Picture Post: “Windmills, Maryhill, Washington.”
4×5 film image.
Facade # 2
Picture post. Gaia and I were in Portland last week, and we took some time to take some pictures in the east side industrial area near the waterfront. Here are two more pictures from the trip:BrickEastside Industrial, Portland
Summer Wildfires in Oregon and Washington
Charles Nelson House (pictured) was consumed by fire. This summer’s wildfires started a month early, and it showed no signs of letting up. This house pictured above burned in July in the Substation Fire. More fires started in the area...
Bokeh or Bust
Featured image: Dahlia in full flame-on at Draper Girls Farm in Parkdale, Oregon. I added a little Photoshop PFM to enhance. Within the last few years, I have begun learning the ins and outs of macro photography. I don’t have...
The Historic Columbia River Highway
The Old Gorge Highway is still closed between Bridal Veil and Ainsworth due the aftermath of the Eagle Creek fire. It’s been a heartbreaking 9 months since the fire started. Parenthetically, a small part of the fire re-ignted earlier this...
Terra Incognito
I have been looking to branch out into new territory both in location and subject matter, and in technique. After I took the plunge into digital photography, I continued on the path I set for my film photography, which was...
Hope Springs Eternal in the Columbia Gorge
Driving through the Columbia Gorge, as I do back and forth to work every weekday could have a tendency to make the spectacular into the mundane. I think about this sometimes when the light isn’t quite right, and I decline...
Flickr and the Art of Image Maintenance
When I first started posting my photos on Flickr in 2008, I had no idea what I was doing. I was a darkroom photographer trying to display my images on the internet with a race car computer and a horse-and-buggy...
Working Girls Hotel, Pendleton, Oregon. January 2018.
Working Girls Hotel, Pendleton, Oregon 2 This is from this month’s trip to Pendleton. The city has a very interesting, and occasionally scandalous, history, which is evident in the names of some of the establishments. In the early 1900’s, Pendleton...
Protrait work.
Recent portrait work. This is a film shot from March 2017 with Joe Ruffin and family. This one turned out pretty well.