I promise, this time, no herring inside a hotdog bun. What can be more proper than London’s Tower Bridge under properly blue skies with white clouds?! If the bridge seems too square, symmetric, and parallel, let’s spin it a little bit. Literally, with a very big wheel. More to come …
Start with dessert as often as possible. The completed results have been deposited safely. All according to laws of gravity. Moving on to the next course. Ah, onion soup. Yes, it’s not only breakfast that tastes great in PDX. Bakeries loaded with fresh baguettes, i mean f-r-e-s-h, my dear brasserie de l’Alma. No yesterday’s loaves [...]
This one is from the group of universal languages. Music, sports, and the language of architecture. I remember dragging feet behind my parents on architectural excursions… A guide followed by twenty-thrirty grown-ups dressed in light summer clothes looking lost and at times quite silly-funny. Growing better, after another travel “to the galaxies far away”, i’m [...]
Summer accentuates highlights. Southern summer punches them intensely as the sun rolls up above the horizon in a blink of an eye. Rendering tartelette crème pâtissière au citron avec de la crème fouettée on white plate, starchy tablecloth of the same group of hues, outdoors. Adjusting, reinventing, and moving fast. Northern summer smears highlights over twenty-hour [...]
Left camera on a set and went free without strings. Ate and drunk. Got open face salmon from Seattle on rye bread with crème fraîche; put square white plate next to window. No studio light is the light, the genuine photon that worked its way to get here-there. Reflected, bounced of another light, made more [...]
Experiencing a special sea cruise: way up north, all the way across Pacific and to the left – Sea of Okhotsk. Nine points storms completely fulfill my “salty sea-dog” experience. The land is just within two-day reach and endless voids of water and air bring new rationalization to a sense of confined places. Finally comes [...]
Spent time finding and staying at places with views. Circled above Mt. Shasta for half hour while listening to the crew and an air trafic controller communications. Being at a destination is what counts. The process of getting there is an experience that signals, from time to time, to keep my expectations in check. Again, [...]
This turned out to be not what was planned. On its way to Hawaii the sun set clouds on fire and rolled glowing waves back towards shore. Freedom and wildness were nearly absolute when the modern Thoreau [Henry David] walked into the frame as “a direct dispensation from Heaven”. More to come ..
October. Lots of photographs, deadlines, pretty subjects, and raw business as usual. In October there are places where flowers are in full bloom, their colors are loud and delicate petals are aware of even most careful hands. Water and light mixed with airlike carbon and there we have it — Life. Plants just do it [...]
Wake up a crowd of ten thousand at 5 am, put on them running shoes, release in downtown in a couple of hours for some 26 miles, and witness the year’s largest running event. It’s bad to call people names, but I couldn’t resist the temptation to occasionally insert “Mr. Ferrari” and “Madam Porsche” while [...]
Every new visual concept involves knowledge of tools — either real tactile implements or electronic ones. This past week I worked on the project in which a tool was the central visual concept. In the process I thought about tools in general. I thought that there’s a myriad of tools, they are mastered for years, [...]
Love panoramas. They are unobstructed, continued representation of the whole scene. I learned the concepts and techniques back in my cinematographic years. In still imaging, panoramas accompany my portrait, event, and even macro projects; they are absolutely inescapable aspect of landscape or nature photography. Big bug’s mobility can, sometimes, be controlled by the temperature what [...]
It is clear that Madeleine’s Wine Festival’09 will become a new tradition. And here is why: For more photos of the event, follow at http://orders.tatianaboyle.com/wine_festival More to come…
There are car races, there are boat races, there are Olympic races, and marathons. And there’s Trioba race. The Trioba is when you know where you start but have a very general idea where you are heading: on bike, feet — often turning in “bush-whacking”, raft or kayak, with map and compass and without GPS. [...]
Well-worked hands deserve the entire frame. For 60 amazing years Gene Mason’s hands, mind, and talent have been building golf courses and creating education programs in Oregon and Washington. Skamania Lodge Golf Course, Persimmon Country Club, Crooked River Ranch are just too few to mention. For his photo-session we met on the golf course that [...]
Portraits, portraits, portraits. Lens is uncompromising. But without it I could never come that close to my subject’s face. As if anyone would let me! “I’ll call my make up artist!” Oh wait, you are safe. Let’s just have a conversation with light. You are the celebrity, the front cover, the world’s press-release. More to come [...]
This young lady is an aspiring LPGA player. She made her putt and “went” to the next tee. Asking about her handicap was just a crazy idea. I thought, I can joggle golf ball on the iron’s face 23 times, and hurried to trip the shutter. Yeah, it’s a space generation. More to come…
In my sensible years I was avoiding catching hornets ‘n such by hands, I’ve got used to bug nets. In special circumstances they were coming in multiple configurations. Web developers would call them “pro-versions”. Was bugged almost the entire day. This Extatosoma tiaratum [never again! just slipped off my tongue] is a size of large Starbucks tumbler. [...]
Biscotti with espresso, then berries in chocolate cup, and coffee mousse as breakfast dessert; More to come …
“Dorado” effortlessly held the stage in North Portland with its well-thought original fusion themes. This show was also a fusion of band with its audience – all were on stage – and therefore there was no room for lots of fancy camera moves in-between. Despite and regardless, “Dorado’s” sound, ingenuity, and musicianship [is this a [...]
W. Eugene Smith meant ANY light that was available. Church of Holy Apostles is a quaint community led by Father Dimitri. Our plan was to record the highlights of Easter celebration. I came with just a minimum-minimorum set up of lights and left the rest to improvisation. The church had one tall window which lit [...]
Oh, don’t ask. I mean the title of this post. We met with Angelina at her ballet home studio were she is practicing her pas balancé. After Angelina told me that she was dancing in “Swan Lake” when Russian ballet came to town, I was confident that I’ll be photographing the bright future of the [...]
David is busy; strategizing, projecting, worrying… He came for a session to update his small business website, “About Us” page, and add images to the company’s modest mailing campaign. Website?! Campaign?! These days?! Yep. He had a budget and a well articulated goal: clear and simple. I said I could work with it. When we run [...]
On Friday MLS has made a long-waited announcement about major soccer (football) team coming to Portland. The news has blown away all socks of Timbers fans. This aspiring wing player has decided to commemorate the event at the studio; our outside session is coming with warmer weather. More to come…
Earlier this year Martha Mollison, an acclaimed American-Australian videographer, and TBI (Tatiana Boyle Images) team worked on a set in Portland’s Pearl district to create some instructional photos for the new edition of her book. Here, a beautiful model Alesia demonstrates the position of camera operator relatively subject. Our photo-set assistant Lisa Driscoll is behind the [...]