Newspace Center for Photography in Portland Oregon

I am very grateful that I have had a black and white image chosen to be in this fantastic gallery in Portland, the Newspace Center for Photography.  Thank you Newspace!

Winter - Lucy's Water Bowl, Baby Field Mouse

Beauty in the bath

Black Dog

How do you speak about all black dogs?

In love with gray

I went on a whirlwind road trip to the Oregon coast a few weeks ago.  It's fall so colors are starting to mute and there was a lovely palette of gray on the water, I can't resist it.

Happy Halloween

Blue and Gold

On the road again

Another hotel room, but at least I remember my own pillow from home, a poor substitute for a warm body.

Anticipation II

Anticipation

Roxanna

My college roommate and family came to visit over the 4th - beautiful family, beautiful children.  I broke out the Polaroid NPS camera and some color film.  Here's Roxie...

An afternoon on the lake

Barriers

Cages, wire, fear.

A bird can't fly on one wing

Looking back to old black and white negatives, I feel like I've gone so far and then I feel like I'm standing still.

Poppies

Overcome by nature's design

Starting seeds

Hiroshi Sugimoto Interview

Becoming an artist

Peeps

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Is there anything better than stale sugar-coated marshmallow?

Winter is hanging on

Butterflies and Anvils - New Photographic Journal

Visual artist and educator Eileen Rafferty has just published the first edition of Butterflies and Anvils, a quarterly photographic journal filled with inspiration and art.  The journal is available through Magcloud and you can purchase it through this link: http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/168106/follow .  

In each issue there is an extensive artist’s interview, beautiful photographs, creative writing, articles about technique and creativity and best of all - you actually hold it in your hands and feel the pages. 

I was honored to be chosen as the first artist interviewed in this journal.  You can see my work, read my words and see a photograph of "Bad Sandy".

Don't let this journal slip out of your hands.  We all need inspiration and Eileen Rafferty has succeeded in making something tangible and beautiful that we will return to over and over again. (And best of all, the spring issue will soon be available!)

Thank you Eileen!

Caught

i like this one better

Wyoming under water

This part of Wyoming, Ucross, used to be a redwood forest and completely under water a long long time ago.

Zoo Montana

On the way to my studio this morning

This one has ink on paper too.  I've discovered that by adding, drawing, wiping, smudging, my marks feel more solid.

First impressions

White sky
Green chair in my bedroom
Red barn
Rock house
White walls

On the way

On the way to the Ucross artist in residency program for two weeks.

2011 Who Let the Dogs Out spay - neuter clinic

2011 Who Let The Dogs Out Spay Neuter Clinic from elizabethstone on Vimeo.

My husband Jack and I went to the Bahamas again in January to volunteer for the second annual spay-neuter clinic.  As soon as we landed, I was energized, not only from the sunshine and warmth, but from doing something that feels good and right.  We were part of an amazing group of individuals who came together to help animals on the island of Exuma.  I was chief photographer but also got involved in picking animals up for the surgeries in some of the small communities.  Gas was $5.19 / gallon which made it impossible for individuals to drive their animals to the clinic and then pick them up after the surgeries.  The major economy for the island is tourism and they have been at 20% capacity the last couple of years.  You can see this down turn in the lives of the animals and the faces of the people.

For more information see this link on FaceBook and contact the Bahama Humane Society .

Dry spell

Mountain Lion