Robert R. Sanders - Design, Photography, Creative Solutions

I started shooting 📸 digital in studio in 1994, in fact I purchased the '64th' Leaf high resolution digital camera back (mounted on the back of a Hasselblad 553) sold in the United States; I stopped shooting film altogether in '97. That and $4 will get me a coffee ☕️, today it doesn't matter. BUT, the digital systems I have today make that first camera system more akin to Apollo 11, so I recognize how spoiled I am with the technological power of what I can do. Having said that, as a professional for almost fifty years, I've learned that one of the truths in good photography is how well the bokah is understood and controlled. Bokah is the soft, out of focus background that frames the subject in a shot, without it the image becomes a snapshot. Here is an example of how bokah works with an image. 🙏

Fine Art, poster, book, and special project creative images; analog, photo & digital

Photo illustration blending five photographs, creating a little touch of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, the unique feeling of the quiet life in the rain Portland style.

Design, illustration, photography for graphic support, image building, packaging & marketing materials.

A sampling of my letterset, graphic, and photographic creative work. This collection will update frequently.

Special moments

A blast from my past! This is an airbrush piece I did for KATU-2's Faces and Places magazine show open animation, it was shining, glowing, with little glints, very fluid looking; also used for the show's bumper graphics. Some of you may remember this if you were watching Portland television in the early '80s.

A fun new direction, stay tuned! Something wonderful just over the horizon.

One of my most recent creative ventures - the Poetry Box™ front page image. This is a work of love and a lot of patience — this is one of those images that evolves over weeks, months, shooting each piece and building the boxes composition. Fun fun fun...

Some of this & some of that...

Beautiful in so many ways.