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Portrait and Event Photography
by Tessa Black
PORTLAND, OREGON
I moved to Gresham, Oregon at 17 - about a week before I started my senior year of high school. Within the next year, I spend quite a bit of time in downtown Portland, and exploring the area around Portland. In September 2015 - just after my first Oregon anniversary - I moved into downtown Portland. This page is a collection of the photographs I have taken while living in the area. Keep scrolling to find new sections/ more photographs!
 Alphabet District. 30 December 2015. |  Alphabet District. 30 December 2015. |  Alphabet District. 30 December 2015. |
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 Pearl District. 30 December 2015. |  Pearl District. 30 December 2015. |  My newest tattoo. It reads, "She believed she could, so she did." This is a phrase that's gotten me through the rough patches during the past couple of years. Ink done by Ashton Allen at No Hope No Fear Tattoo Studio in Portland, OR. Tattoo received on 28 December 2015. |
 "Portlandia." 2015. |  2015. |  2015. |
 Pearl District. Portland. 2015. |  2015. |  2015. |
 I have a thing for taking pictures of my feet in places. Pearl District. Portland. 2015. |  2015. |  Home away from home. 2015. |
 2015. |  Pearl District. Portland. 2015. |  Welcomed October with a dense fog. 2015. |
 Pioneer Courthouse Square. 2015. |  Portland Children's Museum. 2015. |  2015. |
 Portland Children's Museum. 2015. |  Pioneer Courthouse Square. 2015. |  2015. |
 Portland Children's Museum. 2015. |  Portland Children's Museum. 2015. |  Gresham. 2014. |
 PDX. 2015. |  Portland Children's Museum. 2015. |  Entrance to the Visitor Information Center. 2015. |
 PDX. 2015. |  Powell's City of Books. 2014. |  Pearl District. 2015. |
 Portland State University. 2015. |  PDX. 2015. |  Pearl District. PDX. 2015. |
 Pearl District. PDX. 2015. |  Foxtrot Vintage. Gresham. 2015. |  Portland Children's Museum. 2015. |
 2014. |  Pearl District. PDX. 2015. |  Portland Children's Museum. PDX. 2015. |
 PDX. 2015. |  Portland Children's Museum. PDX. 2015. |  During my senior year of high school, I spent many afternoons at Powell's City of Books, studying. I spent so much time in there, that the baristas would see me and before I would order, would go ahead and start making a chai latte for me. |
 I share my birthday with my boyfriend. Our first date, we went to Tea Chai Te, in Portland's Alphabet District. These were the remnants in my cup after we finished our Caramel Brulee Lattes. |  Pioneer Place puts up beautiful decorations for the holidays. |
Snow Day!
When it's a very snowy Sunday, and you and your floormates have nothing to do, what do you do? You go play in the snow! 03 January 2016.
 Our Kuwaiti floormate got to play in the snow for the first time! |  Again with the feet. The boots in the snow! |  Seleste said felt like a calendar model when she laid like this. Totally a candid shot. |
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 Kirstin and I had to take a picture in the snow! |  Seleste's boyfriend Merrick joined her in our shenanigans. |  Brrrr. |
 The view on the top of the parking garage was just gorgeous! |
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