©2020 Gary L. Quay I took this picture in October of 2020 in the shadow of Rowena Crest along the Historic Columbia River Highway. I’ve said it before, but Oregon’s dry side has become my favorite place in the world....
The Oregon Coast is a particularly stunning shoreline, sporting topographical marvels much more dramatic than merely the sandy interface between sea and land. The Pacific Northwest’s volcanic past left its mark with haystack rocks in the surf, and with the...
A couple of months ago, I created a makeshift darkroom out of a spare bathroom, and part of the spare bedroom. I did this with blackout curtains, thumb tacks, and gaffers’ tape. Soon after, I loaded some film, and made...
The title for this piece comes in part from an album title from 1983 by a band called Minutemen. The album was called “Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat.” Minutemen were a punk rock band, so the music...
Or Be Careful What You Wish For. You Just May Get It. I recently purchased a camera that I have wanted for the last 20 years. It’s a Noblex 06/150 medium format panoramic camera. I call it the “twirly camera”...
Introverts have no trouble social distancing. It’s the reverse of that which tends to make us uneasy. Still, while we shelter at home, cringing every Sunday when our iPhones notify us of the amount of our lives we have wasted...
It’s been 5 years since I packed up my last darkroom. My life as a photographer revolved around having a darkroom well into the digital age. I remember the moment that I started tearing apart the sink that I had...
These days, square pictures are all the rage on Instagram, and Facebook, but they certainly did not start there. There have been a variety of square format cameras from Polaroids to Mamiyas, going back many decades. I even had a...
When I started my photography blog in 2012, I had intended it to be in the vein of Ansel Adams’ many books of technical explanations of how he made his photographs. I intended to discuss the ways of the camera...
I’m rewriting a post that I wrote a few years back. I was short on time when I wrote the original, so I thought I needed to give the subject more attention. So, here goes… Looking Over Mosier from the...
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