day thirty-four

I'm winding down. Getting ready to end the summer visit to Portland and my "At Least One Photo A Day" project. The exercise has been challenging, but I like that I pushed myself to shoot every single day. There were days I got the shot in the first few minutes, but most days I wandered around town for at least a couple hours... often more. I certainly got to know the city of Portland well, and I met many interesting people.

For the most part,  I ran into people who like to be photographed. The people I met liked the attention. And they enjoyed encountering a stranger who found them interesting.

There were plenty of days I didn't want to shoot. There were days I just didn't want to power on. It was harder than I thought it  would be.

I hope you've enjoyed the quotes I found to accompany the photos.

I've also been shooting some color stuff while in Portland. That work is a lot more accessible and predictable. It's more of a record of the memorable things we did while in the Pacific Northwest this summer. I'll share the "best of" those tomorrow.

NW 10th Avenue

Saturday Farmer's Market, South Park Blocks

photos of triumphant olympians = awesome-ness

These are from the Sacramento Bee. Incredible pictures of incredible people.

Australian water polo players

British gymnastic team members

China's Wang Mingjuan

Denmark's handball players

France's Automne Pavia

Germany's Ariane Friedrich

Italy's Elisa Di Francisca

Jamaica's Usain Bolt

Latvia's Martins Plavins and Janis Smedins

South Africa's Chad le Clos

Taiwan's Chuang Chih-yuan

The Netherland's Marianne Vos

USA's Abby Wambach and Shannon Boxx

USA's Kami Craig

USA's Travis Stevens 

Venezuela's Sanchez Rivero

day thirty-three

"In a world where the 2 billionth photograph has been uploaded to Flickr, which looks like an Eggleston picture! How do you deal with making photographs with the tens of thousands of photographs being uploaded to Facebook every second, how do you manage that? How do you contribute to that? What’s the point?"

- Alec Soth

West Burnside Street

day thirty-two

"Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. Most of my photographs are of people; they are seen simply, as through the eyes of the man in the street. There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough—there has to be vision, and the two together can make a good photograph. It is difficult to describe this thin line where matter ends and mind begins."
- Robert Frank

NW Hoyt Street

day thirty-one

"From his photographs [the photographer] learned that the appearance of the world was richer and less simple than his mind would have guessed. He discovered that his pictures could reveal not only the clarity but the obscurity of these things, and that these mysterious and evasive images could also, in their own terms, seem ordered and meaningful."
- John Szarkowski

North Mississippi Street

day thirty

"Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in a small fraction of a second with an unconscious gesture, a gleam of the eye, a brief lifting of the mask that all humans wear to conceal their innermost selves from the world. In that fleeting interval of opportunity the photographer must act or lose his prize."

- Yousuf Karsh

Mariah and Mike, SW 3rd Avenue

day twenty-nine

"... a fact about photography: we can look at people's faces in photographs with an intensity and intimacy that in life we normally only reserve for extreme emotional states—for a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love." 
- Adam Gopnik

Junior, NW Broadway

henry

It's been a while since I've shared pictures of grandson Henry here on the blog. He's getting to be quite a big boy - almost two years old! Abbie sent me a great set of pictures recently. I think you'll like them, especially the very last one.

day twenty-eight

"[Photographs] are the proof that something was there and no longer is. Like a stain. And the stillness is boggling. You can turn away but when you come back they’ll still be there looking at you."
- Diane Arbus

Wedding Party, NW 11th Avenue

day twenty-seven

"Creativity with portraits involves the invocation of a state of rapport when only a camera stands between two people... mutual vulnerability and mutual trust."
- Minor White

Daniel, NW Lovejoy Street

day twenty-six

"For a street photographer randomness is everything, because that’s one thing the world has in abundance, and I am just passing through it with my snare. My camera is a snare. I can throw this sieve out there and I can capture things in it. And risking that gesture all the time is part of the joy of seeing, because I don't have to stretch a canvas, I don’t have to mix the paints, I don’t have to light the studio. I walk around in the world, which is bombarding me with sensations all the time."

- Joel Meyerowitz 

Dressing Room, NW Couch Street

day twenty-five

"It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It’s a frightening thing. Cameras make ghosts out of people."

- Bob Dylan

Doorman, NW Lovejoy Street

day twenty-four

"What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm—the relationship between shapes and values."

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

Robbie, NW 10th Avenue

day twenty-three

"The process of photographing is a pleasure: eyes open, receptive, sensing, and at some point, connecting. It’s thrilling to be outside your mind, your eyes far ahead of your thoughts."
- Henry Wessel

NE Alberta Street

Mascara, On the Southbound Train

day twenty-two

"Photographing in the street with a Leica doesn’t have much to do with planning. You walk out the door and—bang!—you’re part of the great urban cavalcade. But unlike everyone else, you’re carrying an amazing little machine that, joined with a lot of effort, can pull poetry out of a walk downtown."

- Tod Papageorge 

King Street Station, Seattle

day twenty-one

"I sort of believe that a picture is like a prayer; you’re offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it’s like a gift of God because you have practically no control."

- Harry Callahan 

Train Window, Union Station

day twenty

"A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there—even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity."

- Robert Doisneau

"Sometimes the pictures disappear and there's nothing you can do. You can't tell the person, 

'Oh, please smile again. Do that gesture again.' Life is once, forever."

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

SW Yamhill Street 

SW 3rd Avenue

day nineteen

"I think about photographs as being full or empty. You picture something in a frame and it’s got lots of accounting going on in it—stones and buildings and trees and air—but that’s not what fills up a frame. You fill up the frame with feelings, energy, discovery, and risk, and leave room enough for someone else to get in there."
- Joel Meyerowitz


"The photograph isn’t what was photographed. It’s something else. It’s a new fact."
- Garry Winogrand

NW 21st Avenue

day eighteen

"To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis."
- Henri Cartier-Bresson

Four Friends, Cannon Beach

Mother and Son, Cannon Beach

Justin, Cannon Beach

day seventeen

Yes. I skipped a day. Did shoot, but came up empty. Now we are in Manzanita, at the beach for a couple days. Sunnier than Cannon Beach, but very windy!

Kite, Manzanita

Bar, Manzanita