The other day my significant other, sharp as ever, asked me why I have called my blog the “Streets of Nuremberg” when lately the contents is mostly about other places (I wonder how she found out, as she merely tolerates my photographic ventures she’s also not following my blog). Well, the answer is simple. Because Nuremberg is my hometown that I love, where I live and that I love to shoot in. And at the time I started and named my blog my work situation didn’t require all that much of travel. I work in the field of mergers and acquisitions (rather doing the integration part of it) and this is a very cyclic business, there are times with low project volume and then there are times like now where the job that pays the bills requires me to be on the road the majority of the time. And lately (and for the foreseeable future) one of my principal destinations is Portland, Oregon, as I work a major project there.
But here is the nice thing about my passion for photography and my blogging, I can take it everywhere I am. So this post is a perfect example about doing photography on a business trip. Working long hours when on project, I need to make use of the evenings to go out shooting. In this case I left the hotel around 9pm to take a tour through the nocturnal streets of the City of Roses, as Portland is also called. For more about my venture and for the images I invite you to continue reading and looking after the jump…
Staying at the Heathman Hotel I took my Olympus PEN-F with the mZuiko 12-40mm F/2.8 Top Pro Zoom and walked down Yamhill Street towards the Willamette River banks and the Waterfront Park Trail, there towards Hawthorne Bridge and up Salmon Street back towards the Hotel. An nice casual 40 minute stroll. There was not much traffic left in the streets, neither cars nor many people, which made it difficult to shoot proper Street Photography, as simply the people were missing. And a few times I had to wait a few minutes for people to appear and walk into the scene. I took quite a few images, a selection of my monochrome shots I included in this post. I will be back in Portland next week and will stay for two weeks including a weekend. So finally some time to explore the city in proper daylight.
All photos were taken hand held, thanks to the great zoom lens with fixed f/2.8 aperture and the excellent stabilization of the Olympus PEN-F.
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