by Alex Pullen | Jun 26, 2017 | Bellingham, Featured, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Time-lapse, Travel, Video, Washington
North Cascades Time-lapse from Alex Pullen on Vimeo. This is short video I created mostly to house a couple time-lapse videos I did last week in the North Cascades above Baker Lake Washington. The dash cam was a nice human element for sure and helped bring...
by Alex Pullen | Jan 21, 2017 | Featured, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Portland, Travel, writing
Women’s March – Portland, Oregon Tens of thousands gathered to participate in the Woman’s March, Saturday January, 21st in Portland, OR. This day will be remembered as one of the largest mass political events in human history, with millions...
by Alex Pullen | Dec 6, 2016 | Featured, Photography, Portland
The top of Mt. Hood has been totally covered in snow, and so has much of the high-country… I wasn’t quite ready to let go of her plant life though, so I went for what was likely my last visit to the mossy green undergrowth, ferns and fungi of the forest...
by Alex Pullen | Nov 12, 2016 | Featured, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Portland, Time-lapse, Video
For the last couple weeks I’ve been getting out trying to find a good vantage of Mt. Hood and catch the sunset. It’s predictably rainy and overcast this time of year in Oregon, so I’ve been keeping a close eye on the weather feeds. Last...
by Alex Pullen | Nov 11, 2016 | Featured, Photography, Wild Women
Reflections on the Project: As this portfolio of images evolves and expands I’m more and more taken aback by the power and subtlety of these photographs. Like all good artistic projects, this was pursued on a hunch. And, as the portfolio of images comes to...
by Alex Pullen | Oct 27, 2016 | Featured, Photography
A few weeks ago I got a message from a friend who I met in Chiang Mai, Thailand this last winter. He was reaching out because he founded a successful Instagram page with almost 10,000 followers and he was looking for a photographer to supply backgrounds for his...
by Alex Pullen | Oct 27, 2016 | Featured, Photography, Portland, Wild Women
At the end of August, my wife and I had the idea to expand our “red dress” portfolio and create a calendar featuring other women in nature. After a remarkably successful “call for models” we began taking action and bringing this idea to...
by Alex Pullen | Sep 28, 2016 | Photography, Prints For Sale
There is nothing like expecting a package in the mail! I just got two new prints delivered! These beauties are hanging on my wall right now… I feel so blessed to have witnessed and captured these moments with my camera. Nothing beats holding them and...
by Alex Pullen | Sep 19, 2016 | Colorado, Featured, Photography, Portland, Portraits, Wild Women
Do you consistently seek ways to let your inner Goddess shine? Are you seeking more freedom of expression? Check out this amazing opportunity to be a part of the “Wild Women of 2017” – Calendar. Alex Pullen and Marion Bouquet are two artists (and...
by Alex Pullen | Sep 16, 2016 | Featured, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Photography
One of my goals for 2017 is to do a print series featuring the night sky. I’ve been hooked on astrophotography for more than a year now. I’ve managed to get some decent portfolio, but I unfortunately can’t print my images very big due to the quality....
by Alex Pullen | Sep 15, 2016 | Featured, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Portland, Travel
After a hectic couple weeks of still trying to get settled into big city life, we decided to take a long weekend up on the Washington coast. I really felt like the sea breeze and sleeping on the ground would be good for moral and allow us both to recoup and restore a...
by Alex Pullen | Aug 30, 2016 | Featured, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Portland, Portraits, Travel, Wild Women
For the last two weekends, my partner and I have been scouting a new area for both fun adventures and photogenic backgrounds. We were tipped about this spot by a friend in the area. Lower Falls is no secret, and it is magnificent… So to avoid the late summer...
by Alex Pullen | Aug 19, 2016 | Featured, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Portland, Time-lapse, Video
I love how doing these time-lapses of the night sky makes me feel like were on a ball spinning through the universe at a billion miles an hour. We can also see the affect of the light pollution from urban areas as well. Remember that we can protect the night sky by...
by Alex Pullen | Aug 8, 2016 | Featured, Photography, Time-lapse, Travel, Video
Chamonix-Mont Blanc – 4K Timelapse from Alex Pullen on Vimeo. 4K Timelapse video of a glaciated peak on Mont Blanc. Taken one afternoon on a hike outside of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, France. I left my camera in a pasture on the way up to a Alp style restaurant...
by Alex Pullen | Aug 8, 2016 | Featured, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Time-lapse, Video
Mount Hood – Portland, Oregon Sunset from Alex Pullen on Vimeo. Summer sunset capturing the forested urban center of Portland, Oregon. This thriving city is full of scenic views, rivers and lush narrow streets.
by Alex Pullen | Jul 22, 2016 | Arts and Entertainment, Colorado, Featured, Oregon, Pacific Northwest, Photography, Portland, Summer
Celebrating 280 days of adventure! We’re glad to be back in the Pacific Northwest. Feeling blessed to be...
by Alex Pullen | Jul 2, 2016 | Arts and Entertainment, Durango and Around, News, Photography
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by Alex Pullen | May 4, 2016 | Arts and Entertainment, Colorado, Photography, Poetry, The Grotto
A friend reminded me the other day about a self portrait I did a few years ago… He was asking for advice about how to make his self portraits less “cheesy”… I said, “I don’t know man, I’ve always done dreamy...
by Alex Pullen | Apr 21, 2016 | Arts and Entertainment, Featured, Photography, The Grotto
Earlier this month I attended the 40th annual Banff Mountain film festival at an intimate theater on the coast of Southern France. While listening to the excited young college students banter among the rows of soft seats, in a language I can understand bits and pieces...
by Alex Pullen | Apr 12, 2016 | Featured, FUN, News, Photography, The Grotto, Time-lapse, Video
It’s funny how a mistake can lead to a random success. Yesterday had I planned on going to photograph at sunset. I had the idea of going to this little French village and photographing right as the sun was setting on large stone tower attached to the archaic...
by Alex Pullen | Apr 8, 2016 | Featured, Photography, The Grotto, Video, writing
Well, we’ve gotten settled in to our studio for the next month nestled atop the old foundations of a castle rampart in the medieval village of Embrun, France. Needless to say we have a spectacular view… and I’d thought I’d share this time-lapse...
by Alex Pullen | Mar 31, 2016 | Arts and Entertainment, Colorado, Featured, Photography, The Grotto, Writings by Alex Pullen
Over the last few years many of you have followed my adventures, growth and shenanigans across the globe. I’m incredibly grateful for all of you, and I’m excited for what I’ve got in store for this coming year… It will be my fourth revolution...
by Alex Pullen | Dec 18, 2013 | India, Photography, The Grotto, The Kashmir Analogs
In India they say, the God that brought life into the world was himself, born in Leh… The first thing God saw when he opened his eyes, was the sky… Henceforth, the god tried and tried to create things in the world as blue as the sky, but never could. It seems his...
by Alex Pullen | Nov 11, 2013 | Photography, Poetry, The Grotto
– Journals – Stacks of journals on the floor. Piles of pages of insight. Filtering back through time. searching… finding old threads and grasping. Reliving the passion and dusty emotions. Turning more pages, back deeper and deeper. Crawling into the...
by Alex Pullen | Nov 7, 2013 | Photography, Poetry, The Grotto
With no one else present I relate to the Self. Full-brimming with emotional solvents I dissolve all thats left. Riding no-hands smiling beneath a clipped crescent moon… With so much room, so much room beneath myself and above the sky so black and bluely true....
by Alex Pullen | Oct 22, 2013 | Photography, Poetry, The Grotto
Emerging early, to catch the first rays, I walk to the knoll beneath the cherry trees. My unfurling of this tattered mat is a quiet gesture of self-love… of devotion. An embodiment of a fiery passion for life. My intention this morning… as the mat softly...
by Alex Pullen | Oct 9, 2013 | Photography, Poetry, The Grotto
Patience is the science of peace. I stand here writing a love poem to the world, on the street corner of a grocery store. Watching the cars drive by, sweeping leaves away from the sliding glass door. Inside I feel the lights, the hours, the familiar faces… I...
by Alex Pullen | Sep 22, 2013 | Photography, Poetry, The Grotto
Something about seven sunflowers.. Collected by bicycle, a busy bee, flying from one stand to the next, seeking beauty and feeling the Sun shine rain joy on a cloudy day. Humming old songs from Jamaica, soft green-blue harmonies under a grey and threatening sky, the...
by Alex Pullen | Sep 11, 2013 | India, Photography, The Grotto, Travel, writing
Melding together flavor, metal pot on the stove. Digging through the pantry, roots, seeds, bark and leaves. Cardamom, black peppercorns, star anise, ginger, cinnamon, clove, black tea. Brewing together the elements, pinches, dashes, splashes, stems, seeds, leaves....
by Alex Pullen | Sep 4, 2013 | Photography, Poetry, The Grotto
Walking alone through the forest, I came upon two great grand-mother trees. Compelled by their size and age, I asked them each a question. Resting my hands on the scaley-yellow bark of the first I asked, “What do you have to teach me?” Through images and...
by Alex Pullen | Sep 2, 2013 | Photography, The Grotto
Rising early, standing on the balcony breathing morning air. Noticing myself feeling mixed and anxious. Praying for guidance, asking the divine for comfort. Compelled to walk, I let myself be led to the river. Sitting and breathing, awaiting the rising sun. Sitting...
by Alex Pullen | Jul 26, 2013 | Photography, Poetry, The Grotto
I’ve left my home and journeyed to the other side I’ve gone where others told me not to go I’ve climbed the tall peaks of humanity and delved into their depths And to get there I traversed through my own heart there upon the crux I sat and looked...
by Alex Pullen | Jun 5, 2013 | India, Photography, The Grotto, The Kashmir Analogs, Travel
How to sum this up… I’ve been in the process of writing The Kashmir Analogs for almost a year now. But it feels like there is more to be said and gleaned from these experiences in India and the Middle-East… And here I am writing the concluding...
by Alex Pullen | May 8, 2013 | India, Photography, The Grotto, The Kashmir Analogs
It is funny where you find yourself sometimes… after I opened my eyes and let them adjust to bright, early-afternoon sunlight, I saw, sitting in front of me, a young boy wearing a brown tunic, staring at me with a big curious grin… as I regain my senses, all I could...
by Alex Pullen | May 6, 2013 | Photography, The Grotto
I went for a walk the other day trying to find good light… You’d think it being easier since it was the middle of the day… Photographing from 10am to 4pm here in Colorado is hard. We get close to a solid 300 days of beautiful sunshine… which is...
by Alex Pullen | May 2, 2013 | India, Photography, The Grotto, The Kashmir Analogs, Travel
– The People – Shoving a camera up to a strangers face requires a lot of nerve. It’s a trip walking up to someone on the street who speaks a different language than you, and saying, “can I take your picture” while using your hands and...
by Alex Pullen | Apr 24, 2013 | Photography, Poetry, The Grotto, The Kashmir Analogs
At this point in my journey in Northern India and my stay in Kashmir, things started to move fast. It was on our second day in Lal Chowk, Srinagar that we began meeting leaders of different separatist parties in Kashmir. For Nelson’s project, his intention is to meet...
by Alex Pullen | Apr 11, 2013 | Photography, The Grotto, The Kashmir Analogs, Travel
-Introduction – Kashmir, Kashmir, Kashmir… In the blossoming age of global communication, media, and technology, the inaccuracy of information the average Westerner has access to, with regards to Kashmir is astounding… Kashmir and the surrounding region,...
by Alex Pullen | Apr 4, 2013 | India, Photography, The Grotto, The Kashmir Analogs, Travel
It has been six months since I returned to the U.S. from India, and I’m still feeling her irresistible and at times overwhelming pull… India never really leaves my mind. The experiences I accrued while traveling there, the people I got to meet and all the...
by Alex Pullen | Mar 27, 2013 | Photography, Poetry, The Grotto
I’m sitting in my room going over the final details of the presentation I’m giving on Kashmir. Tomorrow at 7pm, I’m bringing home a story that changed my life… and presenting it to my community… bringing it all the way home… My...
by Alex Pullen | Dec 3, 2012 | Photography, Poetry, The Grotto
The Poem below is a tribute to the photograph above… which is a tribute to all the beautiful things in life. “Life is like a river. Ever churning… bubbling and flowing over. I feel that, throughout life we get to taste many different rivers…...
by Alex Pullen | Oct 29, 2012 | Photography, Poetry, The Grotto
We must learn to use our tools well…We are given hands to change the world, eyes to see it as it stands, and an imagination to envision the possible futures. Tools are extensions of our hands… And we must learn to use them proficiently… All of our...
by Alex Pullen | Oct 12, 2012 | Colorado, Photography, Poetry, The Grotto
It’s funny to think that I’ve been in the same place for six weeks. Yesterday afternoon, I went on a hike to one of my favorite spots right outside of Durango and had lunch. I made my way onto a carved white pillar of sandstone, that hung prow over the...
by Alex Pullen | Sep 13, 2012 | Colorado, Photography, The Grotto
Yesterday afternoon a funny thing happened. I went on a hike up Animas Mountain, which is a large forested open space right in Durango’s backyard, to get out and enjoy the prime weather that late summer and the first few days of fall provide us. Since I’m...
by Alex Pullen | Sep 3, 2012 | Colorado, Photography, The Grotto, Travel
It was just a month ago that I arrived back in the U.S., and in that short time I have had so much fun visiting with my friends and family. I’ve been on a few road trips and outdoor adventures, and had some time to pull my life together. I got to spend my first...
by Alex Pullen | Jul 20, 2012 | India, Photography, The Grotto, The Kashmir Analogs
They say the color blue… has a deep connection with the city of Leh… … They say the god that brought life to the world was himself, born in Leh… And, the first thing that the god saw when he opened his eyes was sky… henceforth, the god tried and tried to...
by Alex Pullen | Jul 14, 2012 | India, Photography, The Grotto, The Kashmir Analogs
So… sitting here laughing on the verandah of our house boat on Dal Lake… because, the universe can throw curve balls… Nelson and I were supposed to leave for Leh two days ago but we got delayed. The night before we were to make the journey to Leh (on...
by Alex Pullen | Jul 12, 2012 | India, Photography, The Grotto, The Kashmir Analogs
So, after an amazing, and at times emotional and intense three weeks here in Kashmir, Nelson and I are headed off to Ladakh… Today we spent saying goodbye to all the good friends we made, running errands around town and packing our bags for the next and last leg of...
by Alex Pullen | Jul 9, 2012 | India, Photography, The Grotto, The Kashmir Analogs
It’s early evening now, I’m exhausted after another long and hot day traversing Srinagar and the surrounding areas to meet people for Nelson’s project. I’m sitting in the airy front verandah of a houseboat, watching the sunset over the sheet-metal roofs of the stilted...
by Alex Pullen | Jul 1, 2012 | India, Photography, The Grotto, The Kashmir Analogs
Sitting in our hotel room overlooking Lal Chowk the main square in Srinagar, I try to comprehend how different people’s lives are here in Srinagar, Kashmir. Peering through the window from my chair, I can see two armored Humvees, two sandbagged pillboxes with machine...
