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Get the buzz on bees with Julie Trail’s End Art Association
Tennis at the Seaside library
president to show photography
SEASIDE — At 1 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 24, Washing-
ton naturalist and beekeeper
extraordinaire Julie Tennis will
be buzzing in to the Seaside
Public Library to speak about
“What Beekeepers Do.” The
event is sponsored by the
Friends of the Seaside Library.
The art of beekeeping and
honey production has been
around for thousands of
years as evidenced by rock
paintings reckoned to be
older than 10,000 years B.C.
Tennis’s interest started
much later when in 2005 she
found out she was allergic to
sugar and began substituting
honey in recipes. She discov-
ered there was a heritage of
beekeeping in her family: Not
only did her father keep bees,
but her grandfather had kept
bees out at the family home-
stead in Arlington, Washing-
ton. Her father gave her a
hive to manage, along with
her grandfather’s smoker and
bee hood. That hive soon split
into two, and by 2011 she had
built her apiary to 10 hives.
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Julie Tennis of Naselle, Washington, will talk about beekeeping
Sept. 24 at the Seaside Public Library.
ipating in workshops about
native bees, Tennis’s appre-
ciation for the contribution
bees make to life on earth
has led to a love affair with
their perseverance, self-reli-
ance and determination.
Traditionally beekeeping
was carried out for honey
products, but today oth-
er aspects of natural bee
services are utilized, such as
all important crop pollina-
tion. Other hive products are
pollen, royal jelly, propolis
and bee venom, which is
an effective treatment for
rheumatic fever.
The Seaside Public
Library is located at 1131
Broadway. For more infor-
mation, call 503-738-6742
or visit www.seasidelibrary.
org
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GEARHART — This October,
Trail’s End Art Association
will feature the photography
of its president, Richard
Newman. His show “Pho-
tography on Metal” will in-
clude his most recent works
printed on aluminum.
The opening reception
will be held from 2 to 5 p.m.
Oct. 1 as part of the Gearhart
ArtWalk. The show will run
through the month of Octo-
ber. The public is welcome
to browse the gallery, locat-
ed at 656 A St., featuring
oil paintings, watercolors,
acrylics, photography, col-
lage and cards by associa-
tion members. Newman will
be present and available to
answer questions about his
work at the reception. For
more information about the
organization, visit www.
trailsendart.org
Newman grew up in
Cleveland, Ohio, and now
lives in Beaverton and
Gearhart. As a boy, he loved
the photographs in Life
magazine. The photos from
around the world showed
both the beauty of landscape
as well as the reality of life
in many different locations.
The one person Newman
admired the most was Ansel
Adams who exclusively
worked in black and white
and took scenic photographs
of the western U.S.
In high school and
college Newman was a pho-
tographer for his newspaper
and year book. In his senior
year of high school he was
the assistant photographer
for the city of Cleveland
and learned the ine art of
photography and darkroom
applications. After graduat-
ing from college, he entered
the business world in fabric
and design as a store man-
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“Old Door Kinsale Ireland” by
Richard Newman.
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“Red Breasted Sapsucker” by
Richard Newman.
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“Dingle Harbor Ireland” by
Richard Newman.
ager, consultant and sales
manager.
His love of photography
never faded, and when the
digital age of photography
started, he traded in his old
35mm camera. He current-
ly uses a Nikon 810 with
various lenses to capture his
photographs and Apple com-
puter to catalog and artfully
compose them.
Newman’s photogra-
phy focuses on landscape,
nature, sports and historical
objects. He prints photos
on various media, including
aluminum, glass and wood.
“Photography is not a
job for me, it is a passion
for capturing memories,”
he says. “What I try to do
is capture the images in an
artistic way by composition
or by enhancing them on
the computer to offer a new
perspective. Photography
has moved from just taking
the family pictures to that of
an art form using a camera
and a lens like an artist uses
a pallet and brush. It is the
individual who has the eye
to compose the art work
so others may enjoy their
efforts.”
Newman has been to
Europe 10 times and visited
29 countries. He also travels
the entire western United
States. His travels bring him
to new places and allow him
to explore the outdoors and
nature while also capturing
landscapes, icons and things
of beauty with his camera.
Once photographed, all of
his inishing work is done on
his computer at his home in
Beaverton.
Newman’s photograph of
a Douglas DC-3 ixed-wing
propeller-driven airliner
on aluminum received irst
place in the Trail’s End Art
Association’s annual judged
show in 2016. His photo-
graphs are hung in various
coffee shops in Beaver-
ton, and he has developed
his own website at win-
dow-to-the-world-photog-
raphy.com. His photographs
of the Bridge of Sighs and
the Leaning Tower of Pisa
in black and white were sold
to ABC television and used
on the TV show “Criminal
Minds.”