Photos by Allison Ostertag.

Allison Ostertag

I know, I know shame on me I should have had this posted 5 hours ago. Well migraines are an unpredictable force and happen when they want to but I'm a little better, enough to post this now.

We're gonna spice visual arts up with some photos by Allison Ostertag.

One of Allison's influences is Williams Eggleston, especially his earlier colored work. She says his odd photography reminds her of an alien photographing our planet for the first time.

Allison was expose to photography in the 3rd grade when she was given a camera and went around school taken photos. That untrained, wide-eye approach is still with her today though she has had training and has a degree in photography as well as taught a few classes herself. One of the things that I do like about photography is it odd way of showing the world your missing and I don't think it's entirely because we're not paying attention but I don't really know.

A Philly native, she has lived in western New York, southern Utah and New Orleans. She enjoys the outdoors and grasps at any chance to be out and travel. Her explorer soul feed her like of wandering, and that can lead her down alleys looking for overlooked, new things. Allison loves the local building with their mixture of color and texture. This is one of the main reason I love her work. It's always interesting the odd colors that co-inside in our world.

Allison would love to travel to the west coast and photography in the national parks there or maybe see the Channel Islands. How about both but not at the same time! You can always help her go on that trip by stopping by here.