I took this picture four years ago just after moving here. The building in the back is clearly Fox Tower, and in the foreground is Columbia Sportswear. It looks like I intentionally faded out the tower, but I didn't. My friend and I were going around with two cameras. One was a moderately low priced digital, and one was an SLR with black and white film. Honestly, I don't remember for sure but I thought this was the SLR. However, closer inspection reveals some digital oddities that I don't think you would get from scanning in a photo.
I'm sure when you're walking around downtown Portland you've noticed that Fox Tower takes on the color of whatever the sky is doing. It's incredibly reflective of blues and grays especially which make it look almost transparent. Here, the sky was overcast and almost white. (That deep line going through just above center was a shadow that was created by part of the building that is offset. Other interesting features of this building: it was engineered to block as little light as possible from Pioneer Square---it almost never casts a shadow there; I theorize that the shape causes a wind tunnel to form around the building, especially on the East and South sides---it is often considerably windier around there than anywhere else in town; It appeared in a nation-wide ad for a credit card, which was pointed out to me by my manager when she was looking through some magazine.)
Fun with photography!
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