Portland summer fun

I spent this week teaching "street photography" to middle school and high school students -- and I managed to snap a few keepers for myself. Here's a couple from Gresham High School. There was some sort of summer community program going on at the school-- and we wandered onto campus into the pool area...


and then out back onto the track.


a couple of women: one shot from the MAX lightrail (headed into downtown Portland)...


the other a storefront in the Hollywood neighborhood.


and these last four from today at the fountain in downtown Portland along the riverfront.

More southern color

Here's a couple more from my trip to the south -- folks tubing on the Chattahoochee river in Helen, GA (or at least getting ready to go tubing, and returning on the bus to the parking lot aftewards... )




here's the inside of a 19th century church in Louvale, GA.... thinking of Walker Evans' church shots from the south.


saw this storefront window in Lumpkin, GA.


last for today: rode with my friend jimmy to get some charcoal for our cookout -- up in White Co. Ga, here's the view across the dashboard of his F150...

Hillary Atiyeh - undewater hotspring shots

Here is a wonderfully evocative and lyrical ongoing series of underwater (and above water) photos shot by Oregon photographer, Hillary Atiyeh, showing people at regionally popular Breitenbush hotsprings (click here). You can also check out here other work at her website (click here).

photo © Hillary Atiyeh

A few digital shots from yesterday

I went to meet my friend Chris for a drink down by the Union Pacific railyard -- and we took a walk afterwards as the sun set along the tracks.... this was my favorite shot.


here's a somewhat more "cliche" shot of the railyard -- Chris and I waiting for a train to pass to get back to our cars....


and this one, looking in the opposite direction as we crossed back to our cars -- wires from the light rail set against industrial buildings...


and this last one -- while we were sitting in the bar's outside seating, shot this sneak-a-peak shot thru the window inside...

Southern Landscapes

For today I have 12 landscape shots from my southern trip. This first is from Butler, GA


below: Cusseta, Ga


Northwest Atlanta near Marietta Blvd


stranded shark (damage from Hurricane Charlie) in Ft. Myers Beach, FL.


Omaha, GA.


Lumpkin, GA


Sanibel (causeway), FL


near Ft. Myers Beach, FL


RR tracks in NW Atlanta near Marietta, Blvd


late afternoon field across from my friend Jimmy's house in White Co., GA


sunrise in White county, GA


and last for today: sunrise at friend Carey's house near Omaha, GA.

Southern Color

I just returned from a 10-day trip to Georgia and Florida. Shot 18 rolls of color. Here are few of my favorites. This first one (above) is "James" -- a kid at a gas station in Alabama, near "Cottonton, Ala." -- just across the Georgia line -- giving me advice about where i should go to snap some photos --- I thought that him looking through my window was better than the things he was suggesting...


this kid above is in Cleveland, Georgia at the Huddle House -- hoping to win a prize in the game where you try to grab a toy with the crane. his mother got it on the 5th try!

below is Lucille -- my dear friend who lives in White County Georgia. this July she will be 92 years old! I spent an hour sitting with her on her front porch.


This shot below is a homeless man in downtown Atlanta, near where I rented my car.


And last for now... on the side of Ga. Hwy 400 near Dawsonville -- a man standing out in the morning sun advertising a church yard sale along the highway.

Collector's Specials for June

Announcing my Collector's Monthly Specials for June: I am offering two prints from my summer's bus trip across America in 2000.

In case you didn't know, I traveled for two consecutive summers across the US by Greyhound bus and hitchiking -- in 2000 and 2001. The 2000 trip was shot all in black and white, and the 2001 trip was in color. The color work from 2001 appears in my book One Summer Across America, while many of the black and white images from 2000 are in my book Rabbit.


The first print I am offering (shown above) is "Self-portrait in barbershop window -- Whitefish, Montana, 2000." This is an unframed, 11" x 14" fiber-based, silver-gelatin print, signed and editioned by me (2/25), printed immediately upon my return from that trip, in the fall of 2000. Included with the print is a signed copy of One Summer Across America:,
all for only $200!!

(I will deliver in the Portland, Ore. area, elsewhere shipping charges are additional)

The second print (above) is a large, framed 16" x 20" print. It's in a black wood 21"x 27.5" frame -- ready to hang! As with all my black and white prints, it's a fiber-based silver-gelatin print (archivally printed by me), signed and editioned (4/25), and it's matted with an acid free 4-ply rag mat. Plus I'll throw in a signed copy of One Summer Across America:,
all for only $350!!

(I will deliver in the Portland, Ore. area, elsewhere shipping charges are additional)

These are two of my signature images from my Greyhound bus trip across America in 2000* -- both at very special one-of-a-kind prices! Both include a copy of my first published book, One Summer Across America. So grab these deals while you can, and own an original "Abrahamson." It's a good investment (better than the stock market!), and you will be helping me to continue to produce new work!