AUGUST 11, 2016 // 7
Two photography shows celebrate
platinum and silver gelatin prints
LightBox Gallery
opens ‘Heavy
Metal II’ and
‘Deployed’ exhibits
ASTORIA — LightBox
Photographic Gallery
will host the opening and
artists’ reception of the
“Heavy Metal II” and
“Deployed” exhibits from
6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, Aug.
13. The exhibits feature a
collection of photographic
images printed using the
historic platinum/palladium
or silver gelatin printing
process.
Originally exhibited in
2012, the “Heavy Met-
al” show celebrates the
beauty and craftsmanship
of fiber silver gelatin and
platinum/palladium prints.
Practitioners of the art of
the platinum/palladium
process do so for their love
and respect of the medium.
LightBox honors those
photographers that perfect
the art of these century-old
photographic printing
methods.
Both of these printing
processes date back over
a century, but today their
fine qualities still make for
two of the most treasured
methods of printing in the
photographic arts. The plat-
inum print exhibits a fine
gradual tonal range, one of
its most special qualities.
Even more remarkable,
a platinum print has an
archival stability rated in
the thousands of years,
making it one of the most
beautiful and permanent of
all photographic printing
processes.
In contrast, the silver
gelatin print has its own
beauty and has an archival
stability rated at 100 years.
LightBox has always
exhibited the platinum
prints of juror Ray Bide-
gain, of Portland. Platinum
SUBMITTED PHOTO
“Shaman” by Sara Silks.
SUBMITTED PHOTO
“Still Life on Bench” by Kristo-
pher Dahl.
SUBMITTED PHOTO
“Three Trees, Montana” by
Bob Sanov.
and silver gelatin printing
have been practiced in the
LightBox darkroom for
years. With LightBox’s
love for these two historic
photographic processes, the
“Heavy Metal II” exhibit
was reborn. The exhibit
is juried by Bidegain with
over 40 photographers
featured.
Also opening on this
night at LightBox is
“Deployed: Haiti, Kosovo,
Iraq,” a series of silver
gelatin prints by photog-
rapher David Tucker of
Seattle. The photographs
were taken while Tucker
was a member of the U.S.
Army in Port-Au-Prince,
Haiti, from 1994 to 1995,
in Kosovo in 2000, and in
Baghdad, Iraq from May
2003 through March 2004.
Heavy Metal and De-
ployed will remain in the
gallery through Sept. 6.
LightBox promotes the
creative photographic arts
on the North Coast of Ore-
gon, offering memberships
to help further the mission
of the gallery. LightBox
provides fine art reproduc-
tion, restorations, photo-
graphic printing and other
photographic services.
LightBox offers scanning,
photo restorations, archival
printing and framing. The
gallery is located at 1045
Marine Drive. For more
information, call 503-468-
0238 or email info@light-
box-photographic.com
Beaver artwork wanted
for August 2017 art show
NEHALEM — The Lower
Nehalem Watershed Coun-
cil is partnering with The
Wetlands Conservancy to
host a Beaver Art Exhib-
it and Sale at the North
County Recreation District
during the month of August
2017 as part of a number of
exhibits around the state.
The project sponsors
are seeking artwork of
all kinds for the Nehalem
exhibition: photographs,
paintings, prints, cards,
quilts, etc. that depict bea-
vers and wetland habitat.
They can be in any style —
realistic, abstract, whimsi-
cal, collage, etc. Three-di-
mensional pieces could be
ceramic, wood, fiber art, or
other media.
Artists can choose to
sell or display their work.
A percentage of sales will
help support the conser-
vation activities of The
Wetlands Conservancy and
Lower Nehalem Water-
shed Council, a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit dedicated to the
preservation, protection
and enhancement of the
Lower Nehalem Watershed.
An opening reception,
presentations and tours are
also being planned.
Interested artists should
contact Sara Vickerman
by email at svickerman@
comcast.net or by calling
503-936-4284.
The Beaver Art Exhibit
and Sale at the NCRD in
Nehalem is just one of
several art exhibits planned
throughout Oregon by The
Wetlands Conservancy’s
Beaver Lodge advisory
group in honor of Interna-
tional Beaver Day on April
7, 2017.
Events will kick off in
February with a recep-
tion, exhibit and sale at
Oregon State University’s
LaSells-Stewart Center.
Other exhibits and events
will be held in Lake Os-
wego, Seaside and at the
Oregon Zoo.
The beaver, Oregon’s
state animal, has been woe-
fully misunderstood and
blamed for dam building,
flooding and munching
on plants. In fact, Oregon
beavers, nearly extirpated
by trappers by 1900, create
wetlands, spawning and
rearing habitat for salmon
and steelhead, habitat for
insects, birds and amphib-
ians, and create pools that
keep water clean and mod-
erate fluctuations in water
flow. They are nature’s
hydrologists.
There is growing appre-
ciation and recognition of
the positive benefits that
beavers play in Oregon.
The planned art exhibits in
2017 are a way to raise the
profile of beavers, wetlands
and Oregon artists.
How do ish and forests interact?
North Coast State
Forest Coalition
hosts Astoria talk
ASTORIA — Fish and
forests command signii-
cant attention in Oregon.
Both resources have a deep
history of contributing to the
state’s culture, economy and
ecology.
The North Coast State
Forest Coalition will host
the presentation “Our Fish
& Our Forests” at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Aug. 17. Bob
Rees and Ian Fergusson
will lead the presentation in
Room 310 of Clatsop Com-
munity College’s Towler
Hall.
The talk is aimed at
illuminating how ish — es-
pecially salmon and steel-
OPB PHOTO
Professional ishing guide
and nonproit director Bob
Rees is one of the presenters.
head — and forest interact.
How do coastal forested
watersheds impact salmonid
health? How, in turn, do ish
play a role in forest eco-
systems? And what are the
implications of the way we
manage these resources?
Rees is the executive
director of the Association
of Northwest Steelheaders
nonproit and a profession-
al ishing guide with over
20 years of experience on
Oregon’s waterways. A
sixth generation Oregonian,
Rees is schooled in isheries
technology, and he has a
deep understanding of the
life history of salmonids and
what it takes to keep wild
populations of ish healthy.
Fergusson is a river stew-
ard with Native Fish Society
and the resource director for
Association of Northwest
Steelheaders. For nearly two
decades, he has examined
wild steelhead populations
in the Salmonberry River,
a tributary of the Nehalem
River.