>Lefty

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This guy has a belt buckle that reads: "LEFTY". He tapes a piece of black vinyl irrigation hose to his stump with shipping tape and strums for change at the Saturday Market in Portland, Ore. When it started to rain, he and his partner called it quits as Lefty proclaimed, "Let's get a beer!"

>Portland Rose Festival

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I missed this on the first edit at Geekfest. It was shot very early in the morning before the Rose Festival Grand Floral Parade last weekend.

>Melissa Lyttle Roids Me

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Melissa Lyttle photographed me in Portland with Michael Rubenstein's rare polaroid camera.

>The Pre

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These are images from the Pre Classic in Eugene, on June 10, 2007.

>A Diptych From the Rose Festival

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This is a serie of diptychs I produced from work at the Rose Festival in Portland, Ore. this weekend.

>Photo Booth

>This photo won me a new Canon G7 at the Canon Shootout during the NPPA Summit in Portland. I also won a ThinkTank Pro Mod. Belt system. Totally sweet stuff. Click on the link above to see the other work I shot from that evening.

>Bad Kids!

>I'm pretty sure I read somewhere in a parenting manual that we're not supposed to let the children jump off the furniture. Oh well, it was a good chance to try out my new Canon G7!

>The Biggest Group Wedding Photo Ever

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For me anyway. This is from Chad Johnson and Nancy Ettinger's wedding at the Portland Art Museum on May 26, 2007.

>Clipper's Entourage

>Here's another one from Clipper's maiden voyage.

>Greta and Clipper

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This is Greta with her new horse named Clipper. My Mom and Greg bought Clipper for Greta and her cousin Payton. This was her first time meeting her new horse. I forsee many trips to North Bend in the coming years.

>Noise Fest

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I swung into something called Eugene Noisefest tonight. I stayed as long as I could until blood started coming out of ears. Okay, I'm exaggerating, but James Rexroad did get some blood splattered on his white shirt from an energetic performer.

Here's a snap from my short time there.

>Coastal Poloroid Panel

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I shot this with my trusty Poloriod One Step on the Oregon Coast and then scanned them. I messed one up so I only have nine out of the ten photos.

>Seaworld

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This is one of the first snaps at Sea World on the first stop of our vacation.

>Orangutan at the San Diego Zoo

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We think her name is Karen. She put on a pretty good show.

>What Have You Done For Me Lately?

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With my new scanner I've been scanning new negs, and old prints. In July and August I'll be showing my sports work to other photographers (more on that later) so I dug out some really old sports photography. This image stuck out immediately. I remember it like it was yesterday....except it was 1993. I was working for Casey Madison at The Columbian. I was sent to this gym that was the darkest I've encountered since. It was notorious among the veteran photographers as being the worse in the Portland/Vancouver metoropolitan area...and Milan Chuckovich said it was darker than any gym in Idaho as well.

Anyway, I was using Nikon F4's with the first version of the 80-200/2.8. It was loaded with Kodak TMZ 3200 pushed one stop to 6400 iso. There was literally no room to stand on the baseline, but there was a balcony over the court. I shot from there and got really lucky with the player falling to the ground and trying to pass. Then, a defender steps in for the steal.

Even though I really didn't know what I was doing that early in my career, I managed to pull a decent shot out of very difficult circumstances. Casey was very pleased. The funny thing is, I know I couldn't do any better now, even though I've got another 14-years of experience and way better equipment. That night, I made a few right decisions and had something interesting happen in front of my camera. I still feel the same way when it happens now....pleased.

I was also amazed by the image quality. This print has grain the size of golf balls. It's dark and gritty...but I there's something kind of cool about it. Photoshop can't do that...at least I don't know how to do it.

>The Page

>The pdf has finally been fixed on the Best of Photojournalism site that shows our winning front page. Click on the link above to see it.

>Cole's Had Enough

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There comes a time in young man's life when he's had his photo taken one too many times. This is that time.

>Heceta Head

>Between assignments on the coast I deployed the Poloroid One Step camera for some instant photo chemical fun.

>Gap Ad

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I really think The Gap ought to pay Greta and I some good money for this photo.. They'd sell a bunch of shirts.

>Take a Look

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