Halle's Smooooth Words o' Wisdom http://mhalle.com/blog Whereby M. G. Halle Lays it All Out...Silky Style Wed, 17 Feb 2010 17:41:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Willamette River Supermess http://mhalle.com/blog/2010/02/16/539/ http://mhalle.com/blog/2010/02/16/539/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:36:00 +0000 Halle http://mhalle.com/blog/?p=539 This is picture that I shot for the January issue of Oregon Business Magazine on Portland’s Willamette River and the river’s Superfund status. It’s a dirty ‘ol river and I was happy to have been handed the assignment. Art Director Martin Gee said that my being ‘outdoorsy’ had something to do with his decision. I’ve had women end the relationship for the same reason! Pictured here is North Portland’s Schnitzer Steel Yard. This was a fun story to work on that took me to a lot of local places I’d never been. It’s funny how you can learn so much about a place you live when you just take the time to look around slowly and patiently. Fortunately this assignment afforded me the time to be patient.

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We met this local lady in Tygh Valley New Year’s eve day. This is the only photograph that survived the day. The reason? I uploaded it from my phone via a Flickr Tweet. The rest of the photos and my phone rest at the bottom of a pond. The reason? New Year’s Day my dog Jane fell through a crack in the ice and the phone was lost to the pond during her rescue. Jane made it as did I. The phone didn’t and won’t be fetched from the pond until spring. We are lucky. Phones are replaceable. Good ‘ol dogs aren’t.

]]> http://mhalle.com/blog/2010/01/02/a-winsome-smile/feed/ 0 The Art of Crowd Avoidance http://mhalle.com/blog/2009/12/07/the-art-of-crowd-avoidance/ http://mhalle.com/blog/2009/12/07/the-art-of-crowd-avoidance/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:26:45 +0000 Halle http://mhalle.com/blog/2009/12/07/the-art-of-crowd-avoidance/ For starters one way to avoid crowds is to take advantage of extreme weather and get out when most everyone is in. Yesterday was such a day on an abandoned trail in the Columbia River Gorge near Cascade Locks.

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About to head home

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Big thanks to the Miller family for being game and for the Multnomah Falls café au lait.

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]]> http://mhalle.com/blog/2009/11/23/tygh-valley/feed/ 0 My Stylin’ Stylist Darlene http://mhalle.com/blog/2009/11/19/my-stylin-stylist-darlene/ http://mhalle.com/blog/2009/11/19/my-stylin-stylist-darlene/#comments Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:30:26 +0000 Halle http://mhalle.com/blog/2009/11/19/my-stylin-stylist-darlene/ Darlene cuts my hair. Shaves my head is more like it. Seven bucks a whack. I give her a 10 and she keeps the change. She’s been around Portland awhile and each time she whacks me(my hair!) I am reminded of a bygone era. An era that’s fading fast. We have a shoot scheduled for December which is part of a project titled Voices of Et Cetera. I’m really, really looking forward to it.

My stylin' stylist Darlene.

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Primo picking today.

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