Yaquina Art Association Artist Showcase
Phhotographers Andree Devine & Walt Duvall
November 8 – 21, 2025
Andrée Devine
Sharing the spotlight with Walter Duvall has special significance for Andrée. Prior to joining Yaquina Art Association, she visited the gallery on a day that he was staffing. “I wasn’t sure I was ready to display my work, but Walt asked to see my portfolio and was very encouraging. It was the confidence boost I needed.”
Andrée’s more formal photographic education took place in an unusual classroom: the sea. It was through underwater photography that she acquired much of her knowledge about manual control of camera settings, principles of lighting, and composition. Her “topside” photography focuses primarily on nature scenes and subjects, with some street photography and cityscapes thrown into the mix. An avid birder, Andrée enjoys the challenge of capturing birds in their natural environments with their
personalities on display. She also does landscape, seascape and travel photography, captures random small scenes, photographs the night sky, and experiments with intentional camera movement techniques.
In 2025, one of Andrée’s photos of microplastics proliferating a local beach was selected for an article about Surfrider Foundation efforts to protect Oregon beaches, appearing in the March/April 2025 issue of 1859 Oregon’s Magazine. Additionally, she photographed nearly 650 Oregon thundereggs (Oregon’s state rock) from a private collection for the independently published book Oregon Thundereggs: History, Lore and Identification. When not behind the camera, Andree is probably behind the computer working as a marketing communications consultant and copywriter, specializing in electron microscopy and materials science.
Walter Duvall, local sea and landscape artist working in photography, began his photographic journey 64 years ago in high school when he was inspired by landscapes created by B&W photographer, Ansel Adams. In the early 1970s, while in the military service, Mr. Duvall took correspondence courses through the New York Institute of Photography and has continued to seek photographic knowledge through workshops, seminars and online courses. Mr. Duvall’s passion is capturing the beauty of light and nature that surrounds us, both in color and B&W.
In 2002 he moved from film to digital photography and in 2014, when he began a transitional retirement from his 34 years as a Certified Financial Planner and investment advisor, he began devoting more time to his lifelong passion of photography working with such professionals as Art Wolfe, Mark Adamus, David Middleton and Brenda Berry. He has been published, both in magazines and brochures, won numerous awards, and has donated his time and talent to the Alaska Raptor Center, Sitka Conservation
Society, Oregon Coast Community Forest Association and Newport Fishermen’s Wives, helping all of them to promote their non-profit goals. Currently, Mr. Duvall is a member of Yaquina Arts Association, Yaquina Arts Association Photographers (YAAP), Oregon Central Coast Photography Group, and Oregon Professional Photographers Association.
“My photography is influenced by three professional photographers” explains Duvall. “First, from Ansel Adams who said, ‘You don’t take a photograph, you make it’; David Middleton who taught me, ‘Don’t settle for mediocrity’ and ‘Watch the edges of your image’, and lastly, Art Wolfe who told me, ‘Don’t take a postcard, look for art in a scene’. “These words”, states Duvall, “follow me every time I venture out to record nature and people”.
The Yaquina Art Association Gallery a 501c3 is located in Nye Beach at 789 NW Beach Drive. Hours of operation are 11 am to 4 pm every day. Interested in becoming a member of the Yaquina Art Association? We offer free classes, too. Please visit our gallery in Nye Beach for more. YAA has been serving over 135 local artists for over 77 years.
