Exploring Eclectic Perspectives in Images and Words

About

Martha Retallick is a Tucson-based documentary photographer and journalist.

She’s drawn to documentation projects that feature people in action. They’re building and renovating houses, creating or improving landscapes, and making and fixing things. Or they’re celebrating life passages like weddings, exhibiting vintage cars, competing in bicycle races, or just pedaling around town.

In addition to documentation, Martha enjoys photographing nature. She just published City Nature, a coffee table book that features the best of her nature photography. Learn more about City Nature.

Just Published!

A Whole Earth Catalog for our time, this book addresses all the important things: food, water, cookies, flowers, bees, and bicycles. Part practical guide, part personal diary, many parts gorgeous coffee table book, City Nature is for anyone looking to learn how to be a better steward of one’s own backyard, as well as a visual celebration of what grows from dirt when we take the time to nurture it. A must for the preservation of our dwindling resources, presented with positivity and
clear instructions!

– Carrie Seid, Artist and Creativity Consultant

Projects

From construction project documentation to weather monitoring, nature photography to language learning, and engineering research to low-cost landscaping, Martha Retallick’s diverse interests are on display here.

Documenting Construction

This is what happens when you buy a house that needs a lot of work…

The Accidental Birder

Doves teach me how to photograph birds.

Documenting My Yard

Gaining photography skills by focusing up close on backyard magic…

Blog

What will you find in Martha’s eclectic blog? Just about anything! She started blogging in 2007 and still hasn’t run out of things to write about.

Here are the latest posts:

Blogging My Book: Published!

Blogging My Book: Published!

The Rationale: Amidst ongoing news of water scarcity in the western United States, I see an opportunity. For nearly 20 years, I have been transforming my central Tucson home into an urban oasis. The secret to my success: Water harvesting. The Book: In my new…
Blogging My Book: On Press

Blogging My Book: On Press

While I was designing my book, I also was dreaming of Press Day. On that magical day, presses would roll, and, a few hours later, large stacks of paper would result. Those stacks of paper would then be bound into finished copies of City Nature.…

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