapa Bay but what I have been doing recently via the long exposure pinholes. Enjoy and as always thanks for reading.
