In northeast Portland, there is a nice viewpoint at Rocky Butte Natural Area. The park covers the remains of an extinct volcano and gives you — on clear days — a nice view of several more volcanoes, both extinct (e.g., Mount Tabor, Pilot Butte, etc.) and active (e.g., Mount Hood and Mount St. Helens).
A quick visit to Westmoreland Park, a lovely community park in SE Portland, Oregon…
Summer has begun in 2024 here in Portland. So I took the day off work and headed downtown with my Leica T (L-mount) rangefinder to grab some snapshots…
Taken with my Canon AE-1, still hanging on from the late 1970s. A great little camera and a ton of fun to shoot with, even on a dark and rainy Portland day.
In Sellwood, Oregon, is a one-room insectarium, i.e. a little museum/zoo dedicated to insects and spiders.
Always a fun Portland destination, especially this time of year when many of the plants are in bloom.
A few months ago I took my beloved Canon AE-1 and some expired film around downtown Portland, Oregon.
Not only was it pouring rain in the dead of winter, but more importantly about two thirds of the place were closed for a massive renovation project…
I shot Portland rockers Pacific Latitudes in November 2019 — go to a show too and enjoy yourself!
Relaxed splendor just west of downtown. And this trip includes the Refashioning Beauty exhibit of art by Noritaka Tatehana…
Almost always a thrilling stop for flower lovers like myself, even in October when the roses are not at their height…
Rhododendrons and magnolias and daffodils and countless other flowers were blooming and the aromas were wonderful…
Custom cowls from Kate Lonsdale’s Moon and Sixpence Knits shop…
Even though it was a cold, wintery day, we found many flowers in bloom already…
10 acres of lush beauty, filled with many Pacific Northwest plants, most notably of course rhododendrons…
In July 2018 Elaine Schimek and I were invited to the opening of the new Canopy by Hilton hotel in Portland, Oregon…
A hidden oasis of more than 15 acres in the rows of residential grid deep in east Portland…
Almost 700 areas of lush forest, trails, wildlife, serenity… and all in the middle of the rolling hills of southwest Portland
An outstanding place, with over ten thousand rose plants making the air smell heavenly sweet…
Oregon's Flow Resale might be young, but they sure have a level of charm that many more seasoned bands can only dream of.
I have the privilege of working every day in the lush, beautiful campus of Lewis & Clark College…
Photographer/musician/model Myles Katherine and I hung out at She Shreds magazine in North Portland, Oregon, in January 2018...
When my pal Claire Thorington, talented photographer and model, told me she had moved back to Portland, I grabbed my camera and snapped a bunch of portraits of her on a freezing night near the close of 2017...
As always, there were more ducks than you could count, and geese, and for once at least the world's most obese squirrel...
