Portland Bridges
Portland Bridges Portland has some of the best bridges in the world. Here’s some of the pictures I’ve taken of them over the years. Portland Across the Willamette River ©2009 Gary L. Quay Another shot of my favorite Bridge in...
Portland, Oregon
Portland. What can one say about Portland? Many things, of course. First, and foremost, it’s a beautiful city, especially when viewing downtown from across the Willamette River at night when the water is calm, and reflects the city lights like...
More from the Darkroom Saga
The new darkroom is small, so I’m setting it up to work small, even when developing large format. I bought myself new daylight developing tanks with reels that work with both 5×7 and 8×10, plus a smaller tank for 4×5....
Opening of the Locations Gallery
I started a new gallery on the main site. It’s called “Locations”. I will be exploring various places that I have concentrated on as a photographer in the last 30 years. These range from the Oregon Coast to Hood River...
Hood River
Hood River I lived in Hood River, Oregon from 2015 to 2019. Photographically, it was the high water mark for me, simply due to the sheer volume of opportunities to take astounding pictures. In this gallery, I will display pictures...
Terra Incogito
Terra Incognito Terra Incognito is the name I jokingly give to the wide open spaces between towns, especially to places that I have never been able to relocate after I took my first pictures there. Mapmakers used the term (but...
The Oregon Coast
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...
Locations
A sense of place, the essence of the area where one is, to landscape photographers is the Holy Grail. These galleries cover mainly Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, but I recently added a new gallery for the East Coast. Click...
Trees
Trees almost always show up in my landscapes, but they are rarely the focus. I have even taken pictures where the space between them was the focus, like in the picture below. Off Walker Farm Road, September 2011There have been...
Lens, Lens Baby
Those of us old enough remember the song from the 80’s that begins with the phrase “Ice, ice baby.” Yes that was Vanilla Ice, a rapper whose fall mirrored his rise in suddenness, and left us with one of the...