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I noticed that Bruce, an ex–New Yorker, has been posting photographs of Portland, where he now lives, at his Facebook page. Bruce is known in particular for his luminous commercial photos of interiors, so I was really impressed by the moodiness of his personal Portland work. (His “Death by Cat” series is similarly dark and artful.) I wrote him to see if he’d send me some of the photos for the blog, and he suggested doing an Oregon Journal. Consider this his first installment.

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“Living in Portland means living with rainy winters. People here don’t put their bicycles away for the winter, nor the 6 or so luxury sports cars that live here among the 500,000 Prius’s. So I decided that I would not put away my camera. Instead I would photograph Portland in the rain all winter. I am also fascinated with how today’s digital cameras can see things at night that I have trouble seeing with my naked eye. I try to photograph every night. Unfortunately the weather hasn’t been cooperating, it’s been too dry!” —Bruce Wolf

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All photographs © Bruce Wolf.

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