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Caption: Dave Dillinger tunes his guitar before a performance at Dante's in Portland, Ore., on Thursday night, March 8, 2007.
I shot these two pictures last Thursday night in Portland. I can't decide which one I like best. Chime in if you have an opinion.
>While your at it, check out my recent work gallery at thomasrboyd.net. The link is on the right.
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We had a free day in Portland Sunday. We cleaned out our checking account to get into the Portland Art Museum's The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt features the largest selection of antiquities ever loaned by Egypt for exhibition in North America. It includes objects that have never been on public display and many that have never been seen outside of Egypt. Ancient Egyptian beliefs and practices based on the afterlife journey of pharaohs will be dramatically illustrated through approximately 115 magnificent objects from Egypt and a life-sized reconstruction of the burial chamber of the New Kingdom pharaoh Thutmose III (1479-1425 BC).
It was very impressive indeed. There was a little too much to hold the kid's interest, but they were good sports. Of course we asked them what liked best about the trip to Portland and they both said it was the trip to the Nike Outlet Store to buy shoes.
In any event, I took a few snaps, thinking it would be okay since I wasn't using a flash. The dude on the right is heading in my direction to nuke my Egyptian photo safari. I took some photos anyway and the sky didn't fall. No one was injured and the mummies didn't rise.
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I had lunch with my mother and grandmother at The Portside in Charleston, Ore., yesterday. This is one reason I love having a job close to where I grew up. I had a shoot in Charleston so they met me for lunch. Today is my grandmother's 83rd birthday.
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I decided my bio photo needed updating, so I had Carrie shoot some snaps of me and cole and I shot a few of Greta.
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Skate World doesn't look, or smell, any different than when I went there in middle school in the early 80's. It's a classic!
Caption: Just because Josh Quint, 14, right, broke his arm skating, doesn't mean he didn't take advantage of the busiest day of year during President's Day All Day Skate at Skate World in Springfield, Monday, Feb. 19, 2007, with his friends Nikole Wright, 15, and Jacque Tena, 17, left. Quint goes skating up to three times a week and was waiting for a possible "speed skate," which he heard probably wasn't going to happen because of the smaller children in attendance.
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I shot this a few minutes ago outside on the street in front of our house. Cole started playing basketball at 10:30 this morning. As I write this at 5:50 p.m. he's still playing outside where I shot this photo.
>I just added a "Recent Work" gallery to my website. Some of it will be duplicated on this blog, but I'll try update it regularly. It covers work from Jan.1 until Feb. 13.
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Here's another frame from my outing last Saturday night. I shot this through a sheer curtain that had a gold lame' design woven in.
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Last summer I covered the Black Crater forest fire. I was sending from the Sisters Middle School and for some reason didn't save my take on my laptop after putting it in the system. I just recently dug up the original files for contest purposes. On deadline I sent a vertical version of this image but aesthetically I like this horizontal version better. I shot it from a nearby dormant volcano with a 300/2.8 after the sun went down. As I recall it was a 30 second exposure. It illustrates how difficult it was for firefighters to deal with this type of fire. It burned all summer.
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Here's a snap I took at the Horsehead in Eugene, Ore. The pool players are reflected in a mirror.
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Here I am at the Oregon/Arizona game. There were more celebrities on hand than usual. Behind me are Joey Harrington, Ahmad Rashad, and Phil Knight. I also saw NBA great Jerome Kersey, NFL greats Dave Wilcox and Chris Miller, ABC commentator Brent Musberger, and the SI.com girl, Jenn Sterger.
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This is me snowshoeing during an assignment. Outdoor reporter Mike Stahlberg shot it with my camera.
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I'm thinking about starting my nightlife project again. I suppose I never really stopped, but I'm going to push much harder on it this year. I went out last night for 2 hours. I went to three bars and stayed for a short time. I just wanted to get a feel for it.
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Here's a snap from Waldport, Ore.
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Tonight Wayne and I crossed paths when he was shooting an earlier game of the double-header at South Eugene High School. I shot his photo as he was finishing up. Wayne is 76-years-old and has been working at The Register-Guard since the 1960's. Most of that time has been on the late shift covering prep sports.
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Click the link above to see an audio slideshow of a wrestling tournament I shot last Saturday. The assignment was to shoot a few Cottage Grove wrestlers for the Prep Week sport page. I could have been done in about an hour. Since it was my only assignment Saturday I decided to stay for the entire 10-hours of the tournement and capture some audio. This is the result. Again, I'm doing things like this for purpose of fine-tuning my audio capture and editing skills. Getting good audio is much harder than it looks and I can use all the practice I can get.
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My 8-year-old daughter, Greta, is developing into a quite an artist. I'm not just saying that because I'm her father. Okay, I am, but she is truly very good. I'm serious.