Lighting the Bee
One of my assignments last week was to photograph Taggart Siegel, a local documentary film director who recently finished his film “Queen of the Sun.” Taggart is most known for his film “The Real Dirt on Farmer John,” and his new film is premiering at the Hollywood Theater Sept. 17. I photographed Taggart with his daughter in [...]
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.
Kyron Q&A, minus the Q
Tuesday, July 28, 2010 – The big news of the day was the increase in the reward for information in the disappearance of 7-year-old Kyron Horman to $50,000. Kyron’s mother, Desiree Young, offered a tearful plea for her child’s return, and Multnomah County Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Tim Moore updated TV, radio, and print journalists with some statistics [...]
Foot Bag feature hunt
I was out on the town in search of sunbathing Portlanders for a story on Vitamin D, what I like to call “vitamin sunshine.” I ended up at my old stomping grounds, the Ira Keller Fountain. There was some really amazing hacky-sack going on. Not exactly the right photo for the story, but I never [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Portland’s first snow, video
We got our first snow of the year, Dec. 29th, so I put together a short video on my Canon 5DMii. Scroll down to see some photos from the day as well.
Halprin Landscapes in the snow
Portland was surprised with some snow today. I was on a hike with Anna on the Oaks Bottom trail when the first flakes hit the ground, Then we took a trip into downtown to shoot some Halprin landscapes. I shot for a while as the snow fell, and decided to come back after dark and [...]
The Fear of Battle
While most people are Christmas shopping or watching the clock count down to their holiday vacation, some young boys are doing battle. Too young for the rank and file combat of modern war, but plenty old enough to battle with their dexterity among like-minded youth on the streets of PDX. I found them on 5th, [...]
Playing With Time
I’ve been thinking about experimenting with time lapse video lately so I started doing some research. The consensus is that time-lapse is best done with a still camera, rather than a video camera, because of the 35mm depth of field and much higher resolution. The tool for the job, a tripod and the Canon TC-80N3 [...]
Blazers v. Nets
I shot the Blazers game Wednesday as they faced off with the 0-14 New Jersey Nets. Here are a few selects from the game. My favorite… The fans with front row seats. You can see the rest of my photos from the game on my photoshleter page HERE.
Seeing surprises
I was driving through a massive rain storm the other day in Portland and realized that rain is not a good reason to leave my camera at home. I framed a few amazing photos in my minds eye, as interesting scenes unfolded in front of me due to the crazy weather. A car stuck in [...]
Blazers 96 over San Antonio (84)
I shot the Blazers at home tonight in the Rose Garden, which I will blog about at length soon. But for all you fans out there I’ll share a couple of my fav’s from the game.
Halprin Panoramics, and a bowl of noodles.
I’ll start off today with an interesting photo of a man, eating a bowl of noodles alone in a chinese restaurant. I was walking from my car over to Harrison Street and found myself drawn toward this scene. I’m often captivated by events that invoke a sense of quiet isolation among a busy city environment. [...]