Published: February 2014

Side Trip

After seeing Roberts image, “Field of Dreams” for the Daily Photo Game, I immediately knew what I was going to play in response, my image titled: “Side Trip”. This photograph was produced on our first trip to Portland to shop for real estate, when we decided it was time to relocate and leave our Montana house remodel []


Twitter Actually Worked!

True Confessions of a Social Networking Doubter Historically I’ve been a doubter of social networking, though I’m working hard at changing that. I conceptually understood social networking’s potential in self-published, self-promoted and network-distributed marketing for the masses…”If you tell two friends, and they tell two friends, and so on.” And yet I viewed it a []


Russ Widstrand Images on TV

Widstrand’s client, Doug Shafer, president of Shafer Vineyards, talks about winning Wine Spectator’s 2012 Wine of the Year on national TV. Announced in Fall 2013, Widstrand’s still images of Shafer’s vineyards were shown mid-way in the segments. Doug has this to say about working with Widstrand… “Russ has become a trusted partner for Shafer projects that require []


Lam Research Shoot

Time Lapse Photography Depicts Room Divider The above time lapse video was part of a recent interior shoot for Portland based, MacKenzie. The client wanted to show how they designed this custom employee cafe to be multi-purpose, the challenge was… how to depict the function of a retractable wall. Time lapse immediately came to my mind []


Empty Pocket

Roberts’ lovely image for the Daily Photo Game of “The Trouble with Mice”, is a tough act to follow, such a cute mouse and a great story. I struggled with conceptualizing my image. It even kept me awake last night, racking my brain for a suitable visual response. Then it dawned on me, that it would []


Pop Cars

Super Bowl Sunday. I thought the preoccupation with cars in the game could use a different direction. I like cars as much as the next guy, perhaps less than my fellow gamers. But I am less interested in them as the showy display of shiny metal and power. For photography, I like them as concepts, so my []