Photo of the Day

During the dot-com boom I had a job as a travel photographer for an ill-fated company that wanted to create virtual tours of the entire world.  As I would travel around creating images and panoramic photos for the web, people would ask me “how does this company make money?” The questions would always make me laugh.  Of course I wasn’t laughing when the venture capital abruptly dried up and i was left without a job (or several owed paychecks) right before Christmas of the year 2000.  So desperate was I to find work taking pictures that I got a temp job photographing kids on Santa’s lap at the Lloyd Center Mall.  As you can see I had a real knack for bringing the best out of my subjects.

It’s hard to believe that was almost a decade ago.  My life has changed so much over the past nine years; I’ve gotten married, become a father and grown a business of my own. 

Over the past two day, there has been a strange, thick fog covering Portland.  It’s given a bit of a magical appearance to the city, especially at night.