Past Exhibits
Margaret Jean Fetz
“My Love for Photography ”
April 30th - June 10th, 2006
“The excitement of seeing images emerge kept me interested in photography as a lifelong hobby…I had fun!”
Margaret Jean Fetz has had a love of photography her entire adult life. As young parents, she and her husband, Charles, moved into a family-owned duplex in Laurelhurst in 1946. Her brother Bill, a photographer, had lived there previously and left his darkroom set up. Margaret Jean started taking pictures of her babies with a small inexpensive camera and printing them in the darkroom herself. 
Soon she saw the need for a better camera and purchased all new professional equipment, including two 4x5 cameras and four studio strobe lights, more darkroom equipment and other necessary items. Soon friends and neighbors began asking her to take pictures of their children and their weddings, and the Fetzes had a small business in their home for about six years.
Margaret Jean has been a member of Infinity Camera Club from 1972 to 2005, and a member of Professional Photographers of Oregon. She won many awards for her photography through the Columbia Council of Camera Clubs, an Interclub Council of Northwestern States. Her favorite photo subjects are portraits of people and flowers. She attended numerous 
classes through the years and learned a special lighting technique at a clinic with Dean Collins, which gave her the results she wanted for her portraits. Another technique she used with black and white photo developing is called the Sabattier Effect.
