Vintage

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Old Car and an Old Camera How Fitting The other day I was running to Safeway, the neighborhood grocery store, to pick up something for the dinner menu.  Parked in the lot with two spaces to the right was an old Chrysler DeSoto! They really do not make them like they used to. That auto […]

To Dominical

Jungle Paradise Introduction to the Howler Monkeys (Monos Gongos) So Rocky Balboa, I had to ask him twice to be sure that in fact that was his real name. So now the seven of us were moving along at almost a snails pace through the mountains between San Isidro and Dominical. You see Rocky just […]

The Fab 5+1 in Costa Rica

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San Jose Leg One My brother Jordan won in a lottery  a week stay in a house that sleeps 8 located in Dominical Costa Rica. Yeah I was in my wife suggested I go. Sure why not free time away from the family, a chance to take some amazing photographs, hang with my brothers and […]

Newspace Center for Photography

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Cool Developments at Newspace Center for Photography My first experience with Newspace was back in 2005. I displayed my series From the Shadows at Newspace back in May of 2005. It was a combined  show with the artist Liz Haley. Newspace has grown considerably since 2005. The  list of services include a host of classes to be taken, […]

Biking for Views

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Industrial Landscapes Continued I have been biking along North Columbia and connecting with the Columbia Slough trail. It is full of all sorts of industrial goodness and a plesant mix of nature. The city of Portland seems to excel at this mixture of green space within the city. I have taken my boys along this […]

Urban Landscapes

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My Rollei and Urban Landscapes For the last several years when I need a quick get-a-way,  I get on my motorcycle and ride what I call goin’ around the block. I take N. Columbia Boulevard and ’round  back home. This small tour takes me past a very industrial area of Portland, OR. There is generally  […]

Marin Montessori Donation

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Looking up the Columbia Photograph I was asked again this year to donate to the Marin Montessori School. Last year I donated a print called Worst in Show. It was of a photograph of a motorcycle labeled “Worst in Show” at The One Motorcycle Show in Portland, OR in 2011. The Photo was a success […]