Monthly Meeting: Mike Peters
“I have been a working photographer since 1979. The main focus of my work is people, photographed in a context that helps tell a story. In all this time I’ve developed my own voice as a visual communicator that is authentic to who I am and where I come from. I consider myself a passionate observer.
The inspiration for my photographs comes from the world around me. Throughout my career, I have managed to balance my professional responsibilities by always being engaged in work that explores my interests and allows for full personal expression of how I felt about those interests. For me the photographs I make for myself are the most important images I create.”
In-Person Print Review Session
PPF coordinates a monthly, in-person print discussion group. Participants are encouraged to bring up to 5 prints to discuss with the group. Each person who shares photos will be provided with a few minutes to discuss their work. The audience is encouraged to ask questions and provide constructive feedback.
These meetings are the first Monday of the month and open to the public. However, you must be a member in order to present prints.
Monthly Meeting: Phillip Hernandez
Phillip Hernandez is a California-based surf photographer whose work explores the tension between motion and stillness in coastal life. With a background in documentary storytelling, Phillip brings a photojournalistic approach to surf photography—favoring mood, nuance, and human connection over high-performance spectacle.
In-Person Print Review Session
PPF coordinates a monthly, in-person print discussion group. Participants are encouraged to bring up to 5 prints to discuss with the group. Each person who shares photos will be provided with a few minutes to discuss their work. The audience is encouraged to ask questions and provide constructive feedback.
These meetings are the first Monday of the month and open to the public. However, you must be a member in order to present prints.
In-Person Print Review Session
PPF coordinates a monthly, in-person print discussion group. Participants are encouraged to bring up to 5 prints to discuss with the group. Each person who shares photos will be provided with a few minutes to discuss their work. The audience is encouraged to ask questions and provide constructive feedback.
These meetings are the first Monday of the month and open to the public. However, you must be a member in order to present prints.
Monthly Meeting
Our featured speakers are typically accomplished photographers from throughout the US and beyond. The monthly meetings also include a “photo challenge” segment, in which all current PPF members are invited to submit photos that reflect a specific theme. These meetings are the Third Monday of the month and open to the public.
In-Person Print Review Session
PPF coordinates a monthly, in-person print discussion group. Participants are encouraged to bring up to 5 prints to discuss with the group. Each person who shares photos will be provided with a few minutes to discuss their work. The audience is encouraged to ask questions and provide constructive feedback.
These meetings are the first Monday of the month and open to the public. However, you must be a member in order to present prints.
In-Person Print Review Session
PPF coordinates a monthly, in-person print discussion group. Participants are encouraged to bring up to 5 prints to discuss with the group. Each person who shares photos will be provided with a few minutes to discuss their work. The audience is encouraged to ask questions and provide constructive feedback.
These meetings are the first Monday of the month and open to the public. However, you must be a member in order to present prints.
In-Person Print Review Session
PPF coordinates a monthly, in-person print discussion group. Participants are encouraged to bring up to 5 prints to discuss with the group. Each person who shares photos will be provided with a few minutes to discuss their work. The audience is encouraged to ask questions and provide constructive feedback.
These meetings are the first Monday of the month and open to the public. However, you must be a member in order to present prints.
St. Paul Rodeo
St. Paul Rodeo - Wednesday July 2nd at 9:00 a.m. The St. Paul Rodeo has been happening for 90 years. We will meet at 9 AM at the entrance to the St. Paul Rodeo on River Road near the ticket office. Slack is a free event occurring every morning during the rodeo where people who have not qualified for the main event in the evening can compete and try to make it into the evening’s event. There are few spectators and no restrictions on cameras (like there are in the evenings), so you can take photos to your heart’s content! Please contact Steve Long smithlon@icould.com if you plan to attend.
https://www.stpaulrodeo.com/p/about/rodeo/slack---timed-events2021
Breakfast on the Bridges
Breakfast on the Bridges - Friday June 27 at 7:30 a.m. on the West side of the Tilikum Bridge, under the Red Balloons statue at the junction of S. Bond Avenue multi-use path and the bridge. This organization offers free continental breakfasts to bike commuters on several of the bridges downtown Portland. Great way to take environmental portraits and get early morning shots on the bridge.
Please contact Mike Burgess burgess88@comcast.net if you plan to attend.
Monthly Meeting: Jarred Decker
My name is Jarred Decker and I am a photo and a fine art printer as well as a photographer in Portland. I really look forward to talking to the group about the print process, different mediums, sheens, archival quality, and file prep, as well as my journey from a photographer a fine art printer after realizing how much more powerful my photos were printed vs looking at them on a screen.
I’m also excited to answer any questions people have about the mentioned topics. I absolutely love sharing my knowledge and helping guide people through what can be a really overwhelming process.
In-Person Print Review Session
PPF coordinates a monthly, in-person print discussion group. Participants are encouraged to bring up to 5 prints to discuss with the group. Each person who shares photos will be provided with a few minutes to discuss their work. The audience is encouraged to ask questions and provide constructive feedback.
These meetings are the first Monday of the month and open to the public. However, you must be a member in order to present prints.
Monthly Meeting: Raina Stinson
Raina Stinson is an internationally award-winning photographic artist known for her evocative storytelling through imagery. Originally from the United States, she has spent the past seven years living in Provence, France and is a full-time resident.
Portland Transmission Spring Classic
If you enjoy photographing classic cars and hot rods, you’ll want to join us for this year’s Portland Transmission Spring Classic. It is a free event, always held the Saturday before Mother’s Day.
Dalles Mountain Ranch
Join other PPF members for a photo outing at Dalles Mountain Ranch, part of the Columbia Hills Historic State Park in Washington (basically across the Columbia River from the Dalles).
Monthly Meeting: Julie Moore
A self-taught lens based artist, Julie has been creating her evocative style of art for just over a decade. Her images are sublime. They have a delicate, sweetly poetic and moving quality that stirs the senses and touches the heart.
Monthly Meeting: Members Night
Alternative Processes with PPF members Carla Christian and Paul Cunningham
EVERGREEN AVIATION & SPACE MUSEUM
Join other PPF members for a photo outing to the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum is in McMinnville, Oregon.
BATTLE GROUND LAKE STATE PARK
The park is at the base of the Cascade Mt Foothills. The beautiful surroundings offer a walkable trail around the lake, covered by a 280-acre vergreen forest. The lake is of volcanic origin. Check it out online. https://parks.wa.gov/find-parks/state-parks/battle-ground-lake-state-park
Roxanne Overton
We’re excited to welcome Portland native Roxanne Overton as our next speaker at the upcoming Portland Photographer’s Forum Zoom meeting. After decades away, Roxanne is thrilled to be back in Portland and part of the PPF community, which she describes as a wonderful and welcoming space for meeting, sharing, and discussing photography.
Aerial Photography by Carolyn Cheng
My art practice started 10 years ago. Throughout that period, my practice has evolved through unexpected and intentional shifts, starting as a travel photographer, shifting to landscape photography and then to botanical photography during the pandemic, and now with a focus as an abstract aerial landscape photographer sharing stories about the human impact on our landscapes. My work re-examines traditional elements of landscape photography from an abstract aerial perspective by transforming water, sand and earth, to investigate aspects of the feminine sublime in both the natural and altered worlds.
Artistic Floral Photography with Jackie Kramer
Join Jackie as she takes you on a journey through her digital garden where she will share a variety of techniques that she uses to bring out the character in floral subjects. She will show examples and discuss how to reflect the personality of a flower through a variety of techniques, such as selective focus, shoot-throughs, abstracts, multiples, textures and more. Hear her rationale as it applies to decisions in the field pertaining to selection of the subject, background, approach, composition, lighting, exposure, and depth of field and leave inspired to pick up your camera and follow your own creative voice.
About Jackie: Jackie has been photographing the natural world, with an emphasis on flowers since high school. Jackie is a Lensbaby Ambassador and KelbyOne instructor who has received international acclaim for her images. Her work has been published in numerous online and print magazines. Jackie's true passion is to encourage people to live their legacy, which she does primarily through her Facebook group, Phlorography - Artistic Floral Photography, with thousands of passionate floral photographers from around the world. She is committed to supporting other photographers and using photography as a medium to build relationships and enrich each other’s lives.
