Rock Fest Photos
12,000 people attended RockFest XXIV at the Washington County Fairgrounds Saturday…. And here’s what I saw. I’ll post/write more tomorrow when I have time, but here are a few of my favorite photos of the day. I focused on fans mostly, because I find them fascinating, but the bands where phenomenal.
LPGA
Last weekend I shot the LPGA golf tournament at Pumpkin Ridge. I fallowed Ai Miyazato, mostly, because she was in the best position to win, and she did. Here are a few of my favorite images.
Available Light
For the longest time I’ve considered myself an “available light” photographer. In the world of photography, this basically refers to photographers who prefer naturalistic and ambient light when shooting (not using flash). Being an available light photographer has really helped me develop my style, but I think it’s time to move forward with my photography and start controlling my [...]
Sunset Park – Brooklyn NYC
Anna I took a trip out to NYC and stayed with some friends for about a week recently and I did a little street shooting. I managed to pickup a nice waist-level viewfinder for my Mamiya, and a 55mm lens from the big B&H mega camera store and shot 10 rolls of Kodak 125 PX [...]
Dusting off the Holga
Anna and I took a trip to the beach with our friends Brent and Hallie, so I dusted off the old Holga, dropped in a roll of 120 color film, and crossed my fingers. You just never know what you’re going to get when you shoot with a Holga. And yea, that’s an iPod strapped [...]
Timothy lake in the Pre-Season
My buddy Rob and I took a backpacking trip up to Timothy Lake a few weeks ago before it officially opened for the season. We hit some snow on the road up, parked the car, and hiked in. Here’s a photo I took at the lake’s edge around 2am. The temp got down in the [...]
Looking through Olympus
I took my dad’s old Olympus OM2 out of the closet and shot a roll of Tri-X B&W film the other day… Here’s a selection from the roll of 36.
Ducati Track day at PIR
My brother came down to Portland with his Ducati 848, so I grabbed a 400mm f2.8 super telephoto lens and trekked out to the track to take in the action.
April 26th
There is something absolutely tragic, and devastatingly beautiful about this man and this woman.
Shrimp
I got a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 “point-&-shoot” for my birthday this past Christmas and I finally got around to downloading some of the pictures off the card. It’s amazing how many 10mp RAW images fit on a 16gb SD card. I shot this last month at the ABC Seafood Market on Powell, the best and [...]
Faces and Places | More Portland Portraits
I got another roll of film back today with a few So-Fo-Po (South Foster Powell) images for my Faces and Places (PDX Portraits) on it.
Visual Rhetoric Gallery Show Now Open at Everyday Wine Bar
I would like to invite you to Everyday Wine Bar on Alberta, this Wednesday March 31st at 7 o’clock for the opening of my photography show, Visual Rhetoric: A collection of diptych images that focus on spacial relationships between people and environments. Thank you so much for your support. Anna and I hope to see [...]
Photos from Las Vegas, 120 Film (Wedding Portrait Photographers International)
Okay boys and girls, I got anther couple of rolls of 120 film back from the lab today. I shot two rolls of Kodak Portra Neutral Color 160, and a roll of Kodak T-Max 100 while I was in Vegas for the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International convention. I focused mainly on out of the [...]
Lawrence Halprin Landscapes | Birds and blooms
A few photos from today’s trip out to shoot a few Lawrence Halprin Park inspired photographs. Most of the trees are still barren, but a few on the south end of the park sequence where in full pink bloom, so I took full advantage. The smell was absolutely devastating. I photographed a few children jumping [...]
Plywood
I traveled down to Lyons, Oregon with a small crew to work on a film project at a plywood mill with an amazing director/DP Lionel Coleman (www.lionelcoleman.com). I assisted camera and worked the lights for the day while Lionel shot video on the Canon 5DMii. It was a real experience shooting inside an operating saw [...]
More PDX Portraits, Mamiya 645
I shot a few more portraits of average ordinary Portlanders. I’m trying to get a mix of people that really shows the diversity within the city by getting close to people we might otherwise not notice. I am always so fascinated by the people I meet when I walk the streets of Portland, especially when [...]
Halprin Landscapes – Medium Format
I shot a few Halprin landscape photos with my wide angle medium format camera to try and obtain a look more natural than the digital 5DMii images. My Mamiya doesn’t have a light meter, so all of the subsequent photos where taken with the use of a hand-held light meter. I’ll be excited to see [...]
Personal Space – Medium Format
After I got my hands on my new Mamiya 645 medium format film camera, I shot a roll of 120 film. I simply walked around this fair city of Portland, Oregon asking people “may I take your portrait?” Some people said yes, and some people said no. I wasn’t sure what to expect from people, [...]
St. Johns after dark
I’ve been spending a lot of time working on a project with my new medium format Mamiya 645 film camera and thought I should take out the 5DMark II. I’ve had my eye on a few spots near St. Johns. Now the light today was nice, don’t get me wrong, but there’s something special about [...]
Bagby Hotsprings
I took a hike up to Bagby Hot Springs for the first time in years with Anna and my friend Rob and his wife. I was so awestruck I didn’t do a lot of photography, but here are a few shots from the trip. I’m planning to go back up very soon to shoot some [...]
Snowshoeing the East Fork Trail
Anna and I got up extra early today and drove out to the East side of Mt. Hood to hike the East Fork River. We rented some awesome snowshoes from REI, packed a lunch, and off we went. Here are a few photo from the day’s excusion. And I encourage anyone who hasn’t ever done [...]
Oaks Park, Skate
It was another rainy dreary gray Sunday in Portland today, so I took a trip down to Oaks Park to see what I could see. I’ve been thinking about producing a series on roller skating. It’s fascinating to me how popular this past-time is here in Portland, and I’m sure it has niche groups all [...]
Narrows photo published in USA Today
One of my many travel photographs of the Zion Narrows trail in Zion National Park was picked up by USA Today this week and featured in their travel section. A traveling with the Stars Q and A with Annie Wersching. You can see the full article at USAtoday.com if you’re so inclined. Zion National Park [...]
Best of 2009, The Spectrum
The Spectrum newspaper, where I worked for a few years as a staff photographer, posted a “best of” photo gallery to show off my images from 2009. I left that paper back in the early 2009, but I’m more an happy with the selection of images from the first few months of the year, edited [...]