Hazel’s Bed
Little Hazel snoozing in her favorite toy. Her bed. Her takeover of the Homette is almost complete.
Oregon
Say Hello to Hazel
Say hello to Princess Hazelnut Pupcake. My new hiking partner. She’s 8 pounds and no bigger than a minute. Hazel was born June 27, 2022 and came to live with us when she was 10 1/2 weeks old.
Oregon Summer Wildflowers
It’s Summertime in Oregon. We, and the beautiful Oregon Summer Wildflowers, have been fortunate to have had a prolonged Winter and a mild, wet Spring
My Favorite Wildlife Photos of 2021
In the past, at the end of the year, I have only posted the summary of my previous year as it was represented in the landscape photos that I had made. As I looked through my portfolio from 2021 one thing stood out to me and that is that I am starting to have a large part of it wildlife photos.
My New Cell Phone
I have a new camera. It’s become my favorite camera. If not my favorite it is certainly the one that I’ve been using the most. It even makes phone calls.
Leave It Better
I remember a quote that I had read when I was a boy that has stayed with me my whole life. Robert Baden-Powell is quoted as saying, “Try and leave this world a little better than you found it…” He was referring to being a good human, but in this day and age of increased recreational use of the outdoors
Photographing The Northern Lights
I will never forget the first time that I saw the Northern Lights. It was on my first trip to Alaska. Here’s how I photograph it.
Visualizing The Photo – An Outdoor Wedding Portrait
I had a vision in my head of a photo with the couple in the foreground with Mount Hood looming large in the background. An effect that I could not achieve with a wide-angle lens.
Snow Down By The Sandy River
Here’s a photo that I made a couple of days back while Darlene, Betty and I took a walk in the snow. The snow was so fresh and fluffy.