Picture Post: More From the New Scanner.
The Oregon Coast as seen from Cannon Beach.There’s nothing like a large negative. Technical data:Oregon Coast, Cannon BeachCamera: Deardorff 8×10Lens: 300mm Nikkor-WFilm: Ilford HP5+ Developed in Ilfotec HC.
New Film Scanner!
I finally bought a scanner that can handle an 8×10 negative. Here’s the first scan: Cedar Creek Grist Mill, 8×10 Color I’m excited about the possibilities. Since the demise of my darkroom, 8×10 film has been mostly pie in the...
Picture Post: “Windmills, Maryhill, Washington.”
4×5 film image.
Flickr and the Art of Image Maintenance
When I first started posting my photos on Flickr in 2008, I had no idea what I was doing. I was a darkroom photographer trying to display my images on the internet with a race car computer and a horse-and-buggy...
Digital Hating Hipster.
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...
The Rainshadow
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...
From the Vaults # 2
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...
From the Vaults
The friend who posed for this picture informed me that it was 15 years ago. East Berlin I was new to medium format, and to handheld meters, but I nailed the exposure on Kodak Tech Pan. I perched my tripod...
Light
A photographer is always moving toward the light, and the light is always moving away from the photographer. Everything is fleeting. To capture a single moment in time and location before it passes forever is truly a blessing. Ruthton...
Living in the Columbia Gorge.
Gaia and I are looking to buy, or build, a house in the place where I do most of my photography: the Columbia Gorge. We want a spot on the dryer side, past Hood Rivet, or any place that has...