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Kenneth Baldwin Davey, Grandpa, 1924-2013
Born July 18, 1924 in Sevenoaks, England: a Kentish Man. Served in the Corps of Royal Engineers in World War II, followed by a career as a quantity surveyor. Married Magda Lowy (1926-2010) in 1947. Moved to Kingston, Ontario, in 1957 and Toronto in 1965. Died March 6, 2013, in Toronto. Leaves behind three children, [...]
Ken Eshelman
Ken Eshelman has been on staff at the Fund for the Public Interest for nearly two decades. Never heard of the Fund for the Public Interest? You may have seen or heard from them, but not known it. To understand what the Fund is, here’s a bit of history: In the early 1970s, public interest [...]
Getting to know Cleveland
As you may know, Perrie and I will be moving to Cleveland in a few weeks. I’m really excited to explore the city, meet people, and get to know my way around. When we were there last weekend, I had a couple hours to walk around downtown and of course I brought my camera. I [...]
Carol Johnson
Here’s a story I photographed recently about Carol Johnson, a woman who makes art with dried flowers. She gives most of her work to Women of Purpose International, a Portland-based Christian organization supporting and empowering women in their relationships and through their spiritual gifts. Carol, 61, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in her 20s, and [...]
Jonathan House
A few weeks ago, I photographed the men’s and women’s basketball teams at Portland Community College. We made some nice portraits of the players and coaches but, as occasionally happens, my favourite was one of the test shots. This is Jonathan House, the fine photographer who helped me with the shoot, simply standing in for [...]
Jeanie Butler
For many of my assignments, I don’t know much about the subject (or the details of the article) in advance, and don’t have much control over the location of the shoot. I typically have a brief phone conversation with them to set the time and meeting place, and try to get some kind of idea [...]
Judy Donovan
I recently had an assignment to photograph Judy Donovan, the vice president of the Beaverton Historical Society. Her love of Beaverton history is personal as well as academic: Judy is a direct descendent of the Denney, Fanno, and Vose families, who were among the first to settle in Beaverton. Several roads, creeks and schools are [...]
Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge
The miracle of a four-day weekend (even if you work most of the day on Friday) is that you have time to do everything you normally do on the weekend, get caught up on some backlog of things you’ve been meaning to do, and still have time to go for a walk. So Sunday Perrie [...]
Recent hikes
I’ve been a bad blogger lately … I’ve been busy, though, with travels and shooting a bunch of exciting things that I can’t share with you yet. But here are some photos I can share, from a pair of hikes Perrie and I took recently. The first, a month ago today, was at the Wapato [...]
Toll House on the River Road
Back at the beginning of October, I got an assignment to photograph Portland art dealer Yves Edmond Le Meitour and his new painting, “Toll House on the River Road Between Lake Oswego and Portland.” Back in the early 1980s, Le Meitour tried to buy the 1884 painting by Cleveland Salter Rockwell, but the owner wouldn’t [...]
Pepe Rafael
I often write here about the fascinating people I get to photograph, but Pepe Rafael really stood above the others. Pepe, leader of the band Pepe and the Bottle Blondes and member of several other groups, is a natural entertainer. How’s this for a resume: after quitting school at 13 to work as a welder, [...]
Cape Cod
For the final day of our honeymoon, Perrie and I tackled Cape Cod. Leaving early from our place in Plymouth, we stopped for breakfast in Hyannis, where every business is connected with the Kennedy’s. “The Kennedy’s used to eat here.” “Jack Kennedy always got his hair cut here.” “Mrs. Kennedy bought a postcard here.” We [...]