BREMERTON — She wandered across the property, changing lenses, adopting this perspective, then that one.
Then, quiet as a cottontail, Sequim photographer and Blue Whole Gallery member Karen Rozbicki Stringer began capturing dozens of images.
She was in rural North Dakota, outside the town of Rugby, after gaining permission to visit this place in order to photograph it. And as soon as she saw one building, Stringer caught her breath, saying softly, “Oh, there’s something here.”
“Capturing that ‘something’ is part of the joy of photography,” Rozbicki Stringer added in an email to the Peninsula Daily News.
That joy got a bit of enhancement when Stringer’s photo, “Nothing Endures but Change,” was chosen for the annual Collective Visions Gallery exhibition, a well-known Northwest art showcase.
Then, after the show opened last Saturday, the piece won second prize and $400 in the photography category.
“I was thrilled,” Rozbicki Stringer said, adding that it was an honor to be in the event at all.
The exhibition, known as the CVG Show, displays 130 works at Collective Visions, 331 Pacific Ave. in Bremerton.
Juror Greg Robinson, executive director of the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, selected them from some 800 entries from all over Washington state.
One more award has yet to be presented: the $300 People’s Choice prize. Voting is open to gallery visitors through Feb. 27; the CVG show will close Feb. 28.
The North Olympic Peninsula is well-represented here, with Clallam County artists Ryoko Toyama, Natalie Brown and Pamela Dick, Port Hadlock’s Carrie Goller and Jeane Myers and Port Townsend artists Carolyn Doe, Kim Simonelli, Leslie Schnick and Harold Nelson all chosen to show their works.
The Collective Visions gallery is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday and can be reached at 360-377-8327.
To find out more about the exhibition, see www.CVGShow.com, and to see more of Rozbicki Stringer’s work, visit the Blue Whole Gallery, 129 W. Washington St. in Sequim, or www.KarenStringerPhotography.com.
