Photos taken during a field trip with the Photographing Portland PCC class in January, 2025. We started at the CLIMB Center on SE Water Ave and walked along the Willamette river, near I-5, to OMSI.

There's this creek that comes in through the dunes and across the beach to the ocean; a little world all to it's own.

Along NE Lombard Street and out at Broughton Beach by the Columbia River. A really great day for clouds. All of these photographs were taken with a Leica Q3 I was trying out for a few of days in November of 2024.

This railroad bridge goes across the Willamette River, upstream from the St. Johns Bridge. When I drove out through NW Portland to this bridge, I discovered that there's no place to park within my walking distance. Undaunted, I found a place to park about a mile and a half away, then rode my bike to the bridge. I spotted these palettes on the way to the bridge.

My good friend, Randy McKeeman, introduced me to this park in January of 2022. I think of him often when I return to be in the presence of these tall trees.

It's not so much about the bridge itself, but really about the area along the Willamette River and the sky.

When I have some time, and I'm in the area, there's often a building that causes me to slow down and pause.

Since around 2020, I've been visiting Broughton Beach, which is located on the Columbia River, close to the Portland Airport.

In the fall of 2020, I enrolled in a photography class, Developing a Personal Project. For my final project, I started working with a collection of photographs I had taken of the Broadway Bridge. The letter to Behn, my father, grew out of my work with the photos.