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Welcome to My World, where the air is fresh and the Clouds are Beautiful

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STARLISA BLACK PHOTOGRAPHY

Darlisa Black   PO Box 190, Husum, WA 98623 http://www.starlisablackphotography.com

EMAIL:  starlisa.black@gmail.com

My Mother and Father taught me to love the world around me… and if I can help others to see with new eyes and find joy by showing that beauty through photography. I have accomplished my hearts goal. Husum, WA is my childhood home and I consider home to be anywhere from Mount Adams to the Columbia River. I give thanks to my parents for their love for Nature and God, and for the years we spent immersed in nature as i grew up in this paradise.

I do NOT have a storefront, but you can contact me about special orders .  MORE INFORMATION in sidebar links under Calendars and Books 

CURRENT EVENTS:  

February 2013 is a showing at Skyline Hospital, and 

March 2013 will be a showing in the White Salmon Library with an Artist Reception March 9,  6-8 pm.

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Photo notecards can be purchased locally at Artisan’s Jewelry and Gallery, in White Salmon; and in Heavenly Grounds in Trout Lake; as well as The Hood River Hotel gift shop.  In the summer I can often be found at the Trout Lake Saturday market with my new photo books, calendars, cards and prints.  Here is another link for a PDF brochure about Trout Lake, in Klickitat County, WA.

LINKS for my Photos online:

IN THE SIDEBAR ON THIS PAGE  are  links to all my photo sharing sites such as  Facebook,      Flickr,    and Google+ as well as my other blog  “In Search of Life’s Beauty”. 

Keeping up with this modern age of social media and such has finally pushed me into the modern age and I can now take debit and credit cards with my iPhone, as well as Paypal, cash and checks… got it covered! I do not yet have an internet storefront however.

Most of my images are available as prints of many sizes, as well as Metal Prints, Thin Wraps, Canvas Gallery Wraps of most sizes. 

The Photographer, Darlisa Black

There have been several gallery showings of my photography in 2011-2013

PREVIOUSLY SHOWN

at Grounds Espresso and North Shore Cafe,  and The Inn of the White Salmon,  and North Shore Clinic  in White Salmon, Washington;    Three finalist images in the Chasing the Light Show in the Columbia Art Gallery in Hood River, Oregon in August 2012.

December 2012 and January  2013 was a photo exhibit at Solstice Wood Fired Cafe in Bingen, WA.  

Published Works:

Several of my images have now been published in books, magazines and calendars .  Here are a few examples

“Weather Guide Calendar” by Accord Publishing has featured some of my rainbows and lenticular Clouds for 4 years running (2011, 2012 both have full page month images and 2013 had a small Lenticular  image. 2014 will have a full size Lightning photo)

“Weather of the Pacific Northwest” by Cliff Mass, atmospheric scientist at University of Washington, is an excellent weather book for the Northwest, and includes a lenticular image over Mount Adams.  On his weather blog, Cliff posted about my work, calling me a “SKY POET”.  I liked that!  I am particularly fond of Lenticular clouds and have a large collection of images featuring these unusual formations, and am known on Flickr as the Queen of Lenticulars!  That bit makes me chuckle… as I know I am no queen!  But I thank my Flickr and Facebook friends for the encouragement.

Cross Country Magazine has printed two of my Lenticular images in an article on Mountain Wave Clouds

The Stranger Magazine, Seattle Magazine, and others have published images of mine, and many  have been shown on news stations such as KOIN 6 and KPTV 12 over the last three years.

“The Infinity Loop”, a travel guide published by Clackamus County had a Gorge and Mount Hood image on the cover in

2011

On another note… I have two website addresses, starlisa.net currently points to this blog as the website with that name was hacked and I have yet to fix things!

Thank you for coming to VISIT!!!

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Sales on Photo Books starting 12/21/12

To THANK all my followers who have helped me create a small photo business to help support myself in life…

SALES ON THESE BOOKS< CLICK ON THE PHOTOS TO VIEW MORE INFORMATION ON EACH BOOK

I am running a sale on this book starting 12/21/12, taking $19.00 off the price! It is my biggest best book of the area around Mount Adams and Gifford Pinchot National Forest

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Photo Book, Trout Lake and Beyond.

THIS old favorite  8 1/2 x 11 inch book featuring photos of Mount Adams is also on  SALE  for $10.00 off the original price of $60, until supplies are gone

Front and Back Cover of the new book

Front and Back Cover of the new book

There are also a few copies left of this  8 x 8 inch book, also on sale $10 off the hard back and $5.00 off the paper back copy.   This was my original first book, and includes The Gorge, Mount Hood, Mount Adams, even the west coast!

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Snowstorm Dec. 15, 2012

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White Salmon was turned into a fairyland Saturday afternoon and evening, children and adults were throwing snowballs and walking around looking at Christmas lights in the snow… invigorating and beautiful!  Good to enjoy while you can, by morning it was half melted and looking more bleak.

These are all iPhone shots taken around town during the storm

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Damage Control

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I tell you I have been learning so much and sometimes it seems the more I learn the less I know. I am now redirecting my starlisa.net site back here again while we wipe out the whole site I had so lovingly built. i was creating it on a flawed base since that last hack job… and so it grew worse.

I will rebuild, perhaps with help, and it will be better than ever!

Meanwhile, I do still have 2013 calendars available… or will soon. I have sold out of what I had on hand and am ordering more~! Thanks everyone who has helped support me by purchasing my products, you have helped me to get through this difficult year. I love the way we can grow and stretch our minds and wings when there are challenges to overcome in life.

Meanwhile, check out my facebook and flickr pages, or Google+… there are many many photos there to look at, and a few on here as well in my links to books and galleries.

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Rainbows!

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For the first morning in a couple weeks gorgeous light filled my bedroom early this morning and this lovely rainbow was outside my window. I am glad I got a few shots with the iPhone because by the time I got downstairs it was fading. Unfortunately then I stepped outside my foot hit some wet leaves and I slipped torquing my knee really bad. I have it wrapped with ice and am trying to baby it while I run errands. The day continues to amaze me one minute the rain is pouring the next minute another rainbow! It does my heart some good.

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Fighting the Darkness with Light and Color

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I don’t know about you, but sometimes this time of year I feel heavy, slow… and sad as I think too much of those who have gone on.  This story explains a wee bit of how I came into Photography in a more serious way as a healing therapy.

My husband and father both passed away in 1996.  Some months after Mom’s passing in November 2003, I fell into depression and anxiety attacks.  I was on my way to work one early morning in Spring, barely aware of my surroundings.  When suddenly I heard her voice clear as day  from the seat next to me in the truck where she used to ride on our singing drives through the mountains. “Oh LOOK at the pretty sunrise” she said clearly… my head jerked up, and the sky was full of color and one of the prettiest sunrises I had ever seen!  I burst into tears, said thank you… and after that found myself really noticing the beauty in everything around me.  It was a couple more years before I got a little camera, while I was working at Cherry Street Manor as a caregiver in the adult foster care home.  I found my way out to Bird Creek Meadows on Mount Adams, for the first time since i was in my early 20′s, and took many photos that i brought back to share with the elders I was taking care of. Many of them had memories of places like that and I found it brightened their day also.  That led into taking more and more photos, and discovering Flickr in 2007 where I could post photos and learn from others around the world.

This remembering is a good reminder now for me, as it explains and reminds me where my gift of Photography came from, and how it is my heartfelt wish to share the photos with others  to help them see the beauty in the world around them.  And here I come back to the early thought that when you focus on the positive in this world, it will surround you.  I have been blessed to be surrounded by people in life who were indeed positive, creative, and loving!

 

The above image is a sampler image showing all the months of my 2013 calendar and you can find out more about how to order it over here   nearly half of them are spoken for already and they are not even here yet!  I will get more ordered.

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2013 Calender coming next week!

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This is the front cover of my new calender!

I have been lax about posting on this blog lately, because I have been working on my starlisa.net website.  You can find a new page on that site with photos showing my new 2013 photography calendar and more information about how to get them.  Please feel free to share the link with your friends and help me do advertising that way!

2013 Starlisa Black Photography Calendar information can be found here 

 

Thank you for looking and sharing!

Starlisa

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Fall and Photo shows

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Life is Good, Especially when you have moments like this one! I did not know what I was after or where I was going as I drove away from home… so I followed the light and it led me across the Hood River Bridge where I had a lovely afternoon among orchards and pastures.

Darlisa Black

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Please ask before using any of my photos, but you may certainly share by sending the link to my pages to your friends! I share them on here but I also partly make my living from this ability to do photography. Also I enjoy knowing where they get used, it makes me happy.

You can find out more about me and the products I have available on my profile on Flickr, and on this website in the various Page links in the side bar to the left.

and for a musical treat
My Daughter known as Leannan Sidhe who is a singer songwriter in the style somewhat of Enya.

Please keep my daughter’s music and my photography products in mind this year for Christmas Present ideas!
She has lovely albums, clever hats and clothing, and a short story in an anthology, and i have PHOTOGRAPHY! bet you did not guess! Almost done with my 2013 calendar, as the 2012 one was a big hit last year. I have several photo books now, you can see pages on my website showing photos from the books.

GALLERY SHOWS:

I currrently have a show up still at  The Inn of The White Salmon  which is a wonderful place to stay in White Salmon, Washington with easy access to both Mount Hood and Mount Adams as well as the Columbia River Gorge.  My show will be coming down soon and…on the  Last Friday gallery walk  in November I will be putting up a show at Solstice Wood Fired Cafe in Bingen, WA  and there WILL be a gallery opening event that evening, so come say hello!

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING OPPORTUNITIES:

I am getting signed up for 2 events at this time…

November 24, 2012 at            The Gorge Room at the Best Western Plus Hood River Inn , from 10am to 4pm

December 1, 2012                Trout Lake Christmas Baazar   (I think it opens at 9am)

ANYTIME:  contact me via email at starlisa.black@gmail.com  or phone or facebook message or talk to me if you see me around town… I have 3 different books currently on hand,   “Trout Lake and Beyond”  ”Moods of Mount Adams” and “Pacific Northwest” all of which are shown in detail on pages listed in the sidebar to the left.  I will soon have a 2013 calendar also which sold out quickly last year and I have already presold at least 12 already!   The CALENDAR will be $20 this year, and I am taking pre orders now.

I can take Paypal, checks, debit or credit, and cash

I also have lots of photo cards of this area and of the Cascade Creek Fire, as well as 8 x 10 images and many larger prints of really popular images.

This year the Metal Prints have taken off in popularity.. they are amazing and will last forever.  I recently did a portrait 20 x 30 on metal and it was lovely!

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Fire Helicopter Calendar available now!

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At the request of some of the Helitack crew at the airbase in Trout Lake (here for the Cascade Creek Fire on Mount Adams) I put together a calendar of Helicopters (and one plane used for Air Attack Platform coordination). These are custom design and I am only making a very limited quantity You can email me at starlisa.black@gmail.com if you want to order one. They are $25.00 each, plus $5 for shipping if you need it mailed, and tax if you are in Washington.

This album of photos represents the pages of this 2013 calendar