{"id":21166,"date":"2016-11-21T15:40:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T23:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.library.oregonstate.edu\/osu_archives\/?p=21166"},"modified":"2016-11-21T15:40:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T23:40:12","slug":"nature-photography-a-family-affair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/scarc\/2016\/11\/21\/nature-photography-a-family-affair\/","title":{"rendered":"Nature Photography: A Family Affair"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Umbrella blind set up at gnatcatcher\u2019s nest. William L. and Irene Finley standing by cholla cactus. Arizona, 1910.
OHS Research Library, Org. Lot 369, Finley A0063.<\/p><\/div>\n

William Finley and Herman Bohlman were not the only ones behind the camera. In the Finley household, photography was a family affair. \u00a0This month\u2019s installment of the\u00a0Reuniting Finley and Bohlman<\/a>\u00a0series looks at the close involvement Irene and the Finley children had in the later years of William Finley\u2019s work.<\/p>\n

Nellie Irene Barnhard met Finley when both were students at the University of California. The couple married in 1906 and moved to Oregon, where William had purchased a plot of land south of Portland at Jennings Lodge, a site that had long been a favorite for his wildlife photography and collecting.\u00a0 Their family expanded quickly in those early years with the birth of Phoebe Katherine in 1907 and William Jr. in 1908.<\/p>\n\n\t\t