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Food Photography By Rebecca Mercado
I have always had a passion for cooking. Although I do not have much experience with photography of this sort, my passion for food has compelled me to want to share all the amazing delicious foods I make and eat with my friends and family (or anyone really). This...
Lightroom Basics
Lightroom can be a very complicated program that allows you to manipulate your photos to extraordinary lengths. Or Lightroom can be used in a more compact and direct program that helps you edit your photos in a more user-friendly way when compared to photoshop. For...
Limney Gallery Competition
The word Limner was first used in Medieval times to describe manuscript illuminators, and was later revived to define the self-employed, independent artists of Colonial America. When the Limney Gallery opened in 1987, it was infamous for its controversial and...
HALLOWEEN 2020
A new Halloween trend has spread across the internet,which entails dressing up as a bedsheet-ghost and producing wispy, festive, and spooky photos. This fad has taken over mainstream platforms like Twitter and TikTok and has reached our remote northwestern community...
Cyanotype Sun Print Project
You may have tried out cyanotype paper when you were younger, a cyan-blue paper that produces a print when exposed to sunlight while covered in objects or negatives for a prolonged time. Photography classes are dealing with a unique problem in a creative way, that...
Photoshop Editing Tutorial: The Orton Effect
The Orton Effect is a way of blending photos. It takes two photos of the same scene and mixes high and low details to create a single picture. This is different from the double exposure effect people do with photoshop or film cameras. Double exposure is when the...
Fall 2020 By Rebecca Mercado
Photo taken by me on my camera app! No fancy camera needed to act on inspiration Fall marks the end of the summer season and the transition into winter. The changes in color, temperature, and daily life can be a challenge for many people, myself included. Dark and...
Interview with Hafthor Yngvason, Director of the Western Gallery
Hafthor Yngvason is our Western Gallery Director who loves the art of sculpture and previously worked in Massachusetts and Iceland. Until he reached a tenure limit and moved to the PNW. In our interview, he shares his passions for public art, as well as expresses his...
Tone Curve Photoshop Tutorial
Learning to edit using photoshop, lightroom, or any other photo editing software, in general, can seem overwhelming and arduous. You’ll learn many different ways to enhance your photos like, how to color balance your photos, how to properly expose the lighting,...
Nathan Wilkinson Interview – 2020 Skipping Stone Scholarship recipient
David Johnston, co-owner of the Bellingham Herald building, invests his time and money into making downtown a place of community, efficiency, and functionality. Through revitalization of historic buildings, Johnston works to make the town’s infrastructure and...
Washington Trails Association’s Photo Contest
Washington Trails Association’s annual photo contest is almost over. As it draws to a close, there’s still time to take this opportunity to show off those summer and early fall photos you are especially proud of. There are five categories to submit to: Trailscapes,...
Alone Together: A Look Inside
ALONE TOGETHER as a portfolio addresses the current state of our world, a world currently caught in the midst of great political strife and the first global pandemic of any of our lifetimes. It includes work from all three photo classes taught during the spring term...
Recent Vogue Controversy and Hiring Diverse Photographers
A discussion recently arose regarding the hiring of diverse photographers after Annie Leibovitz was brought on to photograph Simone Biles for the cover of Vogue's August issue. The results, according to many critics, were not the best. This opens up the question -...
Alone Together
ALONE TOGETHER Considering the unique situation that we’re in and the strange times that we’re living through together, this project addresses some aspect of being ”ALONE TOGETHER” during the pandemic. It includes all three photo classes taught during the spring term...
An Interview With Rachel Hsu
Rachel Hsu is 27, goes by she/her pronouns, and was born in Kenmore, WA but is currently living in Philadelphia, PA. Rachel decided to go to Western because she wanted to pursue an art degree within Washington State. She also was interested in Western because she...
An Interview With Ashley Garrels
Ashley Garrels was born and raised in Seattle, uses She/her pronouns and is 28. Ashley went to Western because of the great art department and because many of her family members have went to Western. She has visited the campus many times and just fell in love with the...
Self-As-Subject Exhibition
Self-as-Subject Exhibition Winter 2019 This is a team-thematic project investigating the rich history behind and the physical construction of self-portraiture. It is inspired by the examples of photographers including: Richard Avedon, Vivian Maier, Cecil Beaton,...
Windows Serenade Art 372 Exhibition
Windows Serenade Exhibition The Windows Serenade Project was created by Rebekah Modrak, in which students are tasked with choosing a public-facing window in their home and treating it in some way so that it serves as a missive long-term portal to your neighbors and...
Windows Serenade Art 370 Exhibition
Windows Serenade Exhibition The Windows Serenade Project was created by Rebekah Modrak, in which students are tasked with choosing a public-facing window in their home and treating it in some way so that it serves as a missive long-term portal to your neighbors and...
An Interview with Quinton Maldonado
Interview With Quinton Maldonado Before over-viewing, the interview questions here is a little bit about Quinton Maldonado, Quinton Maldonado has completed his BFA in Studio Art with concentrations in...
High-Tech Low-Tech Exhibition
Click through here to see the artists' works. Scroll over an image to see the artist's name. Utilizing the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and the HOLGA toy camera, students juxtapose two interpretations using wildly different technologies.Conceptually, they...
An Interview With Joshua A. McDevitt
Interview With Joshua A. McDevitt So a little bit about Joshua before we get on to the titillating question portion of this interview, Joshua goes by he/him/his pronouns, is 28 years old, and is from Tacoma, WA. Joshua has been...
An Interview With Joel Aparicio
Interview with Joel Aparicio Bellingham Tsunami - Joel Aparicio A Love Story - Joel Aparicio Eye on the Ball - Joel Aparicio Joel Aparicio has studied at Western Washington University,...
An Interview With Payton Dickerson
Interview with Payton Dickerson A little bit about Payton before jumping into the interview. Payton was born in Portland, Oregon and has lived in Vancouver, Washington for most of his life. He is 25 years old and goes by he/him/his pronouns....