There is nothing like fall light in Portland for photographing senior portraits. It’s warm, low, and spectacular. Combine beautiful sunlight with a beautiful young lady with purple hair, and you have one fantastic senior portrait photography session! It was 45 degrees at Peninsula Park in NE Portland, where we took Casey’s senior photos, but...
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Five years ago, I had the privilege of photographing the wedding of Jason and Judy Pearce. I’d known Jason from the musical group he was part of, Rescue, whom I’d photographed for one of their albums. Jason was marrying this beautiful woman, Judy, and at the same time inheriting three beautiful children. Well, believe it...
Kelsey lives in Woodland and goes to Woodland High School. She was telling me that she didn’t want the same standard senior portrait photographs that all her friends have, so she called me. She wanted someone who approached high school senior portraits more as an artist. I think I did her proud by creating some...
The longer I’m around this planet, the more opportunities I have to discover that it really is a small world. I’ve photographed students at DaVinci Middle School, here in Portland, since about 2001. I began there working on my fine arts thesis project, working with several teachers and tons of students, observing, photographing, and writing. ...
Curator Leo Michelson and gallery owner Charles Froelick called me up last year with an intriguing idea. They were pairing up 17 painters with 17 photographers, asking them to create a portrait of one another. The resulting show is titled Two of a Kind. I was paired with local painter Shanon Playford, whose beautiful, often...
If you’ve watched or read the news this past week, pretty much anywhere in the country, you will have heard the story of the 3 lost climbers on Mt Hood. Luke Gullberg, Anthony Vietti, and Katie Nolan went missing after a climb on Mt Hood on Friday, December 11. Luke’s body was found Saturday, having...
Some assignments make me feel older. I knew Lauralee’s parents when they were in high school–and I was, too. I remember her brother in a carseat, Lauralee as a toddler. Such a sweet child; I photographed her numerous times when she was younger. One of those images went into an artist’s portfolio that was collected...