pictures.

Welcome.

My name is Rob and I try to be a journalist in Portland, Oregon. I work at The Oregonian - now as a multimedia journalist. Most of my professional life has been about telling stories with pictures.

I started off my career as a photographer. Twas a beautiful world. Everyday was a new exploration, everyday an adventure. I was given this license to enter any world that I wanted and witness things I could never have imagined. I, and my photography, was both innocent and ignorant.

I stumbled into success. It was the worst thing that could have happened to me. It took away all the innocence that I had and left the ignorance. Everything about photography became suffocating. It had lost all of its fun.

As my career has evolved I have tried numerous ways to move backward. And, as in life, it does not seem possible. I just want to return to the enthusiasm that I once had - to the days when I felt like the pictures I made mattered.

For the last year I have made almost no pictures. I have been searching for a new path. Like much of the industry, I hopped aboard the multimedia bandwagon. It’s been good. I can now tell a more complete story than I ever could before. I count that as success. But, it’s time to come back to my first love - and I hope this blog will provide a way for me to do that.

I am no philosopher, nor do I have any great insight to offer. Really, I will call this blog successful if it does not contribute to the general pollution of the internet.

So, if you don’t mind granting me this self indulgence, I will try to share some pictures here.