Dodging traffic isn’t an ideal situation when making photographs. In this instance I chose an early Sunday morning in Portland, Oregon to photograph the Hawthorne Bridge. I scouted the day previous and selected a viewpoint from the roadway. I had my dad, who lives in Portland, help spot for cars. Luckily the morning proved to be sleepy with only a couple cars coming by. The real difficulty is that bridges shake. After each passing car, I had to wait 20 seconds or so for all vibrations to stop.
Category: Portland
Portlandia
During my first solo gallery show in New York, I displayed this image as an 11×14 foot print on the ceiling at 379 Broome Street. Beneath the image were four large bean bags where people could lie down and look up….straight up. Most people thought it was the Rockefeller Center, but indeed it’s the Portlandia Sculpture on the Portland Building in Oregon