Film Photography
I have never stopped using film, even as digital took over in a big way and film became harder to find. These are some of the images that I have made over the years. See the descriptions for camer and technical data.
The White River flows from the White Glacier on Mt Hood, and into Oregon’s dry side, known as the Rain Shadow, where it tunbles down White River Falls near Tygh Valley on its way to the Deschutes, which flows into the Mighty Columbia.
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I took this with a 1950’s Speed Graphic press camera on Kodak T-Max 100 film. I souped it in PMK Pyro, an odd reveloper that made the negative easier to deal with by compressing the extreme tonal range.
Multnomah Falls is Oregon’s most popular natural attraction. So popular that it’s hard to photograph it these days without anyone on the Benson Bridge. I made this picture during rare slow day at the falls, and managed to sneak in a sunbeam as well.
Printied on aluminum and archival to 200 years.
Each aluminum print comes with a float frame attached to the back, so it can be hung on the wall immediately after removing it from the shipping box.
I made this one with my tructy Hasselblad 500CM on colr negative film. It’s a very difficult image to get right due to the bottom of the picture being much darker than the top. I have treated that differently over the years, and now I have chosen to even out the tones, but I may change it again soon.
Sometimes you have to point your camera downward. On this morning in 1999 (or 2000, I don’t remember which) the wind was making the fall foliage around Wahkeena Falls in the Columbia Gorge, Oregon impossible to photograph. SO, I pointed my camera into the stream. It turned out beautifully. This one always gets positive comments in my shows, and is awash in a gentle vibe.
Printied on aluminum and archival to 200 years.
Each aluminum print comes with a float frame attached to the back, so it can be hung on the wall immediately after removing it from the shipping box.
Another Hasselblad image. I took this one on Fuji Velvia slide film. It’s one of the premier films ever made, but its getting hard to find.
The Wheel
One day in 2003, driving east from Goldendale, Washington, I came upon a scene that felt lifted straight from a dog-eared Western songbook: semi‑arid rolling hills, rippling wheat fields, and a weathered barn standing like a memory against the sky. I photographed it on infrared film with a medium‑format Hasselblad 500CM, and the image has remained one of my favorites for years—its tonal contrast and dynamic lines give the landscape a timeless, slightly surreal quality that still speaks to me.
More pictures coming.
Me and my Deardorff at Cedar Creek Grist Mill, October 2025
I never wanted film photography to become a lost art.
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