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A Touch of Color

A bit of color goes a long way and in these five photographs I added what I felt to be just enough for the subjects to stand out. Photographed near the college town of Eugene, Oregon and out on the Oregon Coast at Coos Bay my objective was to come away with interesting images, colorizing did not play into the subject.

Colorize: to cause to appear in color.

Colorizing photographs has been around for at least 100 years for me a fraction of this time dating back to the 1990’s when I worked at photo lab in Southern California. Part of the printing process was to touch up color photographs with dust spots this is were it all began for me; soon I wanted to do more retouching so I gathered darkroom equipment, chemicals, fiber based paper, color paints and…

Each of the following pictures are panoramics so you may have to click image to view in full.

As a medical transit driver I cover an area from Portland, Oregon th the north, Roseburg, Oregon to the south, Blue River, Oregon along the McKenzie river and Cascade Mountain foothill, to Florence, Oregon on the Pacific Ocean. Taking my Panasonic DMC ZS 60 digital camera along on these drives there…

Saint Clair Shores, Michigan my hometown and the jumping off point for the Pykonen Family (there are six of us:  Mom and Dad, Sister Linda, Brothers David and Tad and myself) vacations to visit Dad’s relatives each August from 1959 through 1974 to the Copper Country on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.  Incorporated in 1951 Saint Clair Shores derives its name from nearby Lake…

Way back in 1999 I was living in Portland, Oregon and had signed up for a two year business course one of the classes was Ecomonics which I knew little before and retain little so many years later. The following is a true story that happened to me during the semester of that class, I hope you enjoy.

June, 1999 6pm. A warm evening breeze ruffles the state flag atop the Western Business…

A few months ago while researching for a short piece about Drain, Oregon I came across three black and white photographs, circa 1911, of a train trestle, a covered bridge, and a bird’s eye of view of the town the covered bridge was briefly mentioned in thatproject all set aside, forgotten. However, after the story was published, and the fact that I visit the town regularly for work, a strong…

With some free time one Thursday last December, 2019 I pack the camera and drive the Scion to no planned destination ending up along Main St., Springfield, Oregon. Traveling through the downtown core looking for photographic opportunities a causal glance into an open yet, fenced-in, area I observe a grand object rare to the West Coast: a Southern Pacific Diesel locomotive. My head is tossed…