The Redd on Salmon Street: Building the Shot List
Two linked warehouse buildings on Portland's central east side, home to Ecotrust's food and farms hub. Timber, steel, roll-up doors and a working-building feel.
Leftbank Annex: Field Notes on an Industrial Venue
A big, raw, open industrial space near the Willamette on Portland's inner east side. Total creative freedom, and a room that gives a photographer nothing for free.
The Nines: A Walk-Through for Wedding Photographs
Built inside the upper floors of the historic Meier & Frank department store, with a glass-roofed atrium at its centre. The atrium is the whole photographic story.
Multnomah Athletic Club: Is It Right for Your Photographs?
A private athletic club founded in 1891, beside Providence Park in Portland's West End. Polished, spacious and private — with the constraints that private clubs bring.
Sentinel Hotel: Reading the Light, Building the Timeline
A downtown Portland hotel formed from two early 1900s buildings, including a former Elks lodge with an ornate ballroom. Grand interiors, and almost no daylight in them.
Portland Art Museum: Planning the Shot List
The oldest art museum in the Pacific Northwest, founded 1892, with a Pietro Belluschi-designed building. Museum lighting is the challenge; the architecture is the reward.
Shooting a Wedding at the Crystal Ballroom: The Technical Side
A 1914 room on the third floor of a downtown Portland building, with a mechanical floating dancefloor and lighting built for bands rather than weddings. A technical guide.
McMenamins Kennedy School: Field Notes for a Wedding Photographer
A 1915 schoolhouse in Northeast Portland turned hotel, bar and event space. Enormous character, tungsten light everywhere, and painted walls that will colour-cast your skin tones.
Rose Test Garden Weddings: A Photographer Answers the Real Questions
Ten thousand rose bushes on a west-facing terrace with the city and Mount Hood behind. Spectacular in June, and the busiest ceremony spot in Portland. The honest answers.
Hoyt Arboretum: A Season-by-Season Photography Guide
A 190-acre tree museum on a ridge in Washington Park, with twelve miles of trail and a conifer canopy that changes the exposure by three stops in twenty paces.
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