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Wednesday, April 10, 2019 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Nature photographs featured in Sisters Library exhibit
By Helen Schmidling
Correspondent
A hungry grizzly charges
after a salmon in Alaska9s
Katmai River with one thing
on his mind 4food! From a
nearby watercraft, photogra-
pher Kathy Turner clicks her
camera9s shutter, bothered
neither by the raging bear nor
the fact that standing next to
her, clicking his own camera,
is world-famous photographer
Art Wolfe.
<I was more nervous about
the seaplane ride getting
there,= she said.
Two years ago, Kathy and
Boyd Turner joined the Art
Wolfe photography tour while
on their own epic 95-day jour-
ney in a fifth-wheel, to travel
and photograph the beauty
of what they call <The Land
of Salmon.= (www.boydand
kathyphotos.com/journal)
The Turners are new
members of the Sisters Area
Photography Club (SAPC),
which is holding its annual
exhibit in the Sisters Library
this month. The SAPC exhibit
opened April 2 throughout the
library and will remain on dis-
play until April 30.
The Turners recently
moved to Eagle Crest from
Fall River Mills, California,
after completing parallel
careers with the U.S. Forest
Service, mostly in Northern
California. Settling into the
Sisters area, they gravitated
to some of the usual local
scenic spots and shot photo-
graphs that bend the viewer9s
perspective.
One of Boyd9s small pho-
tographs looks like a foaming
ocean wave rolling in the sun
at the coast. But, look closer.
The blue is the unmistak-
able color of Wizard Falls on
the Metolius. Boyd focused
closely on one spot where the
water breaks over the rocks
and splashes back on itself.
Boyd does include an actual
ocean shot in his SAPC col-
lection, a photograph of rocks
and kelp taken one foggy
morning near Bandon.
Kathy plays with light and
fog and perspectives as well,
in a shot of a twisted juniper
on the edge of a precipice
at Dead Horse State Park in
Utah. The depth of field, the
rocks, and the fog combine to
trick the viewer into believ-
ing the gnarly tree is a giant,
with all of its lower foliage
stripped away. Kathy reveals
that the tree is only about
three feet tall.
Boyd got his first Kodak
Instamatic 100 when he was
in grade school. A few years
later, his parents gave him a
birthday gift of a basic SLR
film camera. He improved his
skills by taking a photogra-
phy class at Humboldt State
University. They met while
fighting wildland fires on
Mount Hood.
<His first gift to me was
a photograph of a trillium
flower he took in the forest,=
Kathy said.
Boyd got seriously hooked
on photography after he
made a photo that won hon-
orable mention in the Los
Angeles Times Home maga-
zine competition. He got
seriously hooked on Kathy,
too, and they will celebrate
their 40th wedding anniver-
sary in November. They have
two grown children and are
expecting their first grand-
child in the fall.
<Since we both worked
for the Forest Service, we
took advantage of our work
setting to explore and pho-
tograph the forest together,=
Kathy said. As part of a work
project, Boyd started using
a Kodak digital camera and
early versions of Photoshop
and Pagemaker to prepare
environmental documents.
<It was clear to me that
digital was the future, and
possessed incredible opportu-
nity,= Boyd said.
The SAPC show also fea-
tures work by local photog-
raphers from Curtiss Abbott
to Linda Ziegenhagen.
Abbott9s <Big Meadow=
depicts a stellar Sisters view
from Black Butte Ranch.
Ziegenhagen9s photographs
on canvas include two views
of Mount Hood and Trilium
Lake. A greater number of
photographs are shown on
metal this year, including Cat
PHOTO BY BOYD TURNER
“Kelp Line and Rocks” by Boyd Turner.
PHOTO BY KATHY TURNER
“Focused” by Kathy Turner.
PHOTO BY
HELEN SCHMIDLING
Kathy and Boyd Turner
Connor9s <Enchanted Forest
3 Proxy Falls= and <Gateway
to the Aurora.=
The Sisters
Area Photog-
raphy Club
meets at Sisters
Library, 4 p.m.
on the second
Wednesday of
each month.
A <photo chat=
meets at Takoda9s
in Sisters from 2:30
to 3:30 p.m. just prior
to each monthly meet-
ing. Meetings are open to the
public, and anyone may join
for annual dues of $25 ($15
for full-time students). Mem-
bers range from beginning
photographers to seasoned
professionals. <Sharing expe-
riences and information helps
everyone,= said founder Con-
rad Weiler. Club meetings fea-
ture speakers as well as pho-
tographic challenges, work-
ing toward the annual show.
The current club presi-
dent is Bill Birnbaum, with
past president Gary Miller
as vice president, Bruce
Barnes as treasurer, and Linda
Ziegenhagen as secretary. For
more information, see the
club9s website sistersphoto
club.smugmug.com, or email
sistersphotoclub@gmail.com.
These photographs will be in
the library until April 30.