Coffee Outside and a Forest Park Ride: 21 May 2022

At MP 6 1/2 on Leif Erikson Drive, Forest Park. 21 May 2022. Minolta XD5/MC Celtic 28mm f/2.8 lens/Ilford HP5+/Ilfosol 3 1:9 at 5:30 in Rondinax 35U tank It's been a wet late spring, so if something's going on during a nice day, I seize that opportunity. The weekly Portland Coffee Outside meetup was happening...

A coffee outside and post ramble, plus vanishing places. 23 April 2022

Southwest Community Park, 23 April 2022. Olympus 35RD, Kodak TMAX 400, developed with Ilfosil 3, 1:9 solution at 6:20 in a Rondinax 35U tank I'm really happy that PDX Coffee Outside has moved from the "weekday morning at 7 am" template that many of these types of events have, instead landing on Saturdays at 9...

PDX Coffee Outside, 12 Feb 2022

Ah, PDX Coffee Outside, I love you. Yet the last time I had participated in PDX Coffee Outside was the end of November. I had hoped to do one since then, but crappy weather through December and the Omicron surge through January (which cancelled the event) meant it didn't happen. So I was happy when...

Coffeeneuring 2021 Wrap Up

Coffeeneuring Self-Portrait during my first ride of the challenge to Mount Tabor, 18 Oct 2021. Camera: Olympus XA2. Film: Kodak ColorPlus 200 It's been a few weeks since I completed this year's Coffeeneuring Challenge. I'm overall happy with how it turned out, though I didn't meet my "challenge with a challenge" of riding all my...

Coffeeneuring 2021, Ride 7: Jim and Patty’s on NE Fremont, 24 November 2021

And so another #coffeeneuring challenge ends, once again, not with a bang, but a whimper. I didn't intend for my final ride of the 2021 Coffeeneuring Challenge to be such a shrug, but that's just how it happened. I had ambitions for a more substantial ride on Thanksgiving Eve. No, I never got around to...

Coffeeneuring 2021, Ride 6: With the Bantam and Coffee Outside, 20 Nov 2021

Ascending Powell Butte, 20 Nov 2021. Olympus 35 RD/Kodak ColorPlus 200. I've ridden my Brompton A LOT since I got it in the middle of October. It makes sense: I want to become familiar with it, and the only way to do so is by riding it a lot. Plus, it's a fun bike. Oh...

Coffeeneuring 2021, Rides 4 and 5: SoCal Edition

Bluffs at Torrey Pines Gliderport, San Diego. 2 November 2021. Olympus XA2/Kodak Portra 160 Welcome to another installment about my Coffeeneuring 2021 Challenge! My fourth and fifth rides of the series were all done out of town. I was in Southern California for the first two weeks of November, and since I brought my Brompton,...

Coffeeneuring 2021, Ride 3: Laurelhurst Park and Albina Press on Hawthorne, 24 October 2021

Hey folks! Two weeks out of town really killed my blogging rhythm. I forgot that I didn't post here about my third ride of the Coffeeneuring 2021 Challenge. This ride happened on Sunday October 24th. Fall was peaking and I wanted to catch the foliage before it went away, especially since I knew I'd be...