From Willamette View: Looking at Some of My Favorite Photos

Some of my favorite photographs.

When it comes to taking pictures my primary interest is in street photography, that is, catching people going about their lives in ways that I (and hopefully others) will find interesting. I like these photos to tell a story. Sometimes chance and luck plays a big part in street photography. A photo of the delighted and delightful Korean street performers (below at The Fringe Festival in Scotland, current website) is a good example. Another example of chance and luck is the photo of the presumably homeless man at Union Station in Washington D.C. I'd first photographed him alone, but then tried to add a passerby to the photo. It was the luck of the low shutter speed that caused the woman to be blurred, resulting in a photo that led to the title "Invisible Man" creating the sense of a rushed commuter ignoring one of Washington's many homeless people.

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Korean performers at play at The Fringe, Edinburgh, Scotland

Love at the Beach

This is in Boston. The first is the better photo 

because the young man is giving me the evil eye. I like the man's t-shirt and the very prominent police officer's gun.  The man in the doorway adds to the story as he watches the police. The

second photo gives context to the first.

Below: more police, this time in D.C. Residents are going about their daily 

routine  ignoring this man's plight even with four or five police officers in on this arrest.

Sleeping off a Hard Night at The Fringe

Model A on the cranberry Bog we used to own

A Bog on the Bog

Middleboro, Massachusetts, our old hometown 

Little Harbor Beach, Mass.

The Invisible Man, Union Station, D.C.

Woods Hole, Cale Cod. Along with Provincetown one of two of our favorite towns on Cape Cod.

Cambridge, Mass.

Elk Island in the Willamette River, Oak Grove, Oregon

Boston

Milwaukie, Oregon farmers market

Old abandoned Blue Heron paper mills by Willamette Falls.

Washington DC near Union Station

Portland OR

Lake Michigan

Nevada

Kornblatt’s in Portland

Goodwill store 

Buzzard’s Bay, MA from my kayak

1,000 years, tell that to Hillary...

Most recent: Fireworks viewed from the roof of the Court at Willamette View, Portland OR		Hal Brown		0Comment count	31View count	7/5/15
	The Blue Lagoon at Willamette View, Portland, Oregon		Hal Brown		0Comment count	6View count	7/3/15
	A Walk to Waterfalls		Hal Brown		0Comment count	31View count	6/29/15
	Repairing the leaks on the Willamette View ponds.		Hal Brown		0Comment count	7View count	6/23/15
	Purloined raspberries: A deer up close and personal		Hal Brown		0Comment count	12View count	6/23/15
	View from the 16 story OHSU building on Bond St. - Downtown Portland and the tram		Hal Brown		0Comment count	17View count	6/8/15
	Buzzards and Bins from Portland, Oregon		Hal Brown		0Comment count	31View count	5/31/15
	In and Around, People and Produce, Milwaukie Farmers Market and more		Hal Brown		0Comment count	58View count	5/22/15
	Blooms around the house in the second season of spring.		Hal Brown		0Comment count	17View count	4/12/15
	River Rat: Despite the hysterical cacophony of two whining dogs and desperately trying to paw through the window, Mr. Squirrel got his belly fully of seeds this morning.		Hal Brown		1Comment count	46View count	3/24/15
	Early warmth and sunshine at Willamette View bring color to the campus		Hal Brown		0Comment count	82View count	3/23/15
	Bright morning sun on circular spider webs They are beautiful but deadly parlors for some naive fly. More photos to come if I'm lucky enough to catch a glimpse of the spider, and even its prey. This web was likely woven by an orb spider. Read more about them here.		Hal Brown		0Comment count	14View count	3/7/15
	Portland, Oregon's new Oak Grove Tri-Met Light Rail StationMarch 1, 2015LINK When I first saw the parking garage under construction, which is less than a mile from where I live, I thought the angled steel poles were going to be structural. I wondered why they weren't perpendicular. Now I know that they are meant to be art, representing reed grass. Readers from Portland will know that much of the o		Hal Brown		0Comment count	31View count	3/1/15
	Not quite springTime for some old beach photosLittle Harbor Beach (Wareham) and Cape Cod That's a hacky sack ball Going,and coming back Sniffing this way and that way let's settle down and get this meeting started.		Hal Brown		0Comment count	24View count	2/27/15
	Cranberries frozen in time Photos taken by Susan Jennifer Howe. The Howes bought my wife and my old house in Middleboro, Massachusetts. We used to own and farm these cranberry bogs, which were in back of our house. Click to enlarge		Hal Brown		0Comment count	11View count	2/24/15
	Some more photos An eagle flying above the Willamette River, taken from Riverview dining room at Willamette View, Portland OR Another perspective Crows in the morning fog, from my house		Hal Brown		0Comment count	33View count	2/15/15
	To print and frame or not: Photos from my archives Edit | View | Share | Delete		Hal Brown		0Comment count	41View count	2/2/15
	Willamette View Campus Perspectives		Hal Brown		0Comment count	26View count	1/29/15
	Shirtsleeves in JanuaryWhile I can't say today was a respite from a harsh winter (considering the blizzard blanketing the northeast); the springlike weather was a welcome chance to take Mac and Duff (my Westies) for a walk around the Willamette View campus. Here are some photos.  Below: An early start on renewing the River Walk path where the trees were cut down.  Below: You can see where the		Hal Brown		0Comment count	41View count	1/25/15
	My Hawaii photos, from paper, 1959I spent the entire summer here when I was 15. My aunt's Studebaker convertible. That's my aunt in our backyard.  Above three - my Aunt Grace's house above a garage on the end of Kalakaua at Coconut. A WWII bunker near the Doris Duke estate. Waikiki From the air on arrival. Unbeknownst to me, I took a photo of my aunt's house, next to the unfinished  condo. Dia		Hal Brown		0Comment count	8View count	1/23/15
	Just a few miscellaneous photos around Willamette View taken this week: from berries and balls to the waterfall (which only flows when there's be a lot of rain). click to enlarge below		Hal Brown		0Comment count	9View count	1/19/15
	An early website that changed the cranberry industry Cranberry Stressline LinkSo, if you've been wondering about my connection to cranberries - besides having grown them for 25 years.... Even before the cranberry industry collapsed and began making the news, my late wife Betty had been selected by Ocean Spray as a spokeswoman. She had a two page profile in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine (a full		Hal Brown		0Comment count	22View count	1/12/15
	BettyNov. 16, 1944 - Jan. 11, 2010 "It doesn't get any better than this." The Goat Photos here		Hal Brown		0Comment count	11View count	1/11/15
	Now, for something differentIn honor of the new year52 photographs A more or less random compilation of photos, most of which I haven't posted on the blogs. They aren't my best, however some are interesting or pretty to (click to enlarge) look at, and all can be used by anyone as screen savers. They are all taken near where I lived in Middleboro, Massachusetts. Some are in Boston, the Cape Cod Can		Hal Brown		0Comment count	21View count	1/10/15
	More goats at Willamette ViewEating their favorite delicacy, blackberries, for yet another day. On the banks of the muddy Willamette River in Portland Oregon, 20 goats make fast work converting a tangle of prickly blackberry bushes to organic fertilizer. Every goat has a name. I rather doubt there's a "Billy," or even a "Gruff." I'll have to ask the Goat GirlCasey Brewer West Side Goat Girl LLC 36