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...
Social Distancing While Photographing Oregon
Introverts have no trouble social distancing. It’s the reverse of that which tends to make us uneasy. Still, while we shelter at home, cringing every Sunday when our iPhones notify us of the amount of our lives we have wasted...
Creativity in Photo Editing
For a very long time, I refused to do anything in Photoshop that I couldn’t replicate in the darkroom. The reason for this was that I intended to sell all of my images from darkroom prints, including the color pictures. ...
Image Gallery
Image Gallery I have been photographing Oregon for 30 years, so naturally I have a large backlog of images. Until recently, I used only film. Digital photography is still relatively new to me. My gallery is divided into sections: My...
Shooting Fish in a Barrel
As the morning sun broke through the clouds, and the wind stopped stripping the bark from trees (it was making such a racket that I thought I heard thunder), I ventured out into the wiles of the eastern Columbia Gorge...
The Columbia Gorge Trails are Opening!
At the end of November, the Historic Columbia River Highway in Oregon has finally opened between Bridal Veil and Ainsworth State Park. It was the last segment to open after its closure during the Eagle Creek Fire. The HCRH was...
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.
Digital Darkroom and 8×10 film.
Since I lost my darkroom over 3 years ago, I haven’t been able to produce any work from my 8×10 negatives, but I finally bought an Epson V800 scanner, which is capable of scanning 8×10 film. I scanned 2 negatives:...
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...
The Eastern Columbia Gorge and the Oregon / Washington Rain Shadow
I’ve been falling in love with the eastern Columbia Gorge for about a decade, so one would think that the falling would be done by now. I grew up in the deciduous forests of central Pennsylvania, where summers were lush,...