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These days, square pictures are all the rage on Instagram, and Facebook, but they certainly did not start there. There have been a variety of square format cameras from Polaroids to Mamiyas, going back many decades. I even had a […]
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When I started my photography blog in 2012, I had intended it to be in the vein of Ansel Adams’ many books of technical explanations of how he made his photographs. I intended to discuss the ways of the camera […]
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I’m rewriting a post that I wrote a few years back. I was short on time when I wrote the original, so I thought I needed to give the subject more attention. So, here goes… I have written about Mosier, […]
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What in the Sam Hill is going on at Maryhill? Maryhill, Washington, sits on the northern banks of the Columbia River, and is the eastern boarder of the Columbia Gorge on the Washington side. Named after Sam Hill’s wife, it […]
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My introduction to Oregon was in the driver’s seat of a 1981 Ford F150 with 220,000 miles on it at the end of my trek westward from Pennsylvania inSeptember of 1991. I had my records, camera and clothing in the […]
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I took the above picture in 2012 on a sheet of 8×10 color film. I enjoyed it a lot. It’s the view from the Rowena Crest Overlook in the Columbia Gorge, Oregon. It’s a favorite spot of mine to take […]
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For a very long time, I refused to do anything in Photoshop that I couldn’t replicate in the darkroom. The reason for this was that I intended to sell all of my images from darkroom prints, including the color pictures. […]
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Well, I’m missing wildflower season in the Columbia Gorge. The Shelter in Place order in the state of Oregon due to the pandemic is keeping me from my favorite places to be in the Spring. So, now what? Walkies in […]
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There is a tiny Columbia Gorge town about six miles east from Hood River, Oregon, that has become my favorite spot for photography, based mainly on the ruggedness of the scenery, and the bony white oaks that punctuate the landscape. […]
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In 2011 I finally got off of the night shift. The only downside to this was that I was not going to be doing as much night photography. I had been working on an exhibit called, well… The Night Shift. […]