Support veterans awareness with the Long Road Home Project on June 13!

To anyone visiting my photo blog, I'd like to invite you to a celebration on Wednesday, June 13. My younger sister, Capt. Marty Tracy, just returned from her 6-month tour in Jalalabad, Afghanistan as a logistical officer with the US Air Force. The family so incredibly excited to have her home safe, and as she settles back into daily life she is simultaneously gearing up (no pun intended) to cycle cross-country with the Long Road Home Project in support of veteran awareness. She and four other veterans will bike 3,800 miles in three months, from Aberdeen to Washington D.C., July to October, connecting with vets across the country and sharing their own experiences in coping with PTSD. These five brave souls will ask the question along the way, What can we do as a nation to better serve our veterans as they come home?

I'd like to help Marty on this amazing journey by hosting a shindig on Wednesday, June 13, while she's visiting Portland. If you are free, come meet my sister! Get excited about biking! Support veterans awareness! Get inspired and help make this world a better place! (And of course, hungry and thirsty folks will enjoy Circa's $10 burger/bourbon/beer special all evening long.) Proceeds from the drink special of the evening will support the Long Road Home Project, plus we are putting together a raffle with prizes from breweries/bike shops around town AND trying to get veterans groups (and LGBT vet groups, for Pride next week!) from the Portland area to come by. Exciting stuff! Friends and family are absolutely invited, and please spread the word to any local veterans and soldiers. This celebration is for them, too!

When: Wednesday, June 13... just next week!
6:30-10 p.m. (Raffle drawing tentatively at 9 p.m.)

Where: ‘The Speakeasy’ at Circa 33
3348 SE Belmont St. (Ask the hostess about the 'secret code' into the Speakeasy.)

Click here for more info.

See you next week, and thanks in advance for your support!
~Anni Tracy

Thailand, Feb. 1-21, 2012 (Part 2)

Wat Thai Wattanaram – Myawaddy, Myanmar

Wat Suthep – near Chiang Mai, Thailand

Street vendor – Chiang Mai, Thailand

Pai, Thailand

Temple of the Reclining Buddha – Bangkok, Thailand

Let sleeping dogs lie, 2 a.m. – Pai, Thailand

Myawaddy, Myanmar

Foreigner's Cemetery – Chiang Mai, Thailand

Mid-day heat – Myawaddy, Myanmar

Wat Thai Wattanaram – Myawaddy, Myanmar

Myawaddy, Myanmar

Pai, Thailand

Myawaddy, Myanmar

Overnight train, Bangkok to Chiang Mai

Surrounded by Thai soldiers, bus from Chiang Mai to Mae Sot

Ko Lanta, Thailand

Street vendor, near the Grand Palace – Bangkok, Thailand

Wat Umong – near Chiang Mai, Thailand

©2012 Anni Tracy Photography

Thailand – Feb. 1-21, 2012 (Part 1: the dip/trip/quadtychs)

Wat Thai Wattanaram – Myawaddy, Myanmar

Crocodile Temple – Myawaddy, Myanmar

Pai, Thailand

Foreigner's Cemetery – Chiang Mai, Thailand

Ferry to Ko Lanta, Southern Thailand

Wat Thai Wattanaram – Myawaddy, Myanmar

En route to Mae Sot, Thailand

Temple of the Reclining Buddha – Bangkok, Thailand

Wat Thai Wattanaram – Myawaddy, Myanmar

Border crossing: Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge

Myawaddy, Myanmar

Wat Umong – Chiang Mai, Thailand

Myawaddy, Myanmar

Pai, Thailand

Karaoke booth – Pai, Thailand

Pai, Thailand

©2012 Anni Tracy Photography

Beating the winter blues.

© Anni Tracy, The Cubicle, Portland Tribune, 2012.


© Anni Tracy, On Your Way Downtown, Portland, 2012.


© Anni Tracy, Quacks Under the Hawthorne Bridge, Portland, 2012.

The Pacific Northwest landscape

Hey folks! I'm continuing to play catch-up with the 30+ rolls of film I shot over the past six months. Here are a few images made during the springtime – obviously not the most pleasant time of year to be in Oregon, but I made the most of it. A little rain never hurt anything (much). Enjoy!

© Anni Tracy, Fort Stevens State Park, Oregon, 2011.


© Anni Tracy, Multnomah Falls, Oregon, 2011
Both images happily made with a Bronice ETL on Fujichrome.

Good news!

I am happy to announce the return of my courageous, honorable, awe-inspiring sister, Captain Tracy, to the left coast July 31-Aug. 4. She couldn't get enough of us the first time around, so Marty is back for another visit before her orders for deployment begin the following week. Let's all welcome her back and make sure to show her a grand ole' time, Portland-style!



This photo was made with Marty over Easter weekend, exploring the coast and biking around Fort Stevens State Park between the shipwreck and the batteries.

© Anni Tracy Photography, shot with a Bronica ETL on fujichrome.

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.