Natural Impressions Photography, Art, and Photo Restoration

09/28/2025

09/28/2025

I had an amazing time at The great Prosser Balloon Rally 9/7/2025.

There were 26 balloons and a great crowd.

01/25/2023

Oh my heart 🐕🥰😍

11/26/2022

Talented photographe ❤️

11/19/2022

Karimeh Abbud, who documented her people and country: "a woman, a Palestinian and a photographer, who a full century ago traveled through towns around the country and used her camera to capture the landscapes, buildings and people. “There were very few female photographers during that period,” he says. “It was not considered a suitable profession for women. We are aware of several Jewish female photographers, but Palestinian? Even now, you will not find that many Arab women going around the Levant with cameras.” ..
"“As a local photographer, as opposed to photographers who arrived here from outside the country, you can see what makes Abbud’s work unique,” says Sharon Laor-Sirak, the museum’s curator. “Unlike others, who depicted in their photographs a staged and fantastical dream, in Abbud’s work, you can really see a different perspective.”

"This is especially evident in the photos of people barefoot, in rags. Abbud photographed a woman selling akkoub (Gundelia tournefortii, a wild green that is also used for medicinal purposes). “A Western photographer would not have captured this, because as far as they would be concerned it was nothing more than a thorny w**d, but she was quite aware of what it was,” says Boaz. ..
"Abbud was born in Bethlehem in 1893 to Said Abbud, whose family came from south Lebanon – some sources say his given name was As’ad – and Barbara Badr. After working as a teacher and a lay preacher for several years he became a pastor in the Lutheran church. Her mother was a teacher. One of six children, she grew up in a home that was steeped in culture. For her 17th birthday, in 1913, he gave her a camera.

"She signed her first photographs, taken in the Nazareth area, “Mrs. Karimeh Abbud, Nazareth.” She studied Arabic literature at the American University of Beirut..." She took photographs there, and everywhere she went, recording women and children at weddings and other ceremonies, public buildings and landscapes. ..
"Mitri Raheb, the pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem, wrote in a biography of Abbud that she described herself in 1924 as “the only national photographer.”

"In 1929 Abbud married a merchant from Marjayoun in Lebanon. She gave birth to their child, a boy named Samir – during the couple’s brief sojourn in Brazil, according to some accounts – and died in 1940, at 47. The circumstances of her death are unknown. She was buried in Bethlehem.

"The curator and researcher of visual history Rona Sela described Abbud and the photographer Khalil Raad as “the pioneers of Palestinian photography.” Abbud is cited in her book, “Photography in Palestine/Eretz-Israel in the 1930s and ‘40s” (in Hebrew), published in 2000."

Unfortunately the article contains bombast from a collector, and begins by highlighting him and his perspectives. https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2022-09-22/ty-article-magazine/.premium/she-captured-palestinian-lives-100-years-ago/00000183-652d-db87-a18f-67bd2c1e0000

11/12/2022

So powerful.

Photographer Zach Coco has spent the past five years documenting more than 100 men and women's stories

11/08/2022

Colder weather.

06/18/2022

Thankfully their city didn't fall to the Russians.

11/17/2021

09/09/2021

In 1942, Dorothea Lange was hired by the US government to document the Japanese internment. When they saw her photos, they censored them for decades after.

09/01/2021