Oregon’s Highway 97 is one of the more banal, yet beautiful routes to adventure on if you give it your attention and some extra time. A slow, meandering highway through Eastern Oregon, there are so many beautiful moments like this early wheat crop. It’s what inspired the original Windows XP desktop.
Got a chance to see all of Portland’s top Internet marketing geniuses gathered together in their annual networking social. Water-balloon fights, wonderful conversation, some awesome drinks provided by @thegrowlerguys, and a charity that deserves attention: Harper’s Playground, because inclusion rocks.
This is a close-up shot of the long-gone Mississippi Street Nerd. I can’t remember who threw these iconographic nerds all over the places, but I snapped this image as the wood underneath started splitting from the summer heat. Ah, texture…
These are from an older shoot, but they deserve re-visiting. Malene Jensen is a fabulous model.
Seen near OMSI. No idea what this is used for, though.
Another great open house at North Coast Seed Building this year. This time I made some portraits for the willing, and summarily turned seventeen of the photos into paintings. Thanks for coming down!
The River Queen was moored along the banks of the Willamette river in downtown Portland for decades. She’s now moored on the Columbia, in a ghostly sort of way. More information:
Yep, that’s me. Headbutting a gate. But… a large tree actually did the damage. I’m just posing. Photo by Peter Kim.
