Summer is here! It’s infrared season once again. Warm weather came late to the Pacific Northwest this year. That doesn’t happen often, but having a more temperate June was welcome. Now that July is here, I stocked up with infrared...
There are names, and then there are NAMES. In the Pacific Northwest, places like Portland, Eugene, or Klamath Falls have normal, family-oriented names, while Deadman Pass, Cape Disappointment, and Starvation Creek are another matter entirely. How did they get these...
An Elwood 8×10 enlarger arrives to stir things up a bit.
I have been at this for a long time. While not wishing to bathe in nostalgia, I wanted to go back and find earlier versions of recent photographs, and see how I have changed as a photographer, and how the...
The continuing story of the 8×10 Deardorff Camera After I picked up my Deardorff from having it repaired I was eager to get it out for a test. That was about the time that wildfires erupted in the West. Smoke...
A long time ago, I ran across a book called “The Art of Seeing.” Not to be confused with the book by Aldous Huxley, this described a way of seeing the world in such a way as to easily paint...
I like to take the Twirly Camera along whenever I am out to take pictures. For those not in the know, the “Twirly Camera” is a Noblex 06/150 Panoramic camera. It was made in the 1990’s, and it makes panoramic...
Rain usually does not come to the Columbia Gorge until late September, but we got an early shower today. It was good to see and feel. The American West has become drier over recent years, so much so that reservoirs...
I am inviting anyone in Portland, Oregon and surrounding towns to have your picture taken in black and white with an old-time large format 8×10″ film camera. I will travel as far as Hood River, or The Dalles if the...