Positive and Negative: Ferns

May 14, 2012. Powell Butte May 15, 2012. Powell Butte I’ve been watching ferns unfurl their beauty for the past several weeks. In places where the English Ivy hasn’t invaded and suffocated the understory, the ferns are now thick. Yesterday, while running on Powell Butte, I was mesmerized by the fluctuation of the dark shapes […]
May 15, 2012 | Categories:Explore, running | Tags: butte, freelance, labarge, photography, powell, running, tim, trail | Comments Off on Positive and Negative: Ferns
Biketobeerfest – Hopworks rings in the Fall

Bouldering Bike Bands Breaking Big Beers. Bizarro! Saturday was the third year for Biketobeerfest at Hopworks and it was quite a party. Rain fell, and in true Portland fashion, there was somber talk of the moisture marking the end of summer. Yet, those same people took some time to toss a bike, cheers on some […]
Sep 19, 2011 | Categories:beer | Tags: biketobeer, brewery, hopworks, labarge, oregon, photography, photojournalist, portland, tim | Comments Off on Biketobeerfest – Hopworks rings in the Fall
Golf Adventure in Oregon

Pacific Dunes near Bandon, Oregon OGA Golf Course near Aurora, Oregon A friend called the other day and announced he’d hit a hole-in-one that morning. It reminded me that several years ago, I had an assignment to photograph a gentleman who’d hit that once-in-a-lifetime shot. I made a portrait and moved along to my next […]
Sep 09, 2011 | Categories:assignments | Tags: aspen lakes, bandon, bend, golf, labarge, langdon, oga, pacific dunes, pacific trails, photographer, photojournalist, portland, tetherow, tim | 1 Comment »
Post Pickathon Post :: 2011

Lee Fields in the Galaxy Barn This year’s Pickathon music festival ended early Monday morning, more than three days ago. It’s been a crazy couple of days of clean up, downloading, more clean up, editing, visiting with friends and family and going out to see even more music. During Future Islands late night performance in […]
Aug 11, 2011 | Categories:pickathon | Tags: labarge, music photography, pickathon, portalnd, tim | Comments Off on Post Pickathon Post :: 2011
From farm to fame

Jill Andrews watches as The Avett Brothers warm up in the parking lot at Pickathon 2006 If the Avett Brothers pulled out their instruments and starting playing tunes in a parking lot at a music festival today, I believe there would be a few more people perched on that tailgate with Jill Andrews. But that’s […]
Feb 14, 2011 | Categories:music | Tags: avett, brothers, labarge, mumford, music, oregon, photography, portland, sons, tim | Comments Off on From farm to fame
The mightiest toe

I suddenly felt the dreaded sensation of my foot beginning to slip out from under me as I ran down a slick little hill this morning. It’s one of my favorite spots on the trail. There’s a bit of texture to the land, a creek at the bottom of the hill, trees, leaves, roots. I’ve […]
Feb 09, 2011 | Categories:running | Tags: fingers, five, labarge, photography, tim, vibrams | Comments Off on The mightiest toe
Snow Days

“This is the best vacation ever,” Leo announced. Jack agreed. Sara and I smiled. We hadn’t gone very far or done a whole lot or been gone very long. But as these guys get older, it seems they keep redefining what was, or is, the best ever. Leo’s face told the story on Saturday: a […]
Feb 01, 2011 | Categories:family | Tags: hoodoo, labarge, oregon, photography, portland, skiing, tim | 3 Comments »
Langhorne Slim – Hard to Miss

I knew this year Pickathon would be different than any previous: More bands, fewer sets by each band, more friends at the event than ever, more decisions. I was going to miss music and I wasn’t super happy about it. So looking at the schedule, I started to do triage. I mentally crossed out Langhorne […]
Dec 01, 2010 | Categories:music | Tags: editorial, labarge, langhorne, music, photography, pickathon, slim, tim | 1 Comment »
Big Mountain, Little Dog

With Mount Rainier hovering, Ryan Trebon rolls on during the Rapha Gentleman’s Race This summer, while photographing a bike race, I popped out of the woods and rounded a bend on Pittsburgh Road above the town of Saint Helens, Ore. Three beautiful volcanoes, Mount Rainier, Mount Saint Helens and Mount Adams, came into view. It […]
Nov 08, 2010 | Categories:family | Tags: labarge, oregon, photography, portland, tim | Comments Off on Big Mountain, Little Dog
Shadowy Future

I just overheard the boys, now five and three, chatting in the bath. “Jack,” Leo said, “dinosaurs are dead. People have never, ever seen them alive.” Saturday, while on a little adventure in The Columbia River Gorge, we found ourselves face to face with a ten foot long sturgeon named Herman. He’s the freak show […]
Oct 04, 2010 | Categories:family, the northwest | Tags: columbia, fish, hatchery, labarge, ladder, oregon, photography, portland, river, salmon, sturgeon, tim | Comments Off on Shadowy Future
Cyclocross: Alpenrose

Well they turned out in droves today for the first Cross Crusade race at Alpenrose Dairy. They negotiated the parking lot first. Then the check in. And then the real race began… Riders ran up the famed staircase, sprinted through the old-timey townsite, crept along the off-camber grass, bounced through bumpy pastureland and they finished […]
Oct 04, 2010 | Categories:cycling, sports, the northwest | Tags: alpenrose, cross, crusade, cyclocross, labarge, pdxcross, tim | 1 Comment »
The Heart

I was fine until I got about two blocks from the hospital. Suddenly I realized I needed to pull over and think. The slicing open of a man’s chest. The removal of a vein from his leg. The heart beating slowly. Very slowly. It wasn’t the first time I’d photographed open heart surgery. But there’s […]
Sep 26, 2010 | Categories:assignments, running | Tags: health, heart, labarge, life, oregon, photographer, photojournalist, portland, surgery, tim | Comments Off on The Heart
Unplugged

Just last night, Portland band Blitzen Trapper played an acoustic show at the Portland Playhouse in front of about 150 people. The audience was silent. The air was still. Vocal harmonies filled the room and sent chills across my skin. It was a different vibe than the past times I’ve seen the band. Those guys […]
Sep 15, 2010 | Categories:music | Tags: blitzen, labarge, music, oregon, photography, photojournalist, portland, tim, trapper | 1 Comment »
Rapha Gentlemen’s Race

Many times throughout the day, riders asked me if I was doing okay. How was I holding up to the heat, the miles. Was I getting enough water. It was, after all, closing in on 100 degrees and the race snaked through the Coast Range for 123 miles and more than 6000 feet of elevation […]
Aug 19, 2010 | Categories:assignments, cycling, sports, the northwest | Tags: chris, cycling, king, labarge, oregon, photography, photojournalist, portland, rapha, tim | 1 Comment »
Post Pickathon 2010

Langhorne Slim at Alberta Street Pub on Tuesday night Every year, something unplanned seems to happen a few days after Pickathon that brings a few folks back together to share a hug, a beer and some stories. Last night, Langhorne Slim and Woody Pines showed up at Alberta Street Pub and cranked out some tunes […]
Aug 12, 2010 | Categories:music | Tags: festival, labarge, oregon, photography, photojournalist, pickathon, portland, tim | Comments Off on Post Pickathon 2010
Summer of the Fish

First fish. Timothy Lake on Mount Hood, Oregon We’ve already spent a good chunk of these summer days out camping somewhere in the Cascades. Mount Hood, the Metolius River, the McKenzie River and two different Clear Lakes. The driving force and unexpected thrill of all of this has been watching Leo, 4, dive into fishing […]
Jul 14, 2010 | Categories:Explore, family, the northwest, travel | Tags: fishing, labarge, lake, oregon, photography, photojournalist, portland, tim, timothy, trout | Comments Off on Summer of the Fish
Passing Time

My dad, brothers and I heading out to go fishing in Colorado in 1977 Leo, age 4, with my dad in 2010 Photo editor and fellow PDXcrosser Mike Davis suggested on his blog just before Father’s Day to “make a picture of your dad, if you can, to remember him as he is this year, […]
Jul 01, 2010 | Categories:Explore, family, the northwest, travel | Tags: camping, colorado, father's day, labarge, oregon, photography, photojournalist, tim | 2 Comments »
Finally Summer

Huckleberry ice cream The sun was watching the calendar up here in the Northwest. On Monday, as if on cue, the weather and my attitude changed with the flip of the switch that sent us into Summer. High lake, still snowy We were up in the Cascades on the Metolius River when it happened. The […]
Jun 24, 2010 | Categories:Explore, family, the northwest, travel | Tags: editorial, fishing, labarge, metolius, oregon, photography, photojournalist, portland, river, tim | Comments Off on Finally Summer
Farewell Plum

Grazing, August 2008. Yesterday’s wind and rain storm knocked out a few young tomato plants around town for sure. And sadly, it took down my favorite old plum tree. Part of the curved trunk still stands, barely. The mass of the tree tumbled into the neighbor’s yard during an especially gusty few minutes in early […]
May 20, 2010 | Categories:family, neighborhood | Tags: labarge, oregon, photography, photojournalist, plum, portland, tim, tree | Comments Off on Farewell Plum
The House Concert

Walter Parks warms up before performing a house concert in southeast Portland. There’s the old debate about whether or not there is a “first annual” anything. But you see it all the time. First annual festival. First annual sale. First annual meeting. The AP style book sends a quick reminder that the word annual should […]
Apr 30, 2010 | Categories:music | Tags: concert, labarge, music, oregon, photograpy, photojournalist, portland, tim | Comments Off on The House Concert
Helping Hands

Leo, age four At least once a day, something happens around here that makes me kind of cringe. Markers, crayons, water, paint, sand and on and on. Something happens. And this is normal, I tell myself. I remember my mom sweeping the kitchen floor as the five of us would track pounds of dirt and […]
Apr 16, 2010 | Categories:family | Tags: children, labarge, photojournalist, portland, tim | 1 Comment »
Coming right up

Willie Nelson, 1998 I was just looking through the line up for the concert series out at The Edgefield. A couple of the shows should be a good time. Willie Nelson is, of course, legendary. I’ve seen him play a few times and it’s always interesting. Nothing beats the time I saw him play in […]
Apr 14, 2010 | Categories:music | Tags: avett, brothers, labarge, nelson, oregon, photography, photojournalist, portland, tim, willie | Comments Off on Coming right up
Recycling Day

LTD at the zoo Around here, we call it “Living the Dream.” It’s code for taking care of the kids. There’s a loose knit group of us and we LTD weekly at the zoo or at the museum. We hit the park or a coffee shop. We love our kids and our time together. And […]
Mar 10, 2010 | Categories:music | Tags: breathe owl breathe, labarge, music photographer, photography, photojournalist, tim | 2 Comments »
Just Looking

Berlin, 2009 I remember walking around in Chicago with an exchange student from Switzerland when I was maybe a freshman in high school. He took pictures of everything. Up, down, up, down. He was blown away by tall buildings and the people walking swiftly along the sidewalks beneath them. Berlin, 2009 I know the feeling. […]
Jan 12, 2010 | Categories:Explore, travel | Tags: berlin, labarge, mexico, photojournalism, portland, tim, travel | Comments Off on Just Looking