Please visit my new website and blog to learn more about my latest efforts with mixed media photography: http://www.MargaretHelthaler.com
http://without-a-lens.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-website-and-blog.html
Autumnal Light • 8x8 Pigment Print This piece is one of several new images showing at the Catskill Artist Gallery's Holiday Show. The opening is Saturday, November 25 from 4 to 8 pm.
http://without-a-lens.blogspot.com/2011/11/autumnal-light-8x8-pigment-print-this.html
Catskill Winter Sky 3 • 8x8 Pigment Print • ©Margaret Helthaler 2011 Catskill Winter Sky 2 • 8x8 Pigment Print • ©Margaret Helthaler 2011 Catskill Winter Sky 1 • 8x8 Pigment Prin...
http://without-a-lens.blogspot.com/2011/10/catskill-winter-skies.html
Cape May Lighthouse • 8x8 pigment print • ©Margaret Helthaler My recent trip to the Jersey Shore has inspired a new body of work. Here the Cape May Lighthouse stands tall with just a hint ...
http://without-a-lens.blogspot.com/2011/10/little-tone-and-texture-adds-vintage.html
Approaching Storm • 12x18 pigment print • ©Margaret Helthaler Just spent a lovely weekend in Wildwood New Jersey and found the landscape - so different from the Catskills - inspirational a...
http://without-a-lens.blogspot.com/2011/10/approaching-storm-12x18-pigment-print.html
Our crocuses have come and gone, but the chilly weather remains. I awoke to heavy rain and remnants of snow here in the Catskills... I dream of warm sunshine and green subjects to photograph...
http://without-a-lens.blogspot.com/2011/04/looking-for-spring-in-catskills.html
Winter Morning Nostalgia plays a large role in my visual work. I suspect it comes from growing up in a multi-generation home, which imbued me with a strong awareness of a history before my own ...
http://without-a-lens.blogspot.com/2011/02/morning-light.html
Pages from my great-grandmother's autograph book, 1881 As I made a post to Facebook this morning – commenting on the weather and joking with a friend – I thought about the changes w...
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My Grandmother's Siblings circa 1903 Clark, George, and Alice Sheley They say you can’t go home again, and for the most part, this is true. When I visit our family property I no longer f...
http://without-a-lens.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-grandmothers-siblings-circa-1903.html
Our Family Home circa the 1920s? My resolution for 2011 is to carve out more time for personal projects... As you can see by this tardy blog post - I'm off to a great start. ;-) But I am going ...
http://without-a-lens.blogspot.com/2011/01/2011-resolutions.html
I see things first and foremost through the eyes of a designer. If I were to paint, I would be an abstract painter – reducing the natural world around me to the most basic elements of shape, c...
http://without-a-lens.blogspot.com/2009/12/appeal-of-square-format.html
Embracing the lens and the digital dark room - I intend to focus on wintery Catskill landscapes over the coming months...
http://without-a-lens.blogspot.com/2009/12/preliminary-stages-of-new-body-of-work.html
Some of my work is currently in a group show at the Catskill Artists Gallery , 38 Main Street, Liberty, NY. The show will be up until November 29.
http://without-a-lens.blogspot.com/2009/10/group-show-at-catskill-artist-gallery.html
Here's a link to a video of my lecture at SUNY College at New Paltz for anyone who is interested in watching: http://imsnp.mediasite.com/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=cda0329a26894e13903e66a8a7da8a69
http://without-a-lens.blogspot.com/2009/10/importance-of-physcial-processes-in.html
I have been invited to present a lecture on my work at SUNY College at New Paltz on 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday evening, October 21. Check out this link for more info...
http://without-a-lens.blogspot.com/2009/10/lecture-at-suny-collage-at-new-paltz.html
Deja Vu #5 and Deja Vu #4 • Pinhole Photographs with digital TTV effect I feel the pull of distance everyday. My daily life is separate from the land. I am too busy to stop and notice. I ...
http://without-a-lens.blogspot.com/2009/09/deja-vu-series.html
As the ongoing winter months cause the walls of my studio to close in on me, I find it appropriate to revisit some earlier writing. Here are some thoughts I penned a few years ago: A Sense of Ye...
http://without-a-lens.blogspot.com/2009/03/sense-of-yearning.html
I am by no means a botanist and only know the common names of a few flowers from having grown up in a rural environment. Of course this didn’t stop me from impressing some out of town friends y...
http://without-a-lens.blogspot.com/2009/02/new-york-wildflowers.html
Yellow Weed A few years ago when I began scanning subjects directly on my flatbed scanner I wasn't sure what to call the process. Ever willing to conduct some research, I searched the internet ...
http://without-a-lens.blogspot.com/2009/01/increasing-popularity-of-scanography.html
Beach Path I have been experimenting with digitally creating the TTV effect. TTV or "Through the Viewfinder" is the photographic process of taking a picture with one camera through the lens ...
People frequently ask me about my pinhole camera and pinhole photography in general. I first learned about this process when I was attending the Art Institute of Boston for my MFA. One of the f...
http://without-a-lens.blogspot.com/2007/12/about-my-pinhole-camera.html
Onion Blossom 8"x10" • pigment ink on archival paper • 2007 Artists tend to work with the tools they are familiar with. I know a master printer who creates beautiful paintings with a bra...
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Rafting the Delaware 1 16"x12" • pinhole photograph - pigment giclée on canvas • 2007 Last Sunday my family and I took a rafting trip on the Delaware River, PA/NY. It was cool and overc...
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My husband and I took our children to Wildwood, New Jersey for a mini vacation early this spring. We had the whole beach to ourselves and spent the days flying a kite, searching for shells and...
http://without-a-lens.blogspot.com/2007/04/pinhole-photographs-at-jersey-shore.html
For most of my adult life, my attachment to my childhood home has been a reoccurring theme in my art. I grew up in a farmhouse, built by my great-great grandfather, in a small town in the Catsk...
http://without-a-lens.blogspot.com/2007/02/impact-of-place.html