Say Hello to my Little Friend
Hummingbirds are beautiful but skittish and difficult to photograph because they move to fast. That hasn’t stopped me from trying. Here, I got a handful of really beautiful shots. Plus I show my setup.
Starry, Starry Night
For the last several nights I have been out well past midnight taking photos of the night sky. It’s very dark in this remote corner of Oregon and there are million stars out. It’s quite magnificent, really. Here are some of my favorite photos from those excursions.
One of the Best Mountain Ranges You’ve Never Heard Of
Right in the back yard of the place where I’m housesitting sits the Wallowa Mountains. Literally. The entrance to a state park is four houses away. I go walking in there almost daily. I have hiked 9,000 feet up into the mountains, ending up well above the snow line. They...
Evil Kneivel tried to jump THIS?!
Until I came through Idaho and eastern Oregon, what I knew about the Snake River Canyon was that Evil Kneivel tried to jump over it on a rocket-powered motorcycle in the 1970s. Having now ridden my own motorcycle along some 100 miles of the Snake River, I can say
Oregon Ghost Towns (part 3)
Of course all these photos from the ghost towns I’ve been visiting were originally taken digitally and in color. However I Photoshopped them to be black-and-white, sepia, silver toned or sometimes with strange colors because the subject matter seems to demand it.
Oregon Ghost Towns (part 2)
Ghost towns aren’t just about the old, dilapidated buildings. For reasons unknown, people sometimes left their entire lives behind. Including cars, trucks, furniture and many other things. Here are some of the cars and trucks I found while touring the ghost towns.
Oregon Ghost Towns (part 1)
Before I came to remote Joseph, OR I had done some research online. I found that there are approximately eleven ghost towns within an hour or so from here.
Even better than a unicorn
Those who have known me for even 10 minutes know that I am no fan of the cold. I don’t use air conditioning and only rarely use fans. I don’t love extreme heat but can tolerate it better than most. On the other hand, I hate being cold. So it...
If you haven’t seen fireworks in a place like this…
I have seen the World Pyrotechnic Championships in Toronto. (Yes, there is such a thing and it’s held in a different city every year.) Seeing fireworks over an alpine lake surrounded on all sides by soaring mountain peaks easily rivals that.
The Badlands aren’t so bad after all
On my way across the country, I rode 3,100 miles and passed through 14 states and four time zones. Ever since I saw photos of it in a magazine back in the 1980s, I have been dying to visit Badlands National Park in South Dakota. Before white settlement, the Lakota...