Portland Oregon Wedding and Portrait Photographer
I took some photographs at the first Portland Blues Dance competition at Portland’s Lenora’s Room. It was a very fun event and got some great black and white dance pictures of the dancers. The rest of the night was filled with great blues dancing as well!
I have been very interested in shooting video for some time now. I actually want to go into directing at one point in the future.
So I decided to do some videography, photographing my favorite subject matter: dance and dancers! This particular video was shot at a Portland Blues Dance party. I love low light photography, so low light video is a perfect fit.
Here is a video that is mostly my footage (except for the interviews). It is expertly put together and edited by John Tillinghast. Camera work in interviews is by Dan Kaufman. My footage starts around 0:26 mark.
Click below to watch it!
The starting day of Portland Lindy Exchange is finally posted here. The event was at the great Tiffany Center Crystal Ballroom where I shot one of my very first weddings in Portland. Can somebody remind me who the bands on each three days were?
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This is the photographs from the 3rd day of the Portland Lindy Exchange at the Crystal Ballroom, one of my favorite places ever. There was lots of swing dancing, lindy hop, balboa and blues dancing.
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It even allows you to buy digital files (for personal usage only).
As you most likely know, I go out swing and blues dancing couple times a week in Portland. When I showed up at PPAA dance featuring Midnight Serenaders couple months ago, I saw that they were filming it!
The footage was used in Oregon Art Beat on Oregon Public Broadcasting - you can see it here:
Oregon Art Beat featuring Midnight Serenaders
I appear for couple seconds at the 10.5 second mark. Fun!
It is with great sadness I learned Frankie Manning passes away today. He was an amazing dancer, and has been teaching workshops event his year, at the age of 95. He was scheduled to be in Portland later this year. Earlier this month we photographed a shim sham event by Denise Steele that was done by him. The video of it was to be shown at his 95th birthday. I was able to attend some of his workshops and one thing I learned from him was to always smile while dancing. He had an infectious energy. He will be missed.
Manning and his partner Fredi Washington are credited by creating the first air step or an aerial at a 1935 competition at the famous Savoy Ballroom. He was also the chreographer for the famous Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers. On his birthdays he insisted on dancing with as many women as his age.
Here is a video of him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pMDf4ciCRs
Here is his bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankie_Manning
Denise Steele and Frankie Manning at 1999 Workshop at Crystal Ballroom
I had the pleasure of attending Portland Lindy Exchange this year as well. It was a blast. Due to my travel schedule, I am only able to post Day 2 at this point, but check back in about 10 days and I will post the other days as well.
If you want to see the whole set from day 2, go here.
I also shot some video - it is not edited, but it is fun to watch.
Portland Crystal Ballroom Shim Sham:
Here are couple quick picks:
Last Tuesday was the “birthday” of blues dancing in Portland at Lenora’s room. Lots of people showed and it was a very fun night. I took some pictures in between dancing - or more like danced in between taking photos. As I mentioned in my previous Blues Dance picture post, these are darker to reflect the ambiance of the room.
To see the full set, go to Part 1 and Part 2.
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