
After a bit of a hiatus from blog updates, I just want to say I’m still here – still paddling along! I’ve been completing assignments for publications, non-profit organizations and businesses in the Portland, Oregon area more than fourteen years. It’s always a pleasure to meet new people, see new things and dig a little […]
Apr 22, 2019 | Categories:assignments, the northwest | Tags: freelance, oregon, photogra, photographer, portland | Comments Off on Paddling Along

I was just digging around my archive and found a few photos I hadn’t thought about in nearly ten years. I don’t follow boxing, but it it’s been nearly impossible to avoid news of last weekend’s “Fight of the Century” between Mayweather and Pacquiao and the controversy swirling around it. Looking at the images I wondered how […]
May 08, 2015 | Categories:assignments | Tags: boxing, mayweather, mitchell, portland | Comments Off on Just One Punch

“Portland hit two records for the date: With 1.8 inches of rain, the day easily surpassed the .16 of an inch Jan. 17 typically sees and just squeaked by the 1.76 inches that fell on the date in 1976.” The Oregonian All my past birthday runs have been packed up and rolled into one big trot […]
Jan 18, 2015 | Categories:Explore, run | Tags: forest park, portland, running, wildwood | 1 Comment »

Hopworks asked me to join the crew at the The Oregon Hophouse recently as they harvested hops. You can read my report and see more images at the Hopworks site here.
Sep 15, 2014 | Categories:assignments, beer | Tags: beer, brewery, hops, hopworks, oregon, portland | Comments Off on The Source of Hoppiness

Somewhere in the Northwest, temporarily tucked in a little black and yellow box with eleven of its buddies, is Hopworks bottle number one million which slid off the tiny bottling line late last week. I stopped by the brewery yesterday to shoot the new-and-improved 22-ounce Abominable Winter Ale bottle as it came off that same […]
Nov 13, 2013 | Categories:assignments, beer | Tags: hopworks, HUB, northwest, oregon, photography, portland | Comments Off on Million bottle milestone

On July 15th, nearly two hundred photographers fanned out across Oregon to make pictures of this incredible state as part of the Dayshoot +30 photography project. The intention was to create a ‘visual time capsule’ for the Oregon Historical Society much as photographers did on July 15, 1983. I raced around a little bit and explored […]
Sep 20, 2013 | Categories:cycling | Tags: cycling, dayshoot30, oregon, photography, portland | Comments Off on Dayshoot 30 Exhibit at PDX

The writer Pete Brook posed a question last year at Pickathon for a Wired.com story: What makes a good music photograph? I’m quoted in the story, and yet, a year later and another Pickathon in the books, I still don’t know the answer. But last weekend, as I scurried around and split my time making pictures, managing […]
Aug 13, 2013 | Categories:music, pickathon | Tags: music, oregon, photography, pickathon, portland | Comments Off on Post Pickathon 2013

My boys call each other Chicken Head sometimes when they’re arguing. I don’t really know if it’s an insult or not, so I let it slide. It could be worse. Their choice of words always reminds me of seeing blues man T-Model Ford work the crowd into a trance as he howled an extended version […]
Jul 17, 2013 | Categories:music, pickathon | Tags: blues, festival, music, oregon, pickathon, portland, t-model ford, tim labarge | Comments Off on T-Model Ford

Leo and I were off exploring last week when it snowed in Tucson. We wandered through the university campus, dodging stunned and amazed phone-wielding students as they communicated to the world that white flakes the size of raffle tickets were falling from the sky. We passed the morning looking at Native American baskets, the W. […]
Feb 27, 2013 | Categories:cycling | Tags: cycling, mount lemmon, oregon, photography, portland, snow, tucson | Comments Off on Mount Lemmon

I checked the temperature on my phone when I finished my run: 90 degrees. Strange. It was 33 degrees when I started. At one point during the run up Council Crest, the highest point in Portland at 1,071 feet , I did catch myself daydreaming about Summer. But it was certainly not 90 degrees on […]
Jan 18, 2013 | Categories:Explore, running | Tags: northwest, oregon, portland, running, trail | Comments Off on Seasonally Defective

I usually photograph many cyclocross races throughout the fall and early winter. This year, however, I only went to two in search of images. The good people at 1859 Magazine asked me to wander the course in search of racers and fans for a spread in the January/February issue. I couldn’t resist going to Bend […]
Jan 14, 2013 | Categories:assignments, cyclocross | Tags: bend, cross crusade, cyclocross, oregon, photography, portland | Comments Off on Cyclocross in 1859 Magazine

I still carry my little Canon camera each time I run, I’ve simply neglected to post images here. This little camera has brought me more joy than I predicted. I am usually excited to head out for run on some trail or another, but coming home with an image or two lets me relive it […]
Jan 14, 2013 | Categories:Explore, running, the northwest | Tags: northwest, oregon, photography, portland, trail running | Comments Off on Snapshots from the trail

Each Monday, we’ve gotten several inquiries: Where are the pictures? It’s true, we have not updated the site with a gallery of images from the weekend’s cyclocross race as we have done the past four seasons. PDXCROSS is on hold, you might say. A few of the contributors moved away last year, a few are […]
Oct 24, 2012 | Categories:cyclocross, the northwest | Tags: cyclocross, oregon, pdxcross, photography, portland | Comments Off on PDXCROSS – On pause

This dog came running up the hill barking at me, shattering the quiet dawn as I shuffled past grape vines loaded with fruit. Light was pooling in the east behind Mount Jefferson and Mount Hood, the sky was clear and deep blue and black, and I was suddenly trying to find a spot, any spot, […]
Aug 31, 2012 | Categories:assignments | Tags: country, dog, labarge, oregon, photography, portland, vineyard, wine | Comments Off on Good Morning

Kara Goucher, training in Portland After photographing an athlete, a musician, a chef or anyone doing anything, really, I simply want to see them succeed. I love running and admire what long distance runners go through. So I could barely contain my excitement when I told my wife I was going to go spend the […]
Aug 16, 2012 | Categories:assignments | Tags: kara goucher, olympics, oregon, photography, portland, running | 1 Comment »

The Barr Brothers on the Starlight Stage Here we are again. It’s been more than a week since Pickathon and I haven’t quite figured out what to say about the whole thing. It happens to me every year. But time passes and moments emerge. I was at some dear friends’ wedding the other night at […]
Aug 15, 2012 | Categories:music, pickathon | Tags: festival, music, photography, pickathon, portland, tim labarge | 1 Comment »

I’ve been watching and photographing the build up to Pickathon for the past two weeks, but it really only hit me last night that it’s about to happen. This amazing collaboration of talent will explode into action tomorrow. And though I’ve been saying “I can’t wait” for months, it’s only now that I really mean […]
Aug 01, 2012 | Categories:music, pickathon | Tags: 2012, farm, festival, labarge, music, oregon, pendarvis, pickathon, portland | Comments Off on Pickathon 2012 – Now it begins

Hopworks Urban Brewery Well I think it finally happened today. The sun came out. The temperature soared to 77 degrees. It felt like summer. A four pack of these 16-ouncers from Hopworks will seem all the more welcome. You’ll be able to stop by the store and grab a four pack of these brews – […]
Jun 27, 2012 | Categories:assignments, beer | Tags: aluminum, can, hopworks, HUB, ipa, lager, microbrew, oregon, photography, portland, tim labarge | Comments Off on Hopworks in a Can

This past Saturday, about 50 photographers fanned out across one square mile of downtown Portland as part of an entertaining ASMP project. The result is a collection of images that will be displayed somewhere down the line. My little quadrant was a few blocks in Southeast. I wandered, met a few folks, made some pictures. […]
May 22, 2012 | Categories:assignments | Tags: labarge, oregon, photography, photojournalist, portland, southeast, street | Comments Off on One Small Part of One Square Mile

This puppy thing. I thought it might be easier this time after experiencing the tiny years with a couple of boys. After all, you can put a puppy in a crate and walk away. They eat and drink when you put the bowl down. No diapers. Some mess. But no diapers. These critters can learn […]
May 16, 2012 | Categories:family | Tags: labarge, oregon, portland, puppy | Comments Off on Puppyville

May 10, 2012. Tryon Creek State Park The owlets sat shoulder to shoulder high in a maple that swung softly in the breeze. A big lens was pointing at them or we never would have noticed. They swayed in and out of the image displayed on the camera screen of the photographer who was excited […]
May 13, 2012 | Categories:Explore, running | Tags: barred, freelance, oregon, owl, photography, portland, running, trail | Comments Off on Barred Owl

May 1, 2012. Pittock Mansion, along the Wildwood Trail May 1, 2012. Stone House, along the Wildwood Trail Portland’s Forest Park is more than 5,000 acres of just that: forest. There are few structures within the park. So when I came upon these two historic landmarks on this morning’s run on the Wildwood Trail, I […]
May 01, 2012 | Categories:Explore, running | Tags: mansion, photography, pittock, portland, running, stone house, trail, wildwood | 2 Comments »

April 21, 2012. Mount Tabor Running up and down these hills and buttes in and around Portland, one is often following a long, gently curving trail that wraps its way around the slope. You go up, then down. Then maybe you do it again, and again. So while I know many of the twists in […]
Apr 24, 2012 | Categories:Explore, running | Tags: freelance, labarge, oregon, photography, portland, run, tabor | Comments Off on Around the bend

April 20, 2012. Tryon Creek State Park People ask: How far did you run? What was your pace? What was the elevation gain? How many calories did you burn? My answers are vague. I don’t know. I certainly can guess at some of this data, but mostly, I’m just happy to be out on the […]
Apr 20, 2012 | Categories:Explore, running | Tags: freelance, labarge, oregon, photographer, portland, run, trail | Comments Off on The Pace Setters