Kell's Irish boxing match

I had a blast shooting an amateur boxing match between USA and Ireland during the March St Patrick's Day festivities at Kell's Irish in downtown Portland. Six boxers on each team, three 2-minute rounds per bout, a bikini-clad lady in too-high heels walking the ring between rounds, with rowdy Portlanders dressed in green all around, double-fisting Guinness and Jameson, ready to throw punches themselves. I had no idea the rules of amateur boxing or how the judges actually scored the match, and was disappointed that each bout ended without a knock-out or obvious winner. The US team won, but I have NO idea how: I even googled "scoring" after the event, and the ten billion rules just made my brain bleed. Nonetheless, it was an evening of eye candy for the photographer!


© Anni Tracy, shot with the Minolta Autocord TLR with cross-processed Fujicolor 800Z film.

Kearny Street, towards Coit Tower

This photo was made during my lovely March visit to San Francisco: I woke up from my dim sum food coma at the North Beach hostel and groggily admired the views from my third-story window looking up Kearny Street towards Coit Tower. I absolutely love this part of town: City Lights Books, Chinatown, Little Italy and the Embarcadero were a hop, skip and a jump away, and all around me were strip clubs, buskers and panhandlers – that part, at least, felt just like Portland.


© 2011 Anni Tracy, taken with the Minolta Autocord, Pan F film.

The shipwreck on Easter weekend

I am finally working photos from my sister's trip to Oregon over Easter weekend! We did some biking in Fort Stevens State Park – where it absolutely downpoured on us until the very second we finished the ride – then we drove across the Hwy 101 Bridge into Washington, took jumping photos on top of the Column, and finished the day in downtown Astoria with a fancy Easter seafood dinner of steamers, chowder and halibut... Marie B. Tracy should visit all the time!


© 2011 Anni Tracy, shot with a Bronica ETL with Fujichrome.

Un-welcoming observation tower in the Redwoods

This photo was taken in April exploring Redwood National Park, east of Orick, Calif. While driving inland along the Bald Hill Road ridge line near Hooker Mountain, I stopped to photograph a herd of 100+ elk crossing the road – every one of them eyeing me suspiciously, ready to bolt – or charge! A few miles up the road I hiked to a closed-for-the-season park observation tower, where the views were absolutely unbelievable. Unfortunately, I met some resistance in the form of a padlock ~50 ft. up when trying to climb the tower.


© 2011 Anni Tracy, photographed with a Mamiya 7 w/ Provia slide film.

Revisiting oldie-but-goodies.

Seward Highway in Alaska, circa 2005, just past the Girdwood ski area: the most unbelievably breathtaking stretch of highway I've ever had the pleasure of driving in my life. This was taken with a disposable camera, in the rain, then "accidentally" baked in the Alaska sunlight.


© 2005 Anni Tracy Photography

April 21, late posting

This photo was taken during one of Portland's only snowy days this year! Geese like to hang out next to Hwy 224 in Milwaukie, Ore., stopping traffic as they cross the on-ramp in single file. Honking at them doesn't really work – they simply honk right back to you. (Occasionally traffic stops them though, and you'll find a sad flurry of feathers drifting along the highway.)


© 2011 Anni Tracy, shot with the Pentax K1000, expired TriX film.