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If you’re in Olympia, you can pick up Washington Wide at Orca Books Co-op, 315 5th Ave SE, in the middle of downtown. Thank you to the Orca team for making room for it.
Orca is a cooperative, and the mission shows in the shelves: new, used, and out-of-print books at fair prices, plus cards, journals, and work by local artists. Parking is behind the building, with two free hours per customer.
The store is open every day, 11am to 7pm. The number is (360) 352-0123, and the website is orcabooks.com.
The book is 172 pages of Washington, shot on Velvia 50 film over thirty-plus years, with a foreword by Randy Lewis. Start there.
Not headed to Olympia? washingtonwide.com ships it to you.
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Washington Wide is now stocked at Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds. Thank you to Gwen Johnson and the team for carrying it.
Cascadia is a nonprofit museum devoted to the visual arts and design of the Northwest from 1860 to 1970. Its exhibitions, publications, and public programs give particular attention wide diversity of artists whose work shaped the region’s identity. It’s the only museum in the country dedicated solely to Northwest art.
This January, the museum opens a two-year exhibition on the history of Washington State art. A book about what this state looks like fits well in a museum devoted to the region’s art, and I’m glad it will be on the shelf while that exhibition runs.
Washington Wide is 172 pages of panoramic photographs, made over more than thirty years entirely on Fujichrome Velvia 50 film. It moves through glaciers, coast, high desert, and prairie, because one state holds more variety than most people expect. Randy Lewis wrote the foreword.
Cascadia Art Museum
190 Sunset Ave. S., #E, Edmonds, WA
Wednesday through Sunday, 11am to 5pm
Free every third Thursday
Washington Wide is also available to order at washingtonwide.com
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Washington Wide is now on the shelf at Book & Game in Walla Walla. It’s a beautiful store, and I’m honored to have the book there.
Book & Game sits at the corner of 1st and Main in historic downtown Walla Walla, in the building it has occupied since 1999. A local family has owned it since 2003, and it carries books, games, and a free out-of-print search service. If you’re in the Walla Walla Valley, it’s a good place to spend an afternoon.
Washington Wide is a 172-page hardcover of panoramic photographs shot on Fujichrome Velvia 50 film over more than thirty years, with a foreword by Randy Lewis. It covers glaciers, coast, high desert, and prairie, and Eastern Washington gets its full share of the book.
Book & Game Company
1st & Main, downtown Walla Walla, WA
509-529-9963
bookandgame.com
Can't get it in Walla Walla? Order a copy at washingtonwide.com.
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Washington Wide is now on the shelf at Wanderlust Book Lounge, Bothell’s independent bookstore. Thank you to the Wanderlust team for carrying it.
Wanderlust opened in June 2022 and is a good place to browse for a gift or a book to read through the fall. The staff will help you find something, in the store or by phone or email. It’s also close to home for me, so I’m glad to have the book there.
Washington Wide is a 172-page hardcover of panoramic photographs shot on Fujichrome Velvia 50 film over more than thirty years, with a foreword by Randy Lewis. It covers glaciers, coast, high desert, and prairie, because one state holds more variety than most people expect.
Wanderlust Book Lounge
10202 Northeast 185th Street, Bothell, WA
Open Wednesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm, and Sunday, 12pm to 5pm
(425) 205-9643
wanderlustbooklounge.com
Washington Wide is also available to order at washingtonwide.com.
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Washington Wide is now available at the Trillium Store, the gift shop at Bellevue Botanical Garden. Thank you to the Garden and the Bellevue Botanical Garden Society for carrying it.
The Trillium Store carries gifts, books, and work by local artists. Every purchase supports the Society’s educational programs and community events and helps pay for improvements to the Garden. It’s a good fit for this book, and a good reason to spend a fall afternoon in Bellevue.
Washington Wide is 172 pages of panoramic photographs shot on Fujichrome Velvia 50 film over more than thirty years, with a foreword by Randy Lewis. It covers glaciers, coast, high desert, and prairie, because one state holds more variety than most people expect.
Trillium Store at Bellevue Botanical Garden
12001 Main St, Bellevue, WA
October hours: daily, 10am to 4pm (closing at 3pm on October 31)
Society members save 10% at the store.
bellevuebotanical.org/gift-shop
Prefer to order from home? Get your copy at washingtonwide.com, and I’ll ship it to you.
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Washington Wide is headed to the Olympic Peninsula. The Port Angeles Fine Arts Center will carry the book, and I’m glad to have it there. Thank you to the team at PAFAC.
The Center is a gallery, arts center, and sculpture park in one. The Esther Webster Gallery hosts rotating exhibits, and Webster’s Woods Sculpture Park is open from dawn to dusk every day. It’s a good stop on a trip to Port Angeles, and the fall programming is worth planning around.
Washington Wide is 172 pages of panoramic photographs shot on Fujichrome Velvia 50 film over more than thirty years. It covers glaciers, coast, high desert, and prairie, and it was made to show how different one state can be from one end to the other. Randy Lewis wrote the foreword.
Port Angeles Fine Arts Center
1203 E. Lauridsen Blvd, Port Angeles, WA
Gallery hours: Thursday through Sunday, 11am to 5pm
pafac.org
If you can’t make the trip, you can order at washingtonwide.com.
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Blake Peterson of 425 Magazine has written a feature on Washington Wide. We talked over Zoom in late August, and the piece covers more ground than I expected.
It starts at 5 a.m. in the Skagit Valley in 1998, where I met Ken Duncan setting up a camera I'd never seen anything like. That meeting turned into a three-year collaboration and sent me toward panoramic photography, which I've shot ever since because our eyes see panoramically.
The article also covers what the book is about. Washington has glaciers, coast, high desert, and prairie inside one set of borders, and most books on the state stick to the Cascades and the coast. Washington Wide spans all of it, in six sections, across thirty years of film. Every frame was shot on Fujichrome Velvia 50 with a Noblex 135U or a Hasselblad XPan II and scanned by Michael Strickland.
It also tells two stories from the field: a Seattle sunrise shot from the top of an apartment building, and the people in Whitman County who pointed me to places I'd never have found on my own.
Read the feature in 425 Magazine →
Washington Wide is a 172-page hardcover with a foreword by Randy Lewis, and it ships now. Order at washingtonwide.com.
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Washington Wide is now on the shelf at Trail's End Bookstore in Winthrop. Thank you to for carrying it.
If you haven't been inside, go. It's a Western storefront on a wooden boardwalk, the kind of place you don't want to rush through. Fall is the time to make the trip. The larch and cottonwood color in the Methow Valley is some of the best in the state right now, and Winthrop is worth the drive on its own.
Trail's End Bookstore
241 Riverside Ave, Winthrop, WA
Washington Wide is a 172-page hardcover of panoramic Washington State landscapes, with a foreword by Randy Lewis.
Washington Wide is also available to order at washingtonwide.com.
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I joined Perrin Adams on the Great Big Photography World podcast for Episode #298, "The Patience of Panoramic Film." We talked about shooting panoramic slide film in Washington for thirty years and how that turned into Washington Wide.
We start with Ken Duncan and America Wide. When I was his assistant, he wanted to photograph the Statue of Liberty at a specific time, and it was closed. He told me to figure it out. That took calls to the Navy, two states, and the Coast Guard, and we got in. I've carried that lesson ever since: if you want the shot, go after it and don't put obstacles in your own way.
From there we get into the gear. I shoot Velvia 50 on a Hasselblad XPan II and a Noblex swing-lens camera, all on a tripod. The one person I trust to repair them is in his eighties and lives in Texas, so I've learned to improvise. When a small brass battery contact went missing from the Noblex, a piece of aluminum foil kept it running.
We also talk about what it took to get from slides to a printed book. The CMYK proofs were frustrating at first, and I learned the out-of-gamut warnings in Photoshop were more conservative than the files needed. I laid out about 85 small prints on the floor and sequenced the book by color, starting with blues and moving through greens and yellows into reds.
I also say why I'll eventually move to digital, and why I'll shoot film as long as I can.
Washington Wide is a 172-page hardcover with a foreword by Randy Lewis, and it ships now. Order at washingtonwide.com.
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Washington Wide has been accepted into the reference collection at Western Washington University's Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, housed in the Goltz-Murray Archives Building in Bellingham. A copy has been acquired for the Center's permanent holdings, joining WWU's broader collection on the region's history, culture, and landscape.