I shot the Blazers game Wednesday as they faced off with the 0-14 New Jersey Nets. Here are a few selects from the game. My favorite… The fans with front row seats.
You can see the rest of my photos from the game on my photoshleter page HERE.
I have the most amazing naturopath doctor, Dr. Patrick Chapman (http://chapmannd.org/). This weekend Patrick and his wife Leigh Ann invited me into their home to photograph their newborn daughter Amelia. It’s so fascinating how expressive little babies can be. You can literally see them investigating and absorbing all their surroundings in total amazement. If and when they’re not eating or sleeping. apparently something babies do an awful lot of.
Oh, and one of the best photo assistants ever, the lovely Anna Rieke.
Anna and I took a drive down to the Umpqua River lighthouse, the tallest lighthouse on the Oregon coast. While we walked around taking in the sites I shot an engagement style portrait of a nice young couple enjoying the romantic setting as fog rolled in off the beach.
I had planned on going to Crater Lake Saturday to do some shooting, it was rumored that there was going to be some snow and I thought that would be a unique time to shoot the famed Oregon landmark. But unfortunately it did snow, and it snowed a lot. So much so that they closed the north rim. Anna and I detoured around and took a trip up the North Coast Highway. We stayed in Newport Friday night, and I decided to get up before the sun and shoot fishermen down on the docks. Newport is a major fishing port on the Oregon coast, and not so much a tourist spot. I shot some boats on the water the night before, and the Newport bridge first thing in the morning while it was still dark, but I was more drawn towards the fishermen on the docks.
I also discovered a 95 year old fishing boat that has seen better days. I asked a boat captain what happened and he shrugged his shoulders and said in a funny but matter-of-fact way, “it sunk.”
I took a drive down to southern Oregon Thursday, and decided to detour through a few small towns and take a look around. I made a couple new friends at the Shell station as I filled up my tank, and bought a bag of M&M’s. Then as I drove the back roads something caught my eye. A woman staring out the front window of a small, rundown, row apartment. So I pulled over and took her picture. Her face was so moving and captivating. It made me stop and think about what it would be like to live in a place like Rice Hill, on the side of I-5. I spoke with her briefly, finding out that she had lived in the town her whole life.
I was driving through a massive rain storm the other day in Portland and realized that rain is not a good reason to leave my camera at home. I framed a few amazing photos in my minds eye, as interesting scenes unfolded in front of me due to the crazy weather. A car stuck in two feet of water under an overpass on Powell, a shivering, cold, old woman holding a broken umbrella with her arms full of groceries as she waited for the bus, an amazing rainbow as the clouds lifted. I must have my camera with me at all times. So I have re-committed myself to keeping a camera at arms length 24/7.
Photography is a medium of permanence and immediacy. I love photography because it provides me with an outlet to explore my curiosity with the world and the people in it. I am so surprised every day I venture out into the world with my camera, so I invite you to please check back from time to time and be surprised with me.
I shot the Blazers at home tonight in the Rose Garden, which I will blog about at length soon. But for all you fans out there I’ll share a couple of my fav’s from the game.
So it’s official, I’ve joined the ranks of pro-photo freelancers all across the globe and got on to photoshelter. Soon my galleries and photos will be available for purchase, digital downloads and prints, from my integrated photoshelter site. As of now I have posted a few splash page photos and a gallery from a pee wee football game Saturday.
If you’re a mom, dad, coach or otherwise follow the link and check out the pics from the two games I photographed. Please let me know how well the site functions so I can make it as easy and user-friendly as possible.
I’m still working on editing the photos from Friday nights wedding with Chris and Shawna, but here are a couple selects I picked out to share on the blog. Chris and Shawna had an elegant private ceremony at home with family that was as moving as the most grandiose of weddings. And it wasn’t without it’s unique, funny, and heartfelt moments. Like when Chris fumbled a little putting the ring on Shawna’s finger. I think he was a little nervous.
I’ll start off today with an interesting photo of a man, eating a bowl of noodles alone in a chinese restaurant. I was walking from my car over to Harrison Street and found myself drawn toward this scene. I’m often captivated by events that invoke a sense of quiet isolation among a busy city environment.
Before lunch today I shot some more Halprin abstracts, this time of the planter bowls near the Lovejoy fountain.
Then after lunch I met up with Will and Jane for a stroll around the landscape to shoot some panoramics. A bit of a departure from my last set of images. I have a few more ideas along this same line that I’ll explore around sunrise Sunday morning.
