© 1999 Gary L. Quay
This is the famous Haystack Rock at Canon Beach, Oregon. I took this picture back in 1999 with a camera without internal metering. I was fairly new at it then, so I am pleasantly surprised that it turned out.
Camera: Hasselblad 500C
Lens: 80mm Carl Zeiss
Film: Fuji Velvia
©2009 Gary L. Quay
A very large cruise ship was moving out to sea when I took this one from the deck behind a restaurant near the Astoria-Megler Bridge.
Camera: Hasselblad 500CM.
Lens: 50mm Carl Zeiss.
Film: Kodak Ektar 100
©2022 Gary L. Quay
I finally made it to Cape Foulweather during some, well, foul weather in early December to make some picures for a project I’m working on. I got chased back into the car by a downpour shortly after this picture.
Camera: Hasselblad 500CM
Lens: 80mm Zeiss Planar
Film: Ilford FP4+ developed in 510-Pyro
©2009 Gary L. Quay
Cannon Beach is a great place to take in a sunset or two. On this particular evening, I got two. The color grew and faded, but came back for a second round. The colors have not been enhanced. All I did in Photoshop was color correct to make it look like the proof sheet.
Camera: Hasselblad 500 CM
Lens: 250mm Carl Zeiss
Film: Kodak 100 UC
©2011 Gary L. Quay
I wanted to get a picture of this for quite a while before I actually did. I like the bony, dead trees that punctuate the flat flood plane. By the time I actudally got to do it, many of them were gone.
Camera: Sinar Alpina 4×5.
Lens: 90mm Nikkor with a green filter.
Film: Kodak Tri-X developed in Agfa Rodinal.
©2010 Gary L. Quay
The clouds started at the coast range, and stayed for the duration. I was looking for a soft image, which I mostly achieved. I perched the Deardorff on top of the hill that overlooks Haystack rock, and installed the 4×5 back. Many cars passed by, but I heard the word “Deardorff” coming out of two of them. One driver turned back and stopped by to say, “nice camera.” I like having a famous (in some circles) camera. When I finally got around to taking the picture, I discovered that the Alphax shutter on my 19″ Goerz lens no longer functioned. In fact, it was stuck open. So, I used my hat for a shutter, and took four exposures: Two at 25 seconds at f64, and two at 1/2 second at f11. This is one of the f64 images.
Camera: Deardorff 8×10 with 4×5 back.
Lens: 19″ Goerz APO Artar with yellow filter.
Film: Efke PL 25 developed in Kodak D76.
©2000 Gary L. Quay
This image’s name is wrong. It’s actually nearer to Lincoln City, but them’s the breaks. It is just off of Hwy 101 on the Oregon coast. One of the telltale aspects of classic film shots is the silhouette.
Camera: Hasselblad 500 CM
Lens: 80mm Carl Zeiss
Film: Fuji Velvia.
©2000 Gary L. Quay
I’ve been to Florence, Oregon once. It was in 2000. I drove down there on a lark, and took some pictiures of this bridge, and I went to Coos Bay to take pictures of the dunes. I had only one lens for my Hasselblad at the time, so I made the best of it.
Camera: Hasselblad 500CM
Lens: 80mm Zeiss Planar
Film: Ilford FP4+
As the years went by, and fate made me hold my nose, and buy a digital camera, I soon found myself at the Oregon Coast with a Nikon D810, and an assortment of new and vintage lenses.
©2022 Gary L. Quay
It is not possible to get tired of this view at sunset. Cannon Beach with its famous and formidable and rock formation is one of the best places on the West Coast to drink in the last rays of sunlight before hitting a local restaurant for a bite and a brew. I first traveled there in 1992, after moving to Portland from Pennsylvania, and instantly fell in love with Oregon’s best coastal town.
Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: 28mm Zeiss Distagon ZF2
©2020 Gary L. Quay
I had the Lensbaby out for a spin Asotria with a friend from Salem in September 2020 for our yearly photo excursion. He always gets me thinking differently about composition. The Lansbaby sees the world a little differently than I’m used to, but that’s part of the joy.
Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: Lensbaby Velvet 56.
©2019 Gary L. Quay
A southbound picture at Depoe Bay, Oregon. I took it for a project for my food blog, which was about the best clam chowders of the northern Oregon Coast.
Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: 24-85mm Nikon
©2024 Gary L. Quay
I’m a big fan of bridges and other massive chunks of infrastructure like tunnels and trains. The Astoria-Megler Bridge is one of my favorites. I always like a bridge with a superlative attached, such as, oldest, longest, first, only – that sort of thing. Completed in 1966, and spanning 4 miles of river, this is the longest continuous truss bridge n North America.
Camera: Hasselblad Flexbody
Lens: 50mm Zeiss Distagon
Media: Hasselblad CFV 100C Digital Back
©2020 Gary L. Quay
Don’t be fooled into thinking that I have abandoned film. Oh, no. I’m still at it, and have a new darkroom.
I had a little trouble with this negative. One of the things I am doing is trying to get my film developing technique down to a science. When I have difficulties, and it can be traced to something I am doing, I do it differently. This negative has a slightly uneven sky. I think that’s due to the developing tray I was using. I’m not using it anymore. Still, I like the picture, and that’s why I present it here.
Camera: Deardorff 8×10
Lens: 165mm Schneider Angulon
Film: Bergger Panchro 400 developed in Eco-Pro Film Developer.
©2021 Gary L. Quay
Astoria has been one of the places I have turned to lately. There is so much history there, and so much weather.
Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: 150-600mm Tamron
©2021 Gary L. Quay
I saw these ships out on the river as I was leaving to go home. I stopped, and took some pictures, and two young women strolled up and asked about what the pylons were there for. I explained that they are the remains of canneries that used to line the river at Astoria. Then they asked about my photography. They seemed very pleasant to talk to, and showed a genuine interest in what I was doing. As they were about to continue on their way, one of them said, “Oh, and that’s a nice sunset.”
I turned to the west to see the beginnings of what turned out to be a spectacular sunset. The rest is history, and is just above this picture.
Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: Vintage 85mm Nikkor
©2022 Gary L. Quay
Cannon Beach is a favorite location on the Oregon Coast, and has been since I moved to Oregon over 30 years ago. I had my Sinar out there in July 2022, and took this picture near sunset.
Camera: Sinar Alpina
Lens: 90mm Nikon
Film: Famous Formats Atomic-X
One of the first places I explored when I moved to Oregon in 1991 was the Oregon Coast. I had never lived quite so close to an ocean before, and had the means to get there. My first time on the coast, I drove to Lincoln City, and marveled that the ocean was on the wrong side. It was the oddest thing. I was riving south, and the ocean was on my right. Whodathunkit? Being an east coaster, that took a few minutes to get used to. I do not have any pictures to show for those early days, but I soon found Cannon Beach to be my favorite spot, and the photography soon flowed.
I’m going to skip my 35mm work from the early to mid 1990’s, and go straight for my medium format work from the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. Remember that this is film. There is no tone mapping, or HDR. Silhouettes were par for the course.
© 1999 Gary L. Quay
This is the famous Haystack Rock at Canon Beach, Oregon. I took this picture back in 1999 with a camera without internal metering. I was fairly new at it then, so I am pleasantly surprised that it turned out.
Camera: Hasselblad 500C
Lens: 80mm Carl Zeiss
Film: Fuji Velvia
©2009 Gary L. Quay
A very large cruise ship was moving out to sea when I took this one from the deck behind a restaurant near the Astoria-Megler Bridge.
Camera: Hasselblad 500CM.
Lens: 50mm Carl Zeiss.
Film: Kodak Ektar 100
©2022 Gary L. Quay
I finally made it to Cape Foulweather during some, well, foul weather in early December to make some picures for a project I’m working on. I got chased back into the car by a downpour shortly after this picture.
Camera: Hasselblad 500CM
Lens: 80mm Zeiss Planar
Film: Ilford FP4+ developed in 510-Pyro
©2009 Gary L. Quay
Cannon Beach is a great place to take in a sunset or two. On this particular evening, I got two. The color grew and faded, but came back for a second round. The colors have not been enhanced. All I did in Photoshop was color correct to make it look like the proof sheet.
Camera: Hasselblad 500 CM
Lens: 250mm Carl Zeiss
Film: Kodak 100 UC
©2011 Gary L. Quay
I wanted to get a picture of this for quite a while before I actually did. I like the bony, dead trees that punctuate the flat flood plane. By the time I actudally got to do it, many of them were gone.
Camera: Sinar Alpina 4×5.
Lens: 90mm Nikkor with a green filter.
Film: Kodak Tri-X developed in Agfa Rodinal.
©2010 Gary L. Quay
The clouds started at the coast range, and stayed for the duration. I was looking for a soft image, which I mostly achieved. I perched the Deardorff on top of the hill that overlooks Haystack rock, and installed the 4×5 back. Many cars passed by, but I heard the word “Deardorff” coming out of two of them. One driver turned back and stopped by to say, “nice camera.” I like having a famous (in some circles) camera. When I finally got around to taking the picture, I discovered that the Alphax shutter on my 19″ Goerz lens no longer functioned. In fact, it was stuck open. So, I used my hat for a shutter, and took four exposures: Two at 25 seconds at f64, and two at 1/2 second at f11. This is one of the f64 images.
Camera: Deardorff 8×10 with 4×5 back.
Lens: 19″ Goerz APO Artar with yellow filter.
Film: Efke PL 25 developed in Kodak D76.
©2000 Gary L. Quay
This image’s name is wrong. It’s actually nearer to Lincoln City, but them’s the breaks. It is just off of Hwy 101 on the Oregon coast. One of the telltale aspects of classic film shots is the silhouette.
Camera: Hasselblad 500 CM
Lens: 80mm Carl Zeiss
Film: Fuji Velvia.
©2000 Gary L. Quay
I’ve been to Florence, Oregon once. It was in 2000. I drove down there on a lark, and took some pictiures of this bridge, and I went to Coos Bay to take pictures of the dunes. I had only one lens for my Hasselblad at the time, so I made the best of it.
Camera: Hasselblad 500CM
Lens: 80mm Zeiss Planar
Film: Ilford FP4+
As the years went by, and fate made me hold my nose, and buy a digital camera, I soon found myself at the Oregon Coast with a Nikon D810, and an assortment of new and vintage lenses.
©2022 Gary L. Quay
It is not possible to get tired of this view at sunset. Cannon Beach with its famous and formidable and rock formation is one of the best places on the West Coast to drink in the last rays of sunlight before hitting a local restaurant for a bite and a brew. I first traveled there in 1992, after moving to Portland from Pennsylvania, and instantly fell in love with Oregon’s best coastal town.
Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: 28mm Zeiss Distagon ZF2
©2020 Gary L. Quay
I had the Lensbaby out for a spin Asotria with a friend from Salem in September 2020 for our yearly photo excursion. He always gets me thinking differently about composition. The Lansbaby sees the world a little differently than I’m used to, but that’s part of the joy.
Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: Lensbaby Velvet 56.
©2019 Gary L. Quay
A southbound picture at Depoe Bay, Oregon. I took it for a project for my food blog, which was about the best clam chowders of the northern Oregon Coast.
Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: 24-85mm Nikon
©2024 Gary L. Quay
I’m a big fan of bridges and other massive chunks of infrastructure like tunnels and trains. The Astoria-Megler Bridge is one of my favorites. I always like a bridge with a superlative attached, such as, oldest, longest, first, only – that sort of thing. Completed in 1966, and spanning 4 miles of river, this is the longest continuous truss bridge n North America.
Camera: Hasselblad Flexbody
Lens: 50mm Zeiss Distagon
Media: Hasselblad CFV 100C Digital Back
©2020 Gary L. Quay
Don’t be fooled into thinking that I have abandoned film. Oh, no. I’m still at it, and have a new darkroom.
I had a little trouble with this negative. One of the things I am doing is trying to get my film developing technique down to a science. When I have difficulties, and it can be traced to something I am doing, I do it differently. This negative has a slightly uneven sky. I think that’s due to the developing tray I was using. I’m not using it anymore. Still, I like the picture, and that’s why I present it here.
Camera: Deardorff 8×10
Lens: 165mm Schneider Angulon
Film: Bergger Panchro 400 developed in Eco-Pro Film Developer.
©2021 Gary L. Quay
Astoria has been one of the places I have turned to lately. There is so much history there, and so much weather.
Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: 150-600mm Tamron
©2021 Gary L. Quay
I saw these ships out on the river as I was leaving to go home. I stopped, and took some pictures, and two young women strolled up and asked about what the pylons were there for. I explained that they are the remains of canneries that used to line the river at Astoria. Then they asked about my photography. They seemed very pleasant to talk to, and showed a genuine interest in what I was doing. As they were about to continue on their way, one of them said, “Oh, and that’s a nice sunset.”
I turned to the west to see the beginnings of what turned out to be a spectacular sunset. The rest is history, and is just above this picture.
Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: Vintage 85mm Nikkor
©2022 Gary L. Quay
Cannon Beach is a favorite location on the Oregon Coast, and has been since I moved to Oregon over 30 years ago. I had my Sinar out there in July 2022, and took this picture near sunset.
Camera: Sinar Alpina
Lens: 90mm Nikon
Film: Famous Formats Atomic-X
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