Weekly Photo
This week I got to photograph three brothers for a birthday gift for their grandmother. What mom wanted was to have me create a portrait of the three boys together. Oh, I almost forgot the most important part about this story, two of the boys were three year old twins, and their little brother was [...]
Yaquina Lighthouse
Yaquina Head Light House is my newest photo of the week. The day of the shoot it was a very cold 41 degrees. The real problem that day was the wind. Twice I was nearly blown over by gusts. Try shooting on a tripod in a gale, heck, try keeping your lens dry. I do [...]
Paz Ramos, Portrait
This week the spotlight is on Paz Ramos, the Principal at Alder Elementary School in Gresham Oregon. Alder has the unique designation of being one of the most impoverished elementary schools in the state of Oregon. When I met Paz my eye was immediately drawn to a pencil sketch he had on his wall. The [...]
Shoot Those Girls!
One of my favorite types of photo session is with small children. I like working with the little ones because they are so unpredictable and I actually get a great deal of exercise trying to keep up with them. While this can be a major motivator to keep me on my photographic toes, as it [...]
Winter Formal Fun!
Last weekend I had the pleasure of covering the Winter Formal at Portland Lutheran School. PLS is an independent prep school with students who are highly motivated to learn. This is the second time they asked me to cover an event for them and some of the students remembered me from my first visit. This [...]
Brittany and Chelsea’s Senior Portrait
This week I had the opportunity to photograph Brittany and Chelsea for their senior portrait. As you may have noticed they are twins. Their photo session occurred over a two day period mostly because we live in Portland and the weather changes every six or seven seconds. The studio session was completed during a rather [...]
Anita’s Wedding Day
This week’s photo is of Anita, a young bride who was married at the Bell Tower Chapel near Sandy, Oregon. The setting started out as an experiment in light for me. The ceremony had concluded and most of the guests were outside at the banquet celebration. I found Anita walking, alone, back into the chapel. [...]
Balerina Portrait
This week’s photo is one I took of Rachel, a ballerina, who teaches at Spotlight Performing Arts here in Portland. I was lucky enough to be invited by the owner, Sherry to photograph her staff of instructors last weekend. Every photo session has commonalities one of which is to ‘find’ the essence of the person [...]
Newborn Portrait
I chose Averie for my photo of the week, mostly because I would rather photograph children than anything else. She also has these wonderfully beautiful, mesmerizing eyes that just looked right through me. It was as though she knew what we were trying to accomplish and enjoyed the attention that her mom and I were [...]
