What is Your Fall Tradition?

Our favorite Portland looks this week.

(Sam Gehrke)
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"We're visiting from San Francisco—in this specific case, enjoying the actual fall weather here."

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"Old-fashioned doughnuts and apple cider."

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"I moved here from Philly a few days ago, so this fall is a completely new one to me. Back home, though, First Fridays were the big fall thing—just tons of art galleries and events and shows that really ramped up in autumn."

(Sam Gehrke)

"Getting all the holiday video game releases and playing them for hours on end. This year, it's Red Dead Redemption 2 before Super Smash Bros. comes out."

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(Left) "Putting any kind of booze that exists in my household in my coffee." (Right) "Buying cheap seasonally scented candles."

(Sam Gehrke)

"Gathering acorns for the winter."

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"Fantasy football!"

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"Going into hibernation mode."

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"Usually heading out to Sauvie Island, relaxing and drinking beers on the farms."

Sam Gehrke

Sam Gehrke is a photographer born in Milwaukee, WI in 1990 and raised in Eugene, OR. He moved to Portland in 2016 to pursue photography, quitting his full time job and diving head first into an independent career. His work has since appeared in Vice Magazine, OPB, The Fader, Vortex Music Magazine and Premier Guitar Magazine.

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