The Experience, Alameda: Frank Bette Center for the Arts Photography Exhibit

The Experience:

Egret–Making Contact Runs Through August 6!

Egret – Making Contact, an interactive photography exhibit at the Frank Bette Center for the Arts, portrays the striking personalities of egrets at home in cities around the San Francisco Bay Area. With his lens, Gerry Traucht captures egrets standing gracefully at city entrances, by freeways, lagoons, and parks. He has taken special notice of Egrets in Alameda.

Traucht’s photographs reveal movement that looks like dance, close-up images of individual birds looking into the camera, and wild feathers caught in a frenzied fraction of a second. This collection of photographs is an invitation to appreciate the place where art, history, and nature convene and to celebrate the wild elegance, practically in our own backyards.

“What makes this exhibit special,” says Traucht, “is that my photographs were lucky enough to witness egrets in their apparently more mystical and otherworldly states. It is quite astounding to look into the eyes of these natural sentient ambassadors. Alameda folks should have a chance to see and experience the egrets in their transformative behavior.“

28 photographs displayed in the gallery and more in the video shows. An interactive photography exhibit not to miss!

The Frank Bette Center for the Arts is open Fri – Sun, 11am-5pm – July 23-25, July 30-Aug 1, and Fri, Aug 6, 2021.