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The Meier & Frank Building. Built in 1909, it's on the National Register of Historic Places and it's a Portland Historic Landmark. (Portland Downtown 005.jpg)
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Another image from December's Grid. I got out for a walk with a fellow member of the group, Stuart Levy, and we explored a bit of the Grid after dark. That particular night I had been inspired to use my Flexbody and I think I ended doing all the photography that night with it. It is such a fun camera to use, when I am in the right mood, though it is tricky at night. The biggest challenge is simply being able to see the scene on the ground glass. The brighter areas show up easy enough but the screen get dim, particularly when you start tilting the camera as light hits the ground glass at an angle instead of perpendicularly, thereby making the image on the screen much dimmer. The Flexbody actually comes with a pair of fresnel screens that you can slip in for when you have the camera tilted to various amounts that allow easier viewing. But even these have their own quirks.
Anyway, that is all really just a tangent. I sometimes set this camera up and am indecisive as to where I prefer the tilt. I usually make an effort to figure it out and to not use too much film, but sometimes I will go ahead and make a couple different iterations. I think in this case I made the left image first as it seemed the most obvious to me in terms of how to use the tilt effect. But then since the camera was all set up, I went ahead and reversed the tilt "just to see". The result was the image on the right. I thought it interesting in its own way. Then when I saw them both scanned it seemed like while the left image could stand on its own interestingly enough, the right image was a bit too vague... or missing something. So I paired it up into a diptych with the first image and that seemed to make better sense.
Just sharing some of my thought process behind the making of these.
Hasselblad Flexbody
Agfa APX 400
Portland Head Light, is an historic lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. The light station sits on a head of land at the entrance of the primary shipping channel into Portland Harbor, which is within Casco Bay in the Gulf of Maine. Completed in 1791, it is the oldest lighthouse in the state of Maine.
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Photographed about 7AM on a cold Sunday morning, lacking good winter gear. Clouds wound up working well, looking S/SE toward sunrise. I can see why so many want to photograph this place.
While in Seattle with Ryan, visiting my dear friend Matt, we rented a Ford Fusion and went to Portland & Cannon Beach in Oregon. A ways outside of Portland, we picked up a lot of dark-room equipment from atop a mountain home, which remained in the trunk & full of chemicals (we later found out) for the remainder of our trip. I drove twelve~ hours in two days up and down mountains and in between giant trees. We did not stay in Portland terribly long, but I can confidently say that McMenamins makes a mean, and messy, chicken caesar wrap, the freeways are apparently confusing to men, and there are a lot of people who maybe I could be friends with.
I was looking for an unusual view of the lighthouse so hopefully this shot does the job. Worth a look in Lightbox.
The title pretty much says it all.
My wife and I moved here in April of 2006 to allow me to start my career...and what a great place to start. Portland has been a wonderful place to live. It's a great city...in a beautiful part of the country...and has a lot of things to suite anyone's taste in culture, art, entertainment, etc.
However, Portland was always a stepping stone location for us...a means to an end that preferably had us heading back east and closer to home. That time has finally come. Last week I was offered a job in Arkansas, which I gladly accepted! We officially leave town on April 28th, just a few short weeks away now!
Before I leave though, I wanted to take a moment and share a thought or two about my time on flickr. In 2007 I was introduced to the world of flickr. After following (often times totally astounded at the images that were produced by them) the flickr streams of folks such as Jesse, Ara, Danielle, and perhaps most influential and encouraging to me, Zeb, I decided to join this world of flickr.
Thus began a fantastic journey for me. I've grown to really love photography over the last 2 years. I've met a lot of people, some of whom (such as Victor) I've been shooting with several times and have become good friends with. The knowledge that I've acquired through my interactions with all of my flickr buddies is priceless, and I have appreciated all the time people have spent to explain the most simplest of tasks.
Finally...in the age of the internet...I don't guess this is really goodbye. I will continue to follow all of my friends streams (most likely in an envious manner during times like the tulip festival, etc), and hope you will do the same with me. Arkansas may not have a Ramona or Multnomah falls...nor vast wild flower meadows high up on volcanic peaks...but it does have STORMS! Oh how I have missed my thunderstorms!
P.S. - That last note was a shout out to Little M. I think it's a shout out b/c of her comment on this picture. ;o) Looks like I'll get my storms after all M!
Portland developed a reputation early on in its history as a hard-edged and gritty port town. Some historians have described the city's early establishment as being a "scion of New England; an ends-of-the-earth home for the exiled spawn of the eastern established elite." In 1889, The Oregonian called Portland "the most filthy city in the Northern States," due to the unsanitary sewers and gutters, and, at the turn of the 20th century, it was considered one of the most dangerous port cities in the world.