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Adam Robins, a friend and fellow photographer, and I made it to the top of the Angel’s Rest trail today. I didn’t take as much gear, and I took more water. The trail was shrouded in mist, and a light […]
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Last Wednesday I attempted a hike to Angel’s Rest, which is a viewpoint high on a bluff in the Columbia Gorge in Oregon. It was a 90 degree day, and I had been out taking pictures along the Old Columbia […]
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Gaia and I went to Pendleton, Oregon in March 2013 on a well deserved vacation. It was entirely too windy to get out my 8x10 camera, but I could hand hold my Speed Graphic if I kept the shutter speed [...]
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November 2008. It's 2:00 AM. I'm on the Burnside Bridge in Portland, Oregon. I have my Deardorff set up to photograph the city and it's picturesque waterfront. It's cold. I'm alone very near a bad part of town. The occasional [...]
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Chanticleer Point, November 2012 I took this picture on Tuesday, November 14, 2012 from Chanticleer Point in the Columbia Gorge. For once, the clouds were cooperating. So many times here in NW oregon, we have either total overcast, or blank, [...]
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This is from my new (very old) 5x7 Camera City View (by the Seneca Camera Co. of Rochester NY). The camera was made around 1906, but is on remarkably good shape. I will post a picture of the camera soon. [...]
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The SK Grimes lens is the one on the upper right. It doesn't look like much, but the focal length is 760mm. On an 8x10 camera it requires almost a yard of bellows draw. I refer to it as "SK [...]
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Traveling with large format cameras is a challenge these days. All the scanners, X-ray machines, and TSA employees scratching their heads, and asking, "What is this?" repeatedly while dismantling my carefully packed camera bag. I had to mail my film [...]
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My favorite time in the Columbia Gorge is the fall. The leaves turn there slightly before they do in Portland, and on the rare day when the rain lets up, I'm out there with one of my cameras. This year, [...]
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