I am a professional photographer from Fairview, Oregon, specializing in landscape, architecture, and sometimes quirky imagery, working in both film and digital formats. I bought my first “real” camera–a Minolta XG-1–in 1983 while serving in the Army in Germany, Returning...
West Linn Power at Willamette Falls, Oregon This is the West Linn paper plant as seen from across the Willamette River in 2010. I took this picture with a large format camera and lens combination that needs to have the...
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.
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...
4×5 film image.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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