I am very excited to announce my acceptance into the Newspace Gallery exhibit entitled “On Democracy”. The Portland based fine art gallery asks the question “What does democracy look like to you?” The exhibit opens Friday Oct. 7 and the selected photographs take various approaches in response to the open call’s question. My accepted submission “Emergence” is […]
I really liked Robert’s image “Six O Eight”, it has beautiful lines, light and negative space. My “Conversation” (link to new book) with his image speaks to the lines and forms present in his capture, although in a more high key manner. I thought that flipping the tonality of the image – from shadow to light […]
This shot for my “Game Day” was inspired by an assignment I wrote for my class at the Academy of Art University. In addition to my commercial and fine art work, I also teach. The notion of the assignment – “The Fugitive Flower” was to introduce a non-linear, word-association exercise in an attempt to get […]
The architectural design firm MacKenzie recently hired me to shoot one of their projects in Buckley Washington. Located about 2 hrs north of Portland, the Buckley fire station sits in the shadow of Mt. Rainier. The client wanted full coverage of the facility and its occupants. Scouting the location, while always prudent, did not appear […]
Russ Widstrand’s photography helps to sell prime Oregon vineyard. Precept Wines Acquires Yamhela Vineyard. Russ Widstrand was hired by designer Michael Kavish for his client GI Partners who represented CalPERS, the owner of the property. The multi-day shoot covered several Oregon vineyards, ranging from Salem to Yamhill. Mapping out, and timing the shoot was particularly […]
I chose another form of branches to follow Robert’s asparagus fern shot for the Game. I shot this image while out hiking in the Columbia Gorge. A gorgeous hike with beautiful waterfalls, streams and light. This reflected image struck me as soon as I framed it, it had great compositional form and the blue sky […]
My latest image for the game. Today was such a stellar day in Portland, I had to get outside. It was one of those afternoons I knew was going to produce blue shadows, I love these days. I went to visit a fellow photographer’s show in an industrial area of PDX, ripe pickings for a […]
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