Graffiti Gossip» My Family http://graffitigossip.com The jewelry blog and photographic travel journal of Sandra Miller Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:20:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 THE WEDGE AND THE HOPS….2 FESTIVALS IN ONE DAY! http://graffitigossip.com/2011/10/the-wedge-and-the-hops-2-festivals-in-one-day/ http://graffitigossip.com/2011/10/the-wedge-and-the-hops-2-festivals-in-one-day/#comments Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:42:21 +0000 Sandra Miller http://graffitigossip.com/?p=5313 6226179077_4966f1f81c_z  SOME OUTFITS SIMPLY SHOULDN'T BE WORN TO BEER FESTIVALS…THIS IS ONE OF THEM!! FRIENDS LESLIE AND BOB We had such a wonderful time yesterday at two Portland festivals.  The first just Steve and I went to in the morning and it was called THE WEDGE Unbelievable artisan cheeses from all over the western U.S.  [...]]]>

 

SOME OUTFITS SIMPLY SHOULDN'T BE WORN TO BEER FESTIVALS…THIS IS ONE OF THEM!! FRIENDS LESLIE AND BOB

We had such a wonderful time yesterday at two Portland festivals.  The first just Steve and I went to in the morning and it was called THE WEDGE

Unbelievable artisan cheeses from all over the western U.S.  We were impressed with the variety of unique goat, sheep and cows milk creations and purchased a few  for savoring later on  with a great bottle of wine

Portland Celebrates Cheese!</p><br /> <p>Taste and buy artisan and farmstead cheese from throughout the Northwest</p><br /> <p>And meet the peoplewho make them</p><br /> <p>Hey Kids…take the cheese challenge and win prizes!</p><br /> <p>Click here for event details</p><br /> <p>Entry - Suggested $5 donation for the Oregon Cheese Guild or bring canned food for the Oregon Food Bank

 
This hand painted chow featured the city of Portland and was MY colors too. A moooooooving experience at THE WEDGE
 
 
Of course what is a cheese festival without  our infamous local Tillamook creamery representin!!! Love this VW!!!
 
 
We couldn't leave without purchasing this lovely blue cheese!!! Perfectly stinky and delicious !!
 
 
Olympic Provisions were also there with their mouth watering salami's and sausage
 
 
This photo for me sums up the vibe of THE WEDGE Festival.  Casual, delicious, artisan, PORTLAND!

 

 
 
Now on to Steves favorite part of the day!!  The FRESH HOP TASTIVAL
This fest featured dozens of delicious locally brewed beers spiced up with freshly picked hops

 

 

 

 

 
Steve in his element.  I even have learned to enjoy an occasional beer since the boom of micro breweries in PDX
 
 
I met a great little lab names "Hanna" who lost her leg in an accident. She is a rescue and so sweet!
 
 
I caught a great casual photo of our friends Leslie and Mohan who met up with us.  We took a nice walk on a refurbished railroad track by the river. It was a perfectly perfect relaxing day.  Today it's raining…….oh well, I need to clean the house and shop for groceries anyway!  Hope you all are having a wonderful weekend!!!!

 

CLICK HERE TO SEE A LARGE SLIDESHOW WITH ALL 71 PHOTOS

 

 
And last but not least….while I had the camera out I had to show you all my largest banana leaf on my 2 year old plant!  The plant will die back in a few weeks anyway so I picked it to steam a fish in and Steve took a photo yesterday morning.   I plan to divide my bananas next year and plant the "pups" all over the place. I adore these trees!!!

 






]]> http://graffitigossip.com/2011/10/the-wedge-and-the-hops-2-festivals-in-one-day/feed/ 4 A GIRLS DAY IN THE PARK..PHOTOSHOOT OF MY DAUGHTER http://graffitigossip.com/2011/09/a-girls-day-in-the-park-photoshoot-of-my-daughter/ http://graffitigossip.com/2011/09/a-girls-day-in-the-park-photoshoot-of-my-daughter/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 14:58:43 +0000 Sandra Miller http://graffitigossip.com/?p=5247 Screen shot 2011-09-23 at 7.55.42 AMHello my friends!!  I am now back in Oregon and trying to catch up on all sorts of projects including pulling together the best images from my photoshoots to deliver them adjusted and cropped to my clients.    One of the really fun things I love to do with the best of the best images from [...]]]>

Hello my friends!!  I am now back in Oregon and trying to catch up on all sorts of projects including pulling together the best images from my photoshoots to deliver them adjusted and cropped to my clients.    One of the really fun things I love to do with the best of the best images from each session is to put them either into a bound book or video for the customer.  This gives them an easy way to share….the book makes a perfect coffee table presentation!!

BELOW FIND THE BOOK I PUT TOGETHER FOR MY DAUGTER LIZ ….click arrows to advance book pages

 

 
While visiting my family in Minneapolis in September 2011, my daughter and I decided to do a photoshoot for her website http://creativelyclean.com to update the pages . What a great time we had at the Lake Harriet Rose Garden and Peace Garden on an overcast misty day. Perfect lighting for her GREEN CLEANING image!!!

She went crazy cleaning everything from the forest to the wooden bridge. Very few people were crazy enough to go to the park in the drizzle except this Oregonian and my nature loving daughter!

 

 






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Hello friends!! I have been so busy this past week at my moms house there has been little time to post on the blog, but I wanted to show you a few pix from the Reniassance Festival and the above image from a photoshoot I did this week at a beautiful brow studio ….lots more to come of those 800 plus pix I took of 3 stunningly beautiful ladies!!!

We went to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival on Saturday Sept 10 and had a beautiful day for it.   I took hundreds of shots and will show you all my faves when I return home.  Below you can read the captions on a few hand picked shots.  This week I'll also be photographing Liz for her business advertising so I'm really looking forward to that labor of love!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 






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