I find jazz music to be the best when live and a concert is second only to a jazz club when it comes to experiencing it. This last weekend I was asked to photograph Geri Allen and it was a treat indeed. She put on a fun show with great music! One of the highlights was her accompaniment, especially the tap dancer which you can see in the movie below. He was full of energy!

Some video of the amazing tap dancing. It is fun having HD video on my SLR.


It was interesting to watch her and the bassist interact with each other.


And Geri speaking to the audience:

Karyn started telemark skiing about three years ago, but she has been downhill skiing about as long as she could walk. Needless to say she is rather good at it! Anyhow, when she started telemark skiing she let me use her old GS (giant slalom) skis. For those who don’t know, GS skis are long and heavy! For a couple of years I did my best, with little success, to follow her down the mountain without looking like a fool. Last year I had enough foolishness and purchased my own telemark gear. Boy I am happy I did. For the first time ever I feel like I can ski down the mountain while in control and looking good. Yippee!

Now to the photos... Skiing on Mt Hood usually requires one to spend the day in windy and snowy conditions, but this January was one of the driest I can remember and made for some blue sky ski days. No wind to boot! The photos are proof.

Karyn and myself with Mt Jefferson and the Three Sisters in the background.


BLUE sky!


Super steep place to stop for a photo! Never could have skied this on GS skis.

Here are a couple of fun series. The shadows are great to look at!

I have been photographing for the Reed College Theatre Department for other three years. It is something I never get tired of. New student actors, new scripts, and new sets make every performance a great shoot. I get free range in front of the stage during the dress rehearsal to photograph to my hearts content. The images are as much for the school as they are for the students to use and show to family and friends.

These images are from A Bright Room Called Day by Tony Kushner and directed by Kathleen Worley.

I love photographing back stage as the actors prepare.






This interpretation of the Devil is one of the best I have ever seen!








The lighting and costume made for a very dramatic scene.




And the final curtain call.


If you are located in Portland Oregon and want to see a Reed Theatre performance you can see their schedule on their web site performance schedule.

Karyn and I made it up to Seattle last weekend to visit a friend and for a bit of a vacation. She has been busy with pharmacy school but she had a three day weekend so took off up North.

Our first stop was at the Olympic Sculpture Park. The place is a must see if you make it to the city.

Karyn (my wonderful wife) on the left, and yours truly on the right.




Can you figure out which shadow is ours?


And the first Starbucks location. Can you figure out what is different with their logo?


Our friend, Adam, hamming it up at the REI fireplace.


The big splurge of the weekend was going to an NFL game. I figured nosebleeds would be cheap but I guess they have to pay those multi-million dollar players somehow!


This next one is a panorama put in a QTVR (Please click to drag, or use shift/control (shift/option in windows) to zoom. Enjoy.)

Jon Moscow and some of the folks he worked with forty years ago in setting up dental and health clinics with the  Portland Panthers. These clinics were some of the precursors to our current government healthcare system, giving the model of free healthcare. It was great to hear a little bit of what life was like back then from 1969 to 1979.

We started at the original site of the Malcolm X People's Dental Clinic with Jon Moscow (left) and Kent Ford (right). These were two of the clinic founders.


Our second stop was with Sandra Ford. She helped recruit doctors to volunteer their time at the dental clinic.


And finally, Jon with Dr. Gerald Morrell, the first dentist at the clinic.

Just started editing photos from Karyn's and my honeymoon. As you can see I got involved with making panoramas and have consequently "wasted" an hour or more making this QTVR. Hope you like it!

(Please click to drag, or use shift/control (shift/option in windows) to zoom. Enjoy.)

...but probably not. I had a lot of fun taking these photos though. Needed some head shots for an application but we had some extra time so I shot these as well. I think it came out rather well, don't you?

It sure does pay off to be a Reed alumnus some times! The Reed Alumni Association got together for a tour of the Reedie owned Clear Creek Distillery in NW Portland. We got a tour of their facilities and ended with a tasting of their very good concoctions! I even put myself on the waiting list for their whiskey which is claimed to be the best made in the united states. We will see about that (not that I know). Here are some photos and you can see more about the distillery here: http://clearcreekdistillery.com/

Their stills are made in Germany and are very fancy looking!


The aging room with all their fancy casks. On an interesting side note they have started to use Oregon oak casks.


And some of their pear in the bottle pear brandy. Yes that is a real pear inside there...they grow them in the bottles!

A large part of putting together this website has been choosing which photos to put on it. During this rather dreary process I came across this series of stills taken last summer at Uke Fest. Needless to say I couldn't help putting them together into a movie. Fun stuff!