Building My New Darkroom
It’s been 5 years since I packed up my last darkroom. My life as a photographer revolved around having a darkroom well into the digital age. I remember the moment that I started tearing apart the sink that I had...
Shifting Sands in the Hourglass
When I started my photography blog in 2012, I had intended it to be in the vein of Ansel Adams’ many books of technical explanations of how he made his photographs. I intended to discuss the ways of the camera...
Of Golden Grasses and Windmills
Windmills, Maryhill, WashingtonWhat in the Sam Hill is going on at Maryhill?Maryhill, Washington, sits on the northern banks of the Columbia River, and is the eastern boarder of the Columbia Gorge on the Washington side. Named after Sam Hill’s wife,...
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. ...
Time Management in the Age of Smart Phones
I have been stuck with a dilemma for the past few years, which is, simply put, how to put the smart phone down, and concentrate on something meaningful. I post pictures to Flickr, Facebook, and Instagram, and I get the...
New Site Up and Running Despite Difficulties
Abandoned House Near Dufur, OregonThe Covid-19 pandemic has given me a bit more time at home to contemplate getting my site off the ground. I really just wanted to start posting to my blog again, so I launched before it...
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 7 sections:...
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...
A Hard Decision
Photography memorial time. I made a decision last week. It’s been 3 and a half years since I tore down my darkroom in order to sell my Portland house, so that we could move to Hood River. The current...
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:...