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There is a smaller gorge within the Cokumbia Gorge called the Oneonta Gorge. It’s more of a slot canyon, but we’ll stick with “gorge” for now. I’ll start by saying that I have no pictures of it. Here’s why. The […]
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Well, the new house in Hood River is very efficient, but not conducive to containing a production darkroom. I set up the third bedroom with the D5XL enlarger, and some of the framing equipment, but it’s carpeted, so all of […]
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Post edit 12/24/24: I moved to Hood River in 2015, but moved back to the Portland area in 2019. Hood River Hotel The move is complete, yet the boxes still abound. The darkroom will be built, but not any time [...]
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The house is sold. Part of the selling process was the Dismantling of the Darkroom. It was a very sad day. I tore apart the 7' sink that I built, tore down the shelves, painted the walls white, and installed [...]
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Black is turning to white. My darkroom since 2005 is turning back into a bedroom. We're getting ready to move into the Columbia Gorge, so I'm getting the Portland house ready for sale. The saddest part of this tearing down [...]
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I received a comment on my blog recently that stated simply, and in its entirety, "You're a digital hating hipster." Well, I wasn't even hip when I was the right age for it, but, more to the point, I don't [...]
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One of my favorite places for photography these days is the eastern Columbia Gorge. It’s really the “old west.” Once you pass Hood River going east, the landscape changes from the pine-encrusted rainforest west of the Cascades to the arid […]
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This is from my East Coast trip last Spring. I have a few more rolls of my favorite film, Konica IR 750, which was discontinued in 2006, in my freezer. I shot this roll over nearly a year, choosing each […]
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One of my best-selling photographs. Caboose! ©2007 Gary L. Quay I was out with Gaia, with my newly acquired 50mm Carl Zeiss lens and my Hasselblad. I wanted to get pictures of this caboose, and the weather was cooperating. I […]
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The friend who posed for this picture informed me that it was 15 years ago. I was new to medium format, and to handheld meters, but I nailed the exposure on Kodak Tech Pan. I perched my tripod on a […]