Late Summer Afternoon

A summer's day, in hot pastels. Shot with the Canon G10. When the light warms and slants, I love shooting textured surfaces and street scenes straight on a Hopperesque feel.

WATCH THAT SPACE

A new, exciting (or at least perhaps engaging), slight demented adventure begins tomorrow on Splattworks, splattsights companion blog. Don't change the channel....

Portland Dawn

Sorry I've neglected this poor blog for so long. The best-laid plans, and so on.

The above was shot with a Canon G10, an early morning struggle between and cloud and clear that turned bronze as the sun rose. Just being in the right place at the right time.

I can feel the photo bug chewing at me. A bad sign....

Summer in the Pearl District

A little love note to Portland...

...through my photographs.

Diggin' the Blues

From the annual Portland Waterfront Blues Festival. Shot on Fuji Velvia (honest to God slide film).

New Orleans Kids

When I lived in New Orleans, I didn't take many pictures, which I now regret. Life was just so crazy and surreal that it was engaging enough to live it, much less document it. But I did shoot a couple rolls, and, a number of years later, a friend of mine ran across some negatives I'd sent her to develop. She sent them back to me, and this is one of the shots. I was wandering around the Garden District, if I remember right, and they kids insisted I take their picture. Who was I to argue? This was long before Katrina, and those kids are probably adults now. I wonder where they are and what they're doing. I wonder if they're still alive. They certainly were on a humid day in 1988.

As I only had one camera when I lived there, and I know the film type from the negatives, this was shot with a Canon AT-1 on Kodak Tri-X. Which is about as old school as it gets.