Category: Photography

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Photography: Major newspaper accidentally puts a photo of mine on the front page

March 17, 2010 | 3 comments { Photography }

The Oregonian recently used a photo of mine, on the front page, without permission. Was this an accident caused by staff stretched too thin in a failing publishing industry? Or ignorance of how to find digital content, legally, to use commercially? The situation has been rectified with an apology and offer of compensation, but leaves me concerned that this might be happening more often than I’d like to think.

Photos: Your Vote! Best photo of my goddaughter

March 8, 2010 | 5 comments { Life, Photography }

Help me choose which of these photos from last weekend I should make a nice print of for the parents of this lovely young lady (my goddaughter). I’ll print and frame the winning photograph.

Choose from attentive and realistic, gleeful, LOG POND WITH FISH!!! or weird/blurry but cute.

Photo: Beach foam

March 7, 2010 { Photos }

Everyone knows that there is weird scummy stuff on the beach. Sometimes it gets opalescent and piles up in a way that looks like it might make a good desktop background for one’s computer.

Photo: Kea and Kes

March 4, 2010 { Photos }

My goddaughter, Kea and daddy Kes at the beach (well, indoors) last weekend. Kea is old enough to be extraordinarily into the beach. “BEEECH? BEEEEEACH, P’LEASE?!” She grew gravely concerned when it grew dark. Where was the beach? It was sleeping.

Photo: Earliest Spring

February 27, 2010 { Photos }

I don’t like to use the word “pussywillows”, but it would have been appropriate here. Chasing tsunamis, spending time at the coast with nice people.

Photo: This is a photo of a tree

February 25, 2010 { Photos }

Still feeling peculiar, dispirited. But so as the earth awakens for something springlike, so shall I, ultimately, get my stripe of inspiration back. Here is a photo of a tree, emphasizing negative space. I had to adjust my route to work to find something new. So I did.

I’m having photographer’s block

February 23, 2010 | 1 comment { Life, Photography }

One of the Great Things I struggle with in life is balance. I get enough exercise, but I never see my friends. I read 75 books in one year, but never write anything. Sometimes I take reams of photographs, in spurts of expression; sometimes I am dry as a summer gully in this respect.

Currently it’s the latter.

About two weeks ago, I came down with photographer’s ennui. Though I still walk the same route to work, with the same, often insane visual entertainments, my camera dangles heavily at my hip.

Photo: Winter Juniper

February 16, 2010 { Photos }

Winter in the high desert. Juniper trees don’t get berries every year, but when they get them, they are tenacious little guys. Cute and blue-purple, I like the way they smell. Taken at Arnold Ice Cave, Central Oregon.

Knowledge and Travel: Pine Mountain Observatory, Messier Objects

February 16, 2010 { Books & Learning, Photography, Travel }

It had been my hope to merge my current site theme (The Heavens) with a winter weekend in Sunriver, Oregon. The high desert resort community usually has cold, clear weather at this time of year, and is far away from significant light pollution. That is, the stars can be heavenly, and I have in the past dabbled with entry-level astrophotography there with somewhat acceptable results.

I wanted to write for you about taking photos of stars. Alas, lingering between me and said celestial objects was a stubborn and weepy slab of clouds and mist that did not lift for the entire four days I was out there.

After plan B failed, too, I just had to make something up. Enjoy this latest post in my “heavens” theme series.

Photo: Husky or Maltese Whatever

February 8, 2010 { Photos }

Life is more interesting because of things like this. The surreal name of this restaurant was an amusing mystery in Southeast Portland until the Portland Tribune tracked down exactly how this strip mall restaurant on SE Powell Blvd got its strange moniker.

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