Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum (WAAAM)
What makes this museum unique and worth visiting is not simply the hundreds of beautiful old airplanes, cars, trucks, motorcycles, etc., but also that everything there actually stills functions. So the cars still drive and the planes still fly.
A Drive to the Columbia Gorge and Hood River, Oregon
A foggy morning gave way to a sunny afternoon as Elaine and I took a drive from Portland up the Columbia Gorge to Hood River for lunch…
Coyote Wall, Washington, April 2016
Last April I went hiking with Meghan Sinnott and four-legged friends, Maddy and Journey, up Coyote Wall at the eastern end of the Columbia River Gorge in Washington. The outing offered a great chance to try out my newly purchased Velvet 56 lens from Portland's own Lens Baby; the lens can do some really fun "velvety" bokah tricks (particularly along the frame edges) and looks nice whether you're shooting landscapes, portraits, or macros...