Still Making Due
Starvation Creek Falls, October 2016 I’ve been without a darkroom for over a year and a half. My attempt to carve one out of a spare bedroom was foiled by carpet. Gaia and I don’t consider this to be our...
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...
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...
Somewhere in Utah # 2
I took this picture somewhere in Utah on a whirlwind trip to PA and back.Camera: Hasselblad 500CMLens: 50mm Carl Zeiss.Film: Ilford HP5+ developed in Ilfotec HC. Why I love my Hasselblad. That is all.
Angel’s Rest Trail
Last Wednesday I attempted a hike to Angel’s Rest, which is a viewpoint high on a bluff in the Columbia Gorge in Oregon. It was a 90 degree day, and I had been out taking pictures along the Old Columbia...
The Columbia Gorge, October 2012
My favorite time in the Columbia Gorge is the fall. The leaves turn there slightly before they do in Portland, and on the rare day when the rain lets up, I’m out there with one of my cameras. This year,...