The recent Labor Day holiday afforded us an opportunity to sneak south to our Cascadia neighbor for a long weekend. Only a few hours away by car--or a few extra when traveling with a 9-month old--Portland offered an opportunity to take out my trusty FUJIFILM X-T2 and capture a bunch of exposures.
Always looking for ways to catalyze creativity when on a photographic walkabout, I set off looking for "interesting" patterns in the buildings, facades, and environs of the downtown. Like most such endeavors, you start off slow, tentatively releasing the shutter once or twice, but then chimping repeatedly to see if there's anything in what you've shot. Fortunately, between going bananas photographing my daughter and finally getting a chance to air out my FUJINON XF50-140mm F/2.8 lens meant it didn't take long to get going.
Here are a few samples of the exposures captured during this excursion.
"Curtain" - An onimous scene is cast upon the hotel room window by this quasi-transparent cloth.
"Curved" - Downtown PDX buildings can create the illusion that diamonds turn into oblong shapes.
"Armor Plates" - Places along Willamette River waterfront presents interesting subjects.
"In and Out" - Portland parking places presents photographic possibilities.
"Mirrored" - Sometimes the object you seek is hidden in another.
"Shadows and Steel" - Beneath one of the many steel structures that gives Bridgetown its nickname.
"Ruled" - Modern buildings are lined (or ruled) from bottom to top.