I meant to go skiing when Raven caught my eye, flirting in the trees behind the parking lot at Timberline Lodge. Were there ten, twenty, maybe thirty? I watched from the car. They flew with delight, diving and rising, weaving in and out and around snow covered trees. At the stand of old growth Douglas [...]
A picture is worth a 1,000 words. Building trust with your clients is priceless. How photography can increase your bottom line. Frequently the first contact prospective clients have with your business is online. The image you project and the photographs you use can make the difference between them contacting you, or moving on. Website [...]
It doesn't snow often in the lower elevations of the Pacific Northwest, but when it does opportunity abounds for beautiful photography. Silver Falls State Park, and the Trail of Ten Falls is a favorite. Ten major waterfalls are accessible in an 8 mile loop, four of them over 100 feet high. If you’re going out [...]
On a photography assignment to document the progress of a newly restored wet land area, curiosity led me into a nearby abandoned building where I found these gems. Copyright 2013 Adam Bacher. All rights Reserved – Absolutely NO usage without prior authorization. On location photography, Portland Oregon photographer Adam Bacher.
Soccer fans, the Timbers Army, celebrating when the Portland Timbers scored the winning goal in a game vs. the LA Galaxy, on a very rainy Saturday in Portland, Oregon. Copyright 2013 Adam Bacher. All rights Reserved – Absolutely NO usage without prior authorization. On location photography, Portland Oregon photographer Adam Bacher.
Up late editing and I came across this sunrise, taken from the airplane window over the Sahara Dessert on my first trip to Rwanda, September 25th, 2007. Sunrise over Sahara Dessert from Airplane Copyright 2013 Adam Bacher. All rights Reserved – Absolutely NO usage without prior authorization. On location photography, Portland Oregon photographer [...]
What makes you feel nostalgic? How about Johnny Cash? or black and white film? or both? Lower left image - Johnny Cash singing with his wife, June Carter Cash. Copyright 2013 Adam Bacher. All rights Reserved – Absolutely NO usage without prior authorization. On location photography, Portland Oregon photographer Adam Bacher.
My co-photographer, Christa Taylor, was proposed to by a stranger during our photography assignment yesterday for Triquint Semiconductor. Team members from Triquint couldn't keep their feet on the ground after hearing the news. Copyright 2013 Adam Bacher. All rights reserved. On location photography, Portland Oregon photographer Adam Bacher.
Conductor and Train, ©2013 Adam Bacher Sixteen Tons: Tennessee Ernie Ford “Some people say a man is made outta mud A poor man’s made outta muscle and blood Muscle and blood and skin and bones A mind that’s a-weak and a back that’s strong You load sixteen tons, what do you get Another day [...]
Yesterday, a soldier stationed in Afghanistan made his final trip home – American Airlines flight 1037. Passengers at gate C-2, Dallas Fort Worth airport, stood in silence when his flagged draped coffin arrived on the tarmac. They watched as the flag was folded with precision into a thick triangle, and his coffin slowly disappear into [...]
The historic Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House, in New York City’s financial district, is currently the home of The National Museum of the American Indian. The Customs Service occupied the building from 1907-1973. A hub for international trade, activity in this rotunda was engulfed with frenetic energy integral to the economic engine of American capitalism. [...]
With time lapse photography and some whimsical music, even the weariest hiker can look like he's having fun. Sometimes getting to camp means going the extra mile -uphill. Four thousand feet uphill. It took six hours and six miles of backpacking to reach the base of the Sahale Glacier, in the North Cascades National Park. [...]
Mountain goat on the side of Sahale Peak, North Cascades National Park, Washington. The mind’s internal chatter is quieted, miles into the wilderness of the North Cascades National Park. Completely disconnected from the electronic busy-ness below. Not a care in the world. Face to face is the only communication for the coming days. [...]
Portraits of Haiti - Man with Ice Copyright 2011 Adam Bacher, All rights reserved. Absolutely NO usage without prior authorization.
Portraits of Haiti - Man at Gas Station Copyright 2011 Adam Bacher, All rights reserved. Absolutely NO usage without prior authorization.
Portraits of Haiti - Man with Cows in Water Copyright 2011 Adam Bacher, All rights reserved. Absolutely NO usage without prior authorization.
Portraits of Haiti - Cap Haitian 01 Copyright 2011 Adam Bacher, All rights reserved. Absolutely NO usage without prior authorization.
Portraits of Haiti - School Girl in Street Copyright 2011 Adam Bacher, All rights reserved. Absolutely NO usage without prior authorization.
Portraits of Haiti - Woman with Eggs Copyright 2011 Adam Bacher, All rights reserved. Absolutely NO usage without prior authorization.
Man in street with bus Copyright 2011 Adam Bacher, All rights reserved. Absolutely NO usage without prior authorization.
At 6:00 am Monday morning a team of 18 doctors, nurses, clinicians, and founding members of the Haitian Caribbean American Organization of Texas (HACAOT), will leave for the first of five days to different regions of Cap Haitian, the second largest city in Haiti. Each day the group will set up and break down a [...]
Once in a while you find a place on earth that becomes your very own. A place undefined. Waiting for you to bring your color, your self. A place untouched, unspoiled, undeveloped. Raw, honest, and haunting. No one, nothing is telling you how to feel or who to be. Let the mountains have you for [...]
We sit down together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. - Li Po
At 5:30 in the morning, myself and an interpreter were dropped off by motorcycle taxi to a family’s house. Their children are sponsored by the Portland, Oregon, based Itafari Foundation. Unreachable by car, transportation within the village is on foot or by an old gearless bikes for the lucky few. I spent my time there [...]
In Kamboo we visited a primary school.It has 7 teachers for almost 500 students. After speaking with the head teacher I was given permission to photograph in the school. Children are packed in tight, but get along well with one another. Before I left Iwas asked for two things. First, could [...]
Makindu Children’s Center also serves the needs of the outlying communities of Kamboo and Twaandu. I was taken to visit Kamboovia a 30 minute ride on a motorcycle over dirt roads, then paths.Other than visitors, Kamboo has a few motorcycles.Those who are fortunate have bicycles. There’s no electricity or [...]
Makindu Children’s Center functions as a community resource facility, providing training and guidance in nutritional, agricultural, and health concerns, including HIV/AIDS education and awareness.MCC isdedicated to empowering those they serve, helping them become independent, self sufficient, and valued contributing members of society. The program is a day resource facility, where children [...]
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On the main road between Nairobiand the port city of Mombasa, is the town of Makindu – population 15,000. The economy relies on scarcely more than business from trucksferrying goods toand from the port.Makindu is hot, flat, and exceptionally arid.Seasonal rains, meager in the best of times,have failed completely this year.Crops planted last October, wither [...]
In Rwanda the primary mode of transportation is two of feet, two legs, and the need to get from here to there. Come to the country and you will see people walking everywhere; all times of morning, day, and night. The loads they carry are diverse and the attachment point is the typically the top [...]
Joy Ndungutse and Janet Nkubana are Rwandan women who were born in a refugee camp in Uganda. In 2003 they started a business assisting women to manufacture their own goods and sell them internationally. They began with six women working under a tree. Their task was to weave baskets of a quality that would stand [...]
In 2002, while volunteering at a Orphanage of 100 boys, Ezra Kwizera, and his wife Mona, “felt a call to minister to the orphans of the 1994 Genocide to hopefully prevent them from becoming another army seeking revenge.” Many widows of the genocide brought their children to orphanages with hopes of giving them a better [...]
Gold Standard (noun): A monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of gold. Price of an ounce of gold - $794.00. Amount of money holiday shoppers estimate they will spend this year - between $800.00 and $1,000.00 per shopper. Goat Standard (noun): A standard whereby [...]
