20’ x 10’ Cityscape on Conference Room Wall

I recently did a very large project: a 20 foot long by 10 foot high single image of downtown Portland, Oregon, as seen from the top of a tall building in the South Waterfront.  This post goes into quite a bit of detail about how I accomplished this and the challenges along the way. In general I’ve separated the techniques from the challenges, to give you the option to skim the narrative more efficiently if you’d like. THE REQUEST IRead more

Hello Big Beautiful World!

So. My name is Alene, and I’m a photographer. I live in the Pacific Northwest and I photograph many kinds of things. Landscapes, nature, people, buildings. . . I like to capture a moment in time and freeze it so we can look at it and see something more than we see as time speeds by. Sometimes that’s an expression on a loved one’s face, or the way light rakes across a building, or the way snow stacks on aRead more