Dionysios is a musician who has been playing his accordian at the farmers market in Vancouver, WA for 15 years.

The Lacamas Sheep dog trials are taking place right now near my home in Vancouver, Washington. Diane brought her two dogs, Dani and Holley, up from San Diego to do trials.

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An environmental portait I took for one of my friends for her graduation from college. The right person, in the right light at the right place = a nice image. It can take a lot of work to find the right location for a portrait, but the payoff is always worth it. I find the background to be as important as the subject in most of my images. I guess it’s a bit like telling a story, there has to be context for environmental portraiture.

This is an executive portrait I took for The Regence Group in Portland, OR. I used one 500 watt tungsten light with a small octabox attached to it. I shoot these using my Canon 85mm f1.2 lens and I love the abstractness of the background created by the shallow depth of field.

CFO (Chief Financial Officer) magazine hired me to create a portrait of CFO Doug Klein from Goodman’s Interior Structures in Phoenix last month. It was a scramble to find a location and get the shoot organized in a few hours, but we did it. Doug Klein was very gracious with his time and made the job a lot easier for us.

I decided to redo one of my portfolios and call it, “Salt of the Earth,”  to reflect the type of people I meet up here in the Pacific Northwest. I’m only going to include portraits taken here in the Portland/Vancouver area. My latest shot is of Bill and Peggy Zimmerman who own Bi-Zi Farms in Vancouver. It’s a great place to pick up fresh produce and home-made jams and jellies and more. Here’s a link to their site – Bi-Zi Farms.

This is a location portrait of my good friend Robert and the first car he bought, a 1966 GTO. It still has the original paint job and looks great.

This is an environmental portrait of who Dave owns Max Wood, a saw mill, located east of Vancouver, WA, where he creates custom rough sawn lumber for home builder and landscaping.