Bokeh or Bust
Featured image: Dahlia in full flame-on at Draper Girls Farm in Parkdale, Oregon. I added a little Photoshop PFM to enhance. Within the last few years, I have begun learning the ins and outs of macro photography. I don’t have...
The Historic Columbia River Highway
The Old Gorge Highway is still closed between Bridal Veil and Ainsworth due the aftermath of the Eagle Creek fire. It’s been a heartbreaking 9 months since the fire started. Parenthetically, a small part of the fire re-ignted earlier this...
Terra Incognito
I have been looking to branch out into new territory both in location and subject matter, and in technique. After I took the plunge into digital photography, I continued on the path I set for my film photography, which was...
Hope Springs Eternal in the Columbia Gorge
Driving through the Columbia Gorge, as I do back and forth to work every weekday could have a tendency to make the spectacular into the mundane. I think about this sometimes when the light isn’t quite right, and I decline...
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...
Eagle Creek Fire, September 2017
There are once-in-a-lifetime events that define the way we see the world. Some of these are world changing. Some are regional. Some are good, and some are bad. September 2017 will be a watershed for the remainder of the...
Hood River
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...
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...
Infrared Church, Colton NY
This is from my East Coast trip last Spring. I have a few more rolls of my favorite film, Konica IR 750, which was discontinued in 2006, in my freezer. I shot this roll over nearly a year, choosing each...