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.

City Nature!

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:

Water Harvesting 101 Podcast: Episode 4 – Passive vs. Active

Water Harvesting 101 Podcast: Episode 4 – Passive vs. Active

In this episode, I introduce two ways to capture rainwater, passive (guiding water naturally through landscape design), and active (using systems like cisterns and greywater recycling).I also discuss how each method works, summarize the benefits of active and passive water harvesting, and offer real-life examples,…

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