Drive By Shooting

Returning from Minnesota cruising down I-84 at 70 mph I was able to capture this image through the passenger side window.

Reflections of Eastern Washington

The Port of Garfield along the Snake River

Field Art

Spring in Eastern Washington State

Contract Work

Most of my photographic work relates to both artistic creation, graphic arts and realism. Occasionally I'm asked by a friend or professional associate to do some contract work.
These photos are a case in point after my doctor Maggie Yu opened her new office. She needed some patient exam photos for her new ads and marketing literature. I photographed both staff and patients. As we reviewed the patient photos we decided that photos of these young girls conveyed the image she wanted.

Our Little Gallery

The multifaceted five artists here in the Sherwood neighborhood, have opened up a small, simple but interesting gallery in Old Town Sherwood. I work Sundays. On one of those Sundays, a nice couple and their puppy drove up in this antique Ford. Of course I couldn't pass this photo-op. I thought it would be fun to play with pixels and give it an artistic look while I was at it.

Hood River to White Salmon Bridge

A vector graphic rendering of the bridge crossing the Columbia from Oregon to Washington.

The Allure of Monochrome

Black and white, monochrome prints have always been considered a more formal photographic presentation. The classical photographers or fathers of photography all captured images in monochrome. Well duh, they didn't have color film. If they had I'm sure we would have seen Ansil Adams first works in color... maybe not.
There is that "thing" about black and white prints however. Words don't seem to allow me to describe that thing right now.

PDX Vietnam Memorial

As a Vietnam veteran, I sometimes visit the Vietnam Memorial here in Portland. Typically people visit on bright sunny days. On this day, it was foggy with a bit of rain. Moody to say the least. I enhanced this mood in post process. One of my larger prints.

Motion on Motion

I often break rules when photographing people. People are always in motion in some way. Unless your are not of the living of course. Setting low ISO numbers and slow shutter speeds without a tripod mount is not the formula for good photograpy. So what I say. This is a pan, stop, pan shot. The smile is a constant.

Primary Colors

Just an interesting composition I saw at the Petrified Forest in Arizona.

Monument Valley, Utah

One of many red mesas I photographed at sunset in the valley.

Glen Canyon

At high altitude and cold temperatures, the condensate created by the waste stacks and cooling towers is out of place in the high desert.

The Table

One of my more recent prints from a field shoot in Arizona.

Graphic Creation Steps

This is an example of a graphic I created for a web site I support. I photographed an old "bone shaker" bicycle while I was down in Prescott Arizona last year and pulled out a rough silhouette of the bike. Layering the bike on a transparent layer allowed me to create just about any graphic I want with the bike in play. I can do this with almost any subject.