Back Home!

I'm back from my most recent destination wedding. It was help in beautiful Medora, North Dakota surrounded by the North Dakota Badlands.

While in a fairly remote location, Medora is North Dakota's number one tourist destination. While populated by only about 100 people year-round, during the summer months it is occupied by thousands of tourists and seasonal employees.

I'm sure in the coming weeks, I'll be posting more images from this wedding, as there were so many great photo opps.

Finally Back to Blogging!

After a longs summer hiatus, I'm promising to post on a regular basis again.
In hind-sight, perhaps leaving up funeral photos for the past month was not the best choice. I'm thinking that this blog is going to be mostly of a wedding and portrait slant from here on out. More personal work will be posted elsewhere to be linked shortly.

Currently I am in Montana on my way back from a destination wedding in Merdora, North Dakota.

I'll post some of the images from this very beautiful wedding soon.

In the mean time here is a North Dakota Landscape.

RIP Sandy Barr

A few weeks ago Sandy Barr, a well known St. John's figure died while running his flea market. He was 69.
For years he was well known as a wrestling promoter and, many years ago was a pro wrestler himself. He even hosted pro wrestling at his flea market every Tuesday. I covered his memorial service for The Sentinel newspaper. It was held in Cathedral Park on a rainy afternoon.

Starlight Parade

And now another week has gone. I figure I'd better post something new.
Here are a few shots from the Starlight Parade earlier this month. It's one of Portland's more eccentric events. I like it a lot more than the Rose Parade.

Berries

Wow, it's been a whole week since I've posted -- in my mind it's still March, but here it is the Summer Solstice -- this year is flying by. Last weekend we took Anika Strawberry picking. The berries were good, but I think they were too ripe for picking as they turned to mush within 48 hours.

Dignity Village

One story I've been following for the past several years is Dignity Village
Now located in Northeast Portland, they have become quite a collection of small houses. Beginning in 2000, Kwamba Productions has been working on a documentary film about this intentional community and I have been working with them providing some still images.

This image is from my last trip out there back in March.

Suzanne Vega

Lahttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.spell.gifst week I got to photograph Suzanne Vega for KINK radio as she was recording for them in the studio. I've always been a fan of her work, so it was a thrill to get to be able to take pictures of her performing in such an intimate setting.