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Travel
May seems to be travel time for me. Here are a few shots from last weekend’s flight to Pittsburgh via Dallas. I’ll post a few pictures from Pennsylvania later, but now I have to get ready for this weekend’s trip to California.
East of Omaha
One of the benefits to following this blog is getting the inside scoop on new projects I’m working on. OK, that may not be a benefit, but you get it anyway. So today I’m presenting a new personal project I’ve been working on for a few weeks, called East of Omaha (which would be somewhere [...]
Andrea Nakayama
Andrea Nakayama is a nutritionist I photographed recently for a newspaper. She recommends a diet based on whole foods, including things like yoghurt, nuts, kimchi and fruit, and eliminating refined sugar, dairy and gluten. We made some portraits of her on that theme in her kitchen—she even recruited her son Gilbert for one of the [...]
Newberry House
One of the most interesting assignments I received recently was to photograph Carl VanderZanden and his home. VanderZanden is a pretty interesting guy in his own right. For instance, he spends a lot of his time living and working in the less-traveled parts of Africa, most recently Madagascar. However, the especially unusual thing is his [...]
Photographing a photographer
A few weeks ago I was put in the unusual position of photographing a photographer. I’m pretty sure I’ve never done that before, and I have to admit that when I arrived at the assignment I was feeling a bit self-conscious. However, my subject turned out to be a totally down-to-earth, cool guy and besides, does [...]
Good things
Some more table-top photography, this time some things I found around the house: our orchid, a fine Oregon Pinot noir, and an angel my grandmother made of clay. I started shooting on the white background, like the portfolio I photographed for Sharon a couple weeks ago, then decided it might look better on black. The [...]
Wapato Jail/Kelley Point Park
Here are a few more photos from a geocaching expedition to Kelley Point Park back in February that I forgot about until now. Since we’ve found most of the caches at Kelley Point Park before, we stopped en route to look for a couple more around the Wapato Jail. I’d heard much about the jail [...]
Warrior Rock Lighthouse
A couple of weeks ago, it was such a nice sunny day Perrie and I abandoned the backup of housework and homework and headed out to Sauvie Island for walk and some geocaching. It was a pretty arbitrary choice, but it turned out to be perfect. After driving to the very end of the road [...]
Angel’s Share
I rarely do any product photography, but when a friend who is studying graphic design asked me to photograph her portfolio, I said “of course!” I brought my equipment over to Sharon Cody’s house last week, set up on her kitchen table and we shot various design projects she’d worked on. The first, shown here, [...]
Yet another Saturday morning in the Pearl District
A few weeks ago, Perrie made her annual pilgrimage to the tax man, affording me the better part of an hour to walk around Portland’s Pearl District with my camera. Two years ago, the weather was gorgeous; last year, not so much. This year, it was supposed to be nasty but turned out just fine. [...]
Jim Tessier’s can art
When you live and work on Johnston Atoll, a 1-square mile island smack-dab in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, there isn’t much to do when the working day is done. For a non-drinker like Jim Tessier, even less. So he started making models from discarded beverage cans. Now 75 and living north of Portland, [...]
Carl Grimm
At some point, every kid dreams about the kind of job he or she will have when they grow up. Firefighter, doctor, and ballet dancer are common aspirations. I’m fairly certain that no kid ever planned to be a Natural Gardening and Toxics Reduction Planner—and yet, that’s what Carl Grimm became. Among other things, his [...]