Went to visit my best friend Jovita at the farm this weekend, was gorgeous..sun shining through the trees, birds singing, and all my favorite goats, Softy TaTa, Randal Peach Jones and of course No No.
August 31, 2010
Critical Mass Finalist
Laura Pressley at Center recommended I enter this contest, so I did and now i’m a finalist, looks like there are about 500 other finalists as well but who cares, I love it!
4Culture Grant 2010!
Now I have received two grants for my new work, For The Innocent, coming soon!
July 12, 2010
Really cute horse bottom……
This weekend at Sweetwater was exceptionally exceptional, although I can’t ride my horse much, I get to pet, brush and talk to them which pleases me into the extremes. It was hot and the sun beat down and felt good into our overly wintered bones, I took this shot of maybe the cutest horse butt i’ve ever seen.
June 30, 2010
Getty Images Grant For Good
The news is out, I won!!!!
Cophine…..
The prettiest little girl and in the sunshine playing with her pistachios, so gently reminds me of the slow, tiny universe that humans so often ignore and forget…….the universe that lives so vibrantly and is the essential ingredient in happiness, animals have it still.
June 7, 2010
May 6, 2010
An Eagle Named Freedom Has Arrived!
My very dear friend Jeff Guidry from the wildlife center wrote this book, it’s about his insanely amazing relationship with a very special eagle who has now become my friend too. I hope you get a chance to check it out. Also, I shot the cover and back jacket photos and also some inside shots!
January 9, 2010
Finding Trust: Lecture Saturday 9th Jan at The Frye Art Museum Seattle
Blue Earth Lecture Series
A Barn Owl that is undergoing rehabilitation leaps from the top of his cage at Sarvey Wildlife Care Center in Arlington, Washington. © Annie Marie Musselman .
Blue Earth is proud to host photographer Annie Marie Musselman presenting “Finding Trust: My Discoveries At A Small Wildlife Sanctuary,” the second in our 2009-2010 lecture series on documentary photography focusing on global environments, social, and cultural issues. Musselman will be speaking in Seattle at the Frye Art Museum on Saturday, January 9 at 2 p.m.
“Finding Trust, the photo essay,” according to Musselman, “began 6 years ago at the Sarvey Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, a small sanctuary 75 miles north of Seattle, Washington where I live and work as a photographer. In 2002 when my mother passed away, I was left looking for something to hold on to, something real to photograph, and found the Sarvey Wildlife Rehabilitation Center. Located in the foothills of the beautiful Cascade Mountain Range, it is a place where injured, wild creatures come to finish their journey or start a new one. The photographs I produce document the delicate union that exists between humans and animals. It’s not just the actual places where were our lives often intersect, like a park or forest, but the spaces where our emotions meet. The work documents the infirmed animals’ recovery with a sense of wonder as they heal, hoping to return to the wild forests of the Northwest. I hope to capture the palpable emotions in my photographs because I can’t help but contemplate how much we actually know about each other.”
Musselman received her BFA at Principia College in 1996 after a photography apprenticeship in Marseilles, France. Finding Trust won first place in the 2006 Environmental Photography Invitational and was featured in American Photography 22 and 25. Her work has been exhibited at the Seattle Public Library Downtown, The Photographic Center Northwest in “A Delicate Balance”, The Alice Austen House Museum, NYC 2009 and currently at the Ansel Adams Gallery in Nappa Valley, CA. With the intention of expanding her work with animals, Musselman visited Borneo to study and document endangered orangutans in sanctuaries; this work appeared in Newsweek Aug. 11, 2009. Finding Trust is represented by Redux Pictures, NYC. Musselman’s work can also be seen in several magazines including Outside, Mother Jones, Travel + Leisure, The New York Times, The Fader and National Geographic Adventure.
Tickets available at the door. Free to Blue Earth and Frye members; $10 for non-members; $5 for students with ID.
Upcoming Lectures
Annie Marie Musselman – January 9, 2010
“Finding Trust: My Discoveries At A Small Wildlife Sanctuary”
Stephen Harrison – March 13, 2010
“The Brain Through The Eyes Of The Beholder: New Explorations in Art, Neuroscience and Cognition”
Jon Orlando – May 15, 2010
“Warriors for Peace: Stories of Resistance and Renewal”
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December 18, 2009
Lost In the Woods…………………
It was a very hard day for me at Sarvey, I picked up a hummingbird and a migrating juvenile snow goose from Renton Vet on my up to Granite Falls on a beautiful December morning….the sun was all sparkly, traffic was of course heavy on the 405, but I had a humming bird in my lap and a beautiful goose pecking away at the holding bin and watching me with big brown eyes, (one swelled with edema) as I drove down the highway…..
when I got to the center Freedom said hello, I brought in my injured friends, feeling happy to be where I felt so much love and to a place I have loved so many….I gave Sue her xmas present in the lounge, we were giggling together when Leslie came in with awful news, yes…….my little Angel, a raven I had bonded with intensely, like no bond I have know in my life to this point, had developed bumble foot, a problem when I first heard about it last summer made me laugh, the name atleast sounded so weird, but now I did not…..a complete sadness came over me, i’m not sure I want to share all the emotions and tears, it’s pretty much a blur the thoughts and feelings and visions, all my heart had felt from this tiny creature would end, it would destroy me, somehow something inside of me was dying……
The day was long, waiting with her in her cage, spending moments I thought would be lost in my dreams…waiting for dr. Kamaka to take her to the med room, look at her foot and tell me it was over…..
So i’m photographing….and waiting……
Dr. Kamaka….”Annie Marie!”
I go into the med room in tears, there she is laying on her back covered in a towel, her foot exposed……..and healed!
her foot is wrapped in a large bandage, almost so she can’t walk, she is put back into her cage, such a beautiful girl. I love her so much, staring deeply at each other, I whisper my prayers to her and tell her what I really feel…..it’s an amazing feeling to divulge your soul to another….specially to a Raven named Angel.