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Alex Graham
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"Dedicated here to the unfinished work."
IC Layout Designer, mini painter, photo taker, hopeless political junkie. He/Him, Transit, Housing and Liberalism booster.
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Sandy Nights
A shot of a local institution near dusk a few weeks back. It'll outlive us all.
📷: Pentax MX, 50mm f1.7
🎞️: CineStill 400D

#film #photography #filmphotography #BelieveinFilm #analog #pdx #ItsGotAnotherName
Color photo of a bar and it's sign at dusk, with power lines running above the lit sign and the string of lights on the patio. The sign says "The Sandy Hut", and the sky above is the dark blue of twilight lit near the horizon into a soft yellow by the setting sun.
September 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Centennial Mill
Shot I took of a neat building in the Pearl, it's been slated for demolition for a decade or so at this point. It's sad, it's got character, but it'd be better if there was housing there.
📷: Pentax MX, 50mm f1.7
🎞️: Fuji 400

#film #photography #BelieveinFilm #filmphotography #pdx
A color photo of a large old mill building, covered in graffiti. At the top of it is a water cistern, and in front of it are a number of cars parked on the road. Behind it you can see the river rolling through the city.
September 5, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Land's End
Was trying to get a nice sunset shot near Proposal Rock, but the fog had other plans. Decided to roll with the punches, and I think this turned out pretty good.
📷: Pentax MX, 50mm f1.7
🎞️: Kodak Portra 400

#film #photography #BelieveinFilm #filmphotography #analog #PNW #OregonCoast
A photo of waves crashing against a shoreline near dusk, with a heavy fogbank obscuring the sun, allowing only a small patch of light to create a line on the dark water. A wave rolls onto the beach near the bottom of the frame.
September 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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To the Sea
The Oregon Coast is something special.
📷: Pentax MX, 50mm f1.7
🎞️: Kodak Portra 400

#film #photography #filmphotography #BelieveinFilm #analog #PNW #OregonCoast #TheBeachisAwesome
A color photo of a shadowed walkway framing the ocean, with a stretch of bright, vibrant beach visible through the buildings just beyond the shadows.
September 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Waiting at the Diner
I should just take my camera everywhere I go, you never know when you'll find some nice light.
📷: Pentax MX, 50mm 1.7
🎞️: Cinestill 400D

#film #photography #filmphotography #analog #BelieveinFilm #pdx
A photo of a sweater hanging off a coat rack in a diner, with the bar in the background. The sweater is black with white and yellow shapes on it.
August 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Rippin' Season
Taken up at Overlook Park on one of the hot days.
📷: Pentax MX, 50mm f1.8
🎞️: Kodak Colorplus

#film #photography #filmphotography #BelieveinFilm #analog #pdx
A photo of a basketball hoop and a tree canopy framed against a clear blue summer sky. The backboard of the hoop is worn from use, and has a few bits of graffiti marked on it in black ink.
August 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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They Move in Herds
Been a while since I posted, trying to get back in the swing of things. A shot from up near the Franz Bakery.
📷: Pentax MX, 50mm f1.8
🎞️: Kodak Colorplus 200

#photography #film #BelieveinFilm
A color photo of a group of yellow and blue semi-trucks parked in an asphalt lot, with a large stylized logo that says Franz on the one in the middle. The trucks split in the image in two vertically, with bright clear blue skies above them, and the dark pavement underneath them.
August 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Sunset Solitude
Took the hassy up to Mt. Tabor a little while back, the rumors are true, medium format rocks.
📷: Hasselblad 500, 80mm f2.8
🎞️: Kodak Gold 200

#film #photography #filmphotography #BelieveinFilm #pdx #sunset #UrbanParksRule
A person sitting on a park bench looks through a gap in the trees out over the landscape. Everything in the foreground is silhouetted by the golden rays of the sunset.
June 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Twilight Station
Film photos of gas stations, a classic combo.
📷: Hasselblad 500, 80mm f2.8
🎞️: CineStill 400D

#film #photography #filmphotography #analog #BelieveinFilm #pdx #pnw
A photo of a Chevron gas station just after sunset. The lights of the station bloom in the photo, while the blue-purple sky above starts to reveal the stars of the night sky. Trees and powerlines are silhouetted in the background.
June 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Explorers
Even though Washington Park is near downtown, it seems surprisingly easy to find some solitude if you need it.
📷: Hasselblad 500, 80mm 2.8
🎞️: Kodak Gold 200

#photography #filmphotography #BelieveinFilm #pdx
A photo of a person sitting in the grass in a park, while the suns shines on them and a tree hanging over them. Beyond them, further down a small hill, stands a statue pointing out of frame.
June 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Radio Tower
I love radio masts, they're so colorful and bold, and vital to daily life. Trying to create some romance out of one on a hill isn't easy, but the light was really good that day.
📷: Pentax MX, Vivitar 70-210mm f3.5
🎞️: Kodak Portra 400

#photography #BelieveInFilm #filmphotography #film
A picture of a radio mast on top of a forested hill. Behind it is the open sky, where some clouds are drifting by in the waning hours of the day.
June 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Park Days
Portland has the best parks, don't let anyone tell you different. This is from Laurelhurst Park, which has a big pond in it. It's great. Still amazed by the detail in MF photos, btw
📷: Hasselblad 500, 80mm f2.8
🎞️: Kodak Gold 200

#photography #filmphotography #BelieveinFilm #analog #PDX
Photo of a sunny day in a park. A number of people are doing various activities on green grass in the middle of the shot, like reading, tossing a ball around, or bending over. Above them is a sun-lit canopy of leaves, turned golden yellow by the sun. Flanking the scene are two tree trunks, both of them cast in shadow from the perspective.
June 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Summer King
Shot from my first roll through a medium format camera, the detail is incredible. You only get 12 shots though, so gotta make 'em count!
📷: Hasselblad 500, 80mm f2.8
🎞️: Kodak Gold 200

#filmphotography #photography #BelieveinFilm #analog
A photo of the outside of a Burger King fast food restaurant on a bright sunny day, with a car parked in front of it. Behind the building in the background, a single tall building rises up into the blue sky, and a number of trees are visible behind the restaurant.
June 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Together, Waiting
A shot of a young couple on Tabor a little while back, waiting for the sun to go down.
📷: Pentax MX, f1.7 50mm
🎞️: Kodak Portra 400

#BelieveinFilm #photography
A photo of a couple on a park bench framed by trees, overlooking the city of Portland expanding beyond them and the forest covered hillside in the background
May 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Camp Colors
Shot on slide film from the Siuslaw National Forest, it's magical out there.
📷: Pentax MX, f1.7 50mm
🎞️: Kodak Ektachrome 100

#analogphotography #BelieveInFilm #photography #PNW
A photo of a campsite in the woods, with tents and an old trailer in the shade at the bottom of the image in the fore and mid-ground, with a large, sun-lit hillside covered in forest in the background.
May 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Rock and Moss
Camping trip nature photos usually mean more to the photographer than an audience, but here, take a moment of peace. From the Siuslaw National Forest.
📷: Pentax MX, f1.7 50mm
🎞️: Kodak Portra 400

#film #photography #BelieveInFilm #PNW
A photo of a boulder in a river, covered in moss and small ferns.
May 19, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Hollywood Nights
Probably the most famous of the old theaters in town, so iconic the whole neighborhood is named after it! Unbeatable façade too.
📷: Pentax MX, f3.5 28mm
🎞️: Cinestill 800t

#film #photography #filmphotography #analog #analogphotography #BelieveInFilm #pdx #cinema #nightphotography
A photo of the front of a theater at night. A large lit-up sign on the left says, "Hollywood," the same as the marquee on the front. The building itself has an ornate, highly stylized façade, and a group of people mill about in front of the building in the lower half of the picture frame.
May 16, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Travel Time
A shot I took a few months ago on the train, heading out to Washington Park. We were in the only underground section, should have more by now.
📷: Pentax K1000, f1.7 50mm
🎞️: CineStill 800t

#film #photography #analog #filmphotography #analogphotography #BelieveInFilm #pdx #trimet #transit
A picture of the inside of a public transit metro, which is mostly empty of riders except for one person in the foreground reading a book and a few people visible further back. Purple seats shine with reflected light, while yellow hand bars break the picture up into smaller chunks, all lit by lights running overhead.
May 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Showtime
A little piece of luck while doing some night shooting outside Dante's, caught a band unloading in the parking lot and getting ready.
📷: Pentax MX, f1.7 50mm
🎞️: CineStill 800t

#film #photography #filmphotography #analog #analogphotography #BelieveInFilm #pdx #streetphotography
A picture of a parking lot at night, in which members of a band are unloading a Uhaul of their equipment to take into a music venue. Behind them, a painted sign on the wall of the building says Keep Portland Weird, and on the other all is a large painted sign that says Dante's Inferno Cabaret.
May 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Waiting
Night shot from a walk in downtown. Portland is famous for it's food, and the food carts here are fantastic. My favs are all on the East Side, but the ones downtown can't be ignored.
📷: Pentax MX, f1.7 50mm
🎞️: CineStill 800t

#film #analog #photography #filmphotography #BelieveinFilm #pdx
A photo of a sidewalk at night, where people are waiting for food from food carts lined at the edge of a parking lot. Lights are visible from a streetlamp in the upper right of the frame, and from the lights on the carts along the sidewalk. A crossing light is visible on the right, with the red hand signaling that it isn't safe to cross.
May 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Drinks at Bagdad
One of the more famed of the classic theaters around town, the Bagdad Theater and Pub. Always loved the green lights in the display, it stands out!
📷: Pentax MX, f1.7 50mm
🎞️: CineStill 800t

#film #photography #filmphotography #analog #analogphotography #BeliveinFilm #pdx #neon
A photo of the neon marquee on a theater at night, which says Bagdad in big bold letters. The Marquee also has the showtimes for a film playing there, "Mufasa". The glow of the lights is reflecting on the wet pavement of the street in front of the theater, and a glowing sign for Cocktails can be seen to the left.
May 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Friar and Fowl
A shot from a mission in San Diego, the stillness in the garden was a nice respite from the rest of the city.
📷: Pentax MX, f1.7 50mm
🎞️: Harman Phoenix 200

#film #photography #filmphotography #analog #analogphotography #BelieveinFilm #SanDiego #mission
A stone statue of a monk in the sunshine, holding a bird in their hand with another on it's shoulder. Behind the statue in the shadows are tropical plants and flowers.
May 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Neon Laurels
Another of the cinema fronts from around town, this time the Laurelhurst Theater. Probably the best neon display of the bunch, what do you think?
📷: Pentax MX, f1.7 50mm
🎞️: CineStill 800t

#film #photography #filmphotography #analog #analogphotography #BeliveinFilm #pdx #neon
A photo of the front of a theater at night, the massive neon display of it's name, "Laurelhurst" glowing in the night. Two bicycles are chained up on racks out front, and a tree is visible behind the building and signage.
May 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Wonderland of Avalon
Night photography around the neighborhood is great, especially when the neighborhood has all this neon. I'm thinking of doing a series on the old cinemas in town, we'll see.
📷: Pentax MX, f1.7 50mm
🎞️: CineStill 800t

#filmphotography #photography #BelieveinFilm #pdx #film
A photo of the neon sign on an old cinema marquee glowing into the night. A group of people walk down the sidewalk towards the camera, and are caught in the glow of the marquee, looking inside. A line of parked cars stretch down the right side of the photo, as streetlights glow in the distance.
May 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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The Crowd.
Little street shot of a bar in downtown, wasn't sure who was playing that night but the music and vibe filtering out on the sidewalk was great.
📷: Pentax MX, f1.7 50mm
🎞️: CineStill 800t

#film #photography #analog #filmphotography #analogphotography #BeliveinFilm #pdx #streetphotography
a photo of a crowd outside a concert venue and bar. The people in the photo are milling about and socializing, while the lights above them glow in the night.
May 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM