03/06/2025
An unexpected feature in the Spring edition of The Gorge Magazine fills my heart with gratitude!💗
Photographer Calley Lovett was hiking through a meadow near Mosier in early spring when she captured this ethereal image of grass widows in the morning light. “There were dew drops everywhere,” she said. “It was heavy on the grass and the flowers, creating these orb-looking things.” Photographs can “take you to another place,” she added. “It’s like, is this even real? Yes, it is, and it’s right in our backyard.” Lovett often writes a poetic caption to go with her images - an attempt, she says, to “connect with people’s hearts.” For this one, she wrote: The Living World is full of wonder & mystery...there is nothing of the mundane here... when my heart reaches out to befriend Life something shifts...it is like Life takes a great exhale welcoming me in as if I am family who has journeyed long & far away, finally returning home.
the photographer
CALLEY LOVETT began taking photographs years ago but got serious about it in 2018. “I bought my first fancy camera and became pretty addicted to it,” she said. These days, she works at Moon Mountain Highway in Bingen, a shop and studio featuring works of makers, artists and craftspeople, and is also a personal trainer. But whenever she has spare time, she likes to get outside with her camera. “It’s kind of meditative” she said. “It’s an excuse
to get me out with nature to connect, and it’s also hoping I can capture something beautiful that could possibly invoke wonder and awe in people who see it. With her photographs and her writing, Lovett hopes to inspire people to feel gratitude and love for nature. “That makes people more prone to protect it,” she said. “Here’s our beautiful environment. It needs protection. It needs people to care.” on Instagram.
