Cityscapes

As I said, Portland is an intensely beautiful city.  This page is under construction. I will be adding new pictures and commentary in the coming weeks.

Thanks for looking!

–Gary L. Quay

©2010 Gary L. Quay

Portland, Oregon, as seen from the southeast bank near OMSI. The morning sun is reflecteing off of the KOIN Center windows This was taken in 2010 on an 8×10 color negative.

Camera: Deardorff 8×10
Lens: 300mm Nikkor-W
Film: Kodak Portra 160 VC

©2000 Gary L. Quay

A view from the place voted “Best Place to Plummet to Your Death,”by Portlanders in the “Willamette Week.” High above Portland, Oregon, on the Vista Bridge, with its terrifying plunge to the street below, I set up my tripod and pointed my camera through the railing. This is a 30 second exposure.

This picture is hard to take these days because the bridge is now fenced.

Camera: Pentax 67,
Lens: 90mm Pentax,
Film: Fujichrome Velvia

©2018 Gary L. Quay

I always seem to end up near the Hawthorne Bridge when I’m taking Portland pictures. It really is one of Portland’s best bridges.

Portland, by the way, has the nickname (among others) “Bridgetown’. From south to north, they are (from memory) Sellwood Bridge, Ross Island, Marquam, Tillicum Crossing, Morrison, Burnside, Broadway, Steele, Freemont, Saint Johns, with Honorable Mentions: the Interstate Bridge, I-205, Abernathy, and the Oregon City Bridge.

Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: Vintage 35mm Nikkor

More to come soon.

Thanks for looking!

©2003 Gary L. Quay

I took this image about a week after the opening of the Eastbank Esplanade in Portland, Oregon.

Camera: Pentax 67
Lens: 55mm Pentax
Film: Fuji NPC 160

©1999 Gary L. Quay

1999 was a productive year for me, as viewers of my work may have noticed. I had bought my Hasselblad a year earlier, and I was getting used to a hand-held meter. My slides and negatives were beginning to look “professional,” and my employment situation left me open for both sunrise and sunset photography, which I had the energy and drive to take advantage of. I’m still exploring the work I made that year.

Camera: Hasselblad 500CM
Lens: 80mm Carl Zeiss
Film: Fujichrome Velvia

©2017 Gary L. Quay

I finally got to take night pictures on the Portland waterfront again after two years working an early shift and living in Hood River. I had just shot a wedding, and my lens was a little dirty, so some of my pictures were a bit messed up. This one was nice, though.

Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: 24-120mm Nikon ED

©1999 Gary L. Quay

I took this on a warm Sunday morning way back in the 20th Century. Another photographer was there, and we swapped storied, and he pulled out a Noblex camera and took a handheld panoramic of the city. I thought that was amazing. It was at that moment that I knew I wanted one. It took me 20 years to be able to afford one, but I got one in the Fall of 2019.

Camera: Hasselblad 500CM
Lens: 80mm Zeiss Planar
Film: Fujichrome Velvia 50.

©2019 Gary L. Quay

Portland’s Hawthorne Bridge in all its glory with the city in the background. This is still one of my favorite subjects, even after all these years. Interesting clouds are always a plus.

Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: 28-85mm Nikon-D

©2018 Gary L. Quay

Portland form across the river on a day with ever-changing light. The clouds were moving, but the air at ground level was still.

Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: 28-105mm Nikon-D

©2009 Gary L. Quay

Portland, Oregon from Vista Blvd, April 2009. It was part of the Night Shift Project.

Spring had almost sprung. I drove my aging Volvo into the West Hills high above Portland, and erected my tripod just up the road from the Vista Bridge. As was the case many nights before, my day job working on the night shift was keeping me awake on my days off. This is one result.

Camera: Deardorff 8×10
Lens: 19″ Goerz APO Artar
Film: Ilford HP5 Developed in Ilford Perceptol
Printed on Ilford MGIV RC