For about a year now I’ve been going to PDX (Portland) Strobist meet ups. It’s a local photography group that was started by the amazing Jeff Mawer as a way to learn off the camera flash photography and skills taught by the website Strobist.com. We have about 500 members now and about once a month...
For Finn’s birthday we went to the Oregon Zoo with some family and I thought it was the perfect opportunity to shoot some film. Almost all were shot with my Nikon F100 except for the square ones which were with my Holga 120N . Not my finest work and I’m still getting the hang of the whole process. Regardless,...
Taken at the Wooden Shoe Tulip Festival in Woodburn Oregon (which is just an hour south of Portland). I have to admit that it’s a little weird to use a dark sepia treatment to such a colorful setting. The photo just felt better to me with the focus being on the composition, lines, and the textures...
What? An application review on a photoblog? Sure, why not? I really tried to resist posting this but being a photographer, I just had to put up a review and pass this along. The application is Camera Bag and ever since I downloaded it I’ve been shooting a lot more with my iPhone camera. I...
Any one who knows me knows how much I love the Portland Trailblazers. It really started for me back in the late 80’s although my family has had season tickets since the start of the franchise. If you ask my wife my love of the team boarders on obsession as evidenced by the fact that I feel the...
Welcome to the newest home of our blog! There were a few long nights working in CSS and with HTML, and there will still be some minor tweaks, but overall, this is it. Feel free to look around at some of the new features, including buttons at the bottom of each post that let you...
I have a funny story for you: close to a year ago I put my Tivo up on craigslist. Almost immediately I received an email that said some guy that lived out in Hillsboro would like to buy it from me. The guy came, paid and picked it up. Normal craigslist transaction, no big whoop....
