Portland. What can one say about Portland? Many things, of course. First, and foremost, it’s a beautiful city, especially when viewing downtown from across the Willamette River at night when the water is calm, and reflects the city lights like...
The Night Shift “The Night Shift” was a multi-year project that ended in 2011 when I finally got off of the graveyard shift at work. The foundational work was originally intended to run from 2008 to 2009, but I was...
The new darkroom is small, so I’m setting it up to work small, even when developing large format. I bought myself new daylight developing tanks with reels that work with both 5×7 and 8×10, plus a smaller tank for 4×5....
Hood River I lived in Hood River, Oregon from 2015 to 2019. Photographically, it was the high water mark for me, simply due to the sheer volume of opportunities to take astounding pictures. In this gallery, I will display pictures...
One of the first places I explored when I moved to Oregon in 1991 was the Oregon Coast. I had never lived quite so close to an ocean before, and had the means to get there. My first time on...
The Columbia Gorge The Columbia Gorge was what lit this east coast lad’s soul on fire in the early 1990’s. After moving to Oregon in 1991, I first picked up my old Minolta XG-1 after seeing the place the first...
As many of you know, I have concentrated on Oregon’s dry side for quite a while, preferring the dusty farming areas like Wasco and Sherman Counties to the mossy, drenched rainforests west of the Cascades. Having moved back to the...
Trees almost always show up in my landscapes, but they are rarely the focus. I have even taken pictures where the space between them was the focus, like in the picture below. Off Walker Farm Road, September 2011There have been...
I am, above all, a lover of all things warm (with the exception of ice cream and martinis). As such, getting out in the winter to take pictures is a labor of loathing. I’m not the kind of photographer who...
Digital Infrared Infrared film has long been a favorite of mine. It has also become more scarce over the years. There are still infrared films on the market, most notably Ilford SFX and Rollei IR 400, and I have used...