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For two decades, he was a visitor, out to ride with the hunt or stay with friends for the weekend. Then a switch in jobs from the wholesale food business to wine importing left him free to switch residency as well. “I no longer had to be in D.C. every day, and where else does anybody want to live?” he asked rhetorically.
Inspired by Rappahannock and ensconced in a cottage on the outskirts of Washington, Pellegatta began his quest to capture the county on film.
“Living out here, I had more chances to explore,” he said. His little white car came to be a familiar sight, pulled off on the shoulder of a back road, the driver off traipsing with his camera ready to frame the perfect scene in the perfect light.
Initially, Pellegatta took photos just to please himself. “That was all it was going to be when I started - a hobby. But I liked some of the shots so much, I showed them to friends. When the fourth or fifth person said ’Ted, you should do something with that,’ I thought I might as well try.”
In the interim, Pellegatta had opened a gallery in Washington. To an eclectic collection of papier-mache sculpture, paintings, weavings and arty photographs, he hung a few of his pictures of Rappahannock -and his pictures of Rappahannock sold.
“I used to joke with these heavy duty photographers who had cover credits with Life and Time magazines that I was going to have to open a gallery so I’d have a place to hang my own work. All of a sudden, it wasn’t a joke anymore!”
By the time a flood in the basement gallery ended that venture, Pellegatta had already refocused his entrepreneurial energy on expanding the format for his camera and establishing
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