• The meaning of Life

    Welcome to Continuum Photography's Life blog. If you've ever asked yourself what the meaning of Life is, you're not alone. For us the answer is documenting the art and beauty in our day to day moments and to discuss the business behind being a professional photographer. Continuum Photography is a team of wedding and portrait photographers who reside in Portland, Oregon and photograph events nationwide. The Life blog represents our non-wedding photographic work - travels, portrait sessions, commentary, and editorial photography that didn't quite have a home on our wedding blog. So we brought it here! If you have thoughts or questions concerning a post here, we love comments. And if you're interested in contacting us regarding photographing your event, just fill out the information on the contact page!

Life Moves On… Just to a different URL

Just in case anyone is out there still following life.continuumphotography.com, we wanted to let you know that we are no longer making updates to this particular URL.  All of our future Life updates will be made at continuumphotography.com/life.  We have lots of new content on there, so check it out!

- Josh

100 Nights Project | Night 5

This is another great location in NW Portland that I scouted for a recent senior session, that I decided would look great at night. We had a really great night weather wise, and even with sunset not even beginning until after 9pm shooting night exposures during the summer is pretty nice. Mark and Kevin joined me on this evening.

- Josh

“submissive dominant”

“the fortress”

“empty street” & “r x r”

“ghost in the machinery”

“the hot seat” & “c&j steel yard”

“you are never alone”

“solar night”

“looking around corners” & “E”

“shade 2001″ & “grass sways in the late night air”

“montgomery park” & “closed in by open spaces”

“our ships come in”

“your name there”

“what goes on in there”

“constructing reflections”

“two blue”

“multi linear”

“looking through windows”

“one day the weeds will extinguish the lights” & “under the microscope”

“risk for reward”

“fenced out”

100 Nights Project | Night 4

Awhile back on a scout for locations for senior shoots, I discovered that the industrial area in NE Portland that we had previously visited on Night 3 actually had a lot more going on for it a little further down the road than we had ventured. So this time I went back with Kevin, Mark, and Jos.  We had a great time photographing this spot.

- Josh

“night shift”

“the balcony” & “the rail yard”

“doorway”

“unidentified object”

“mysterious warehouse I” & “mysterious warehouse II”

“doors and dust”

“photographing the railyard”

“reserved for you know who”

“jos and the cyclones” & “razor wire”

“slashbuster” & “beyond the fence”

“tracked”

Fourth of July Along the Willamette River

Fourth of July on the Portland, Oregon waterfront. Hope everyone had a nice fourth! Melissa and I didn’t really get our act together in time to be social, but we do live within walking distance to the fireworks which is pretty cool. This year I attempted to spice up my normal attempt at photographing the explosions by doing some stuff with my tilt/shift lens, purposely out of focus stuff, and some light trails.

- Josh

100 Nights Project | Night 3

Twilight  rural, and rural industrial night exposures in Dundee, Oregon. On this particular night, the shoot probably could have better been titled 100 Twilights, as most of the photos we took were before the sun went down.  Mark and I had headed south to meet our friend Kevin in Dundee, which is a rural area about an hour outside of Portland.  We learned a few things that day.  First, the coolest things to potentially photograph are on private property or in an area where you can’t easily pull over.  Second, people in Dundee are obsessed with stopping and asking you if you need an ambulance.  And third, the police once they have established you are not trying to start an Al Qaeda terror cell in rural Oregon, and pretty interested in photography in general.

- Josh

“slender branches” & “deterioated”

“overtaken” & “only time will tell”

“speed 50″ & “binoculars”

“your natural defenses” & “golden gate”

“the edge of shelter” & “nail in a board”

“tired” & “deflated”

“in honor of things blossoming”

“hazy and golden,” “the big game hunter,” & “not a negative space”

“fields trees and rolling clouds” & “twilights blurred”

“remnants of the day”

“rural industry at night”

“blades” & “do you need an ambulance?”

“painted”

“3 lights”

“the water’s clear and innocent”