We go here to catch snails, bugs, crabs, shrimp, you name it. The girls love flipping over the big rocks. This isn’t like the SUMMER VISITS we take, the water is super cold, but still the kids have a great time!
We usually take a trip or 2 through Yakima throughout the year in a trip down to Bend. We stop off to see Don and this time he had a swimming pool that the kids thought was PRETTY neat… Bobo still has his long locks in this set as well — we’ve trimmed them since then, but the girls…
This one is again at the i84/hwy 97 interchange between Oregon and Washington. I’ve always really liked how infrared photography has worked (example 1, 2, 3) but I’ve never taken the time to actually hammer one out. This is certainly not by the book, but does a very good…
I hadn’t taken a lot of shots lately, been busy with other things; but the family and I took a long weekend to the Toivola cabin 8/14–15 which was almost precisely HERE. It was a great time, had some good food, good friends, and mediocrely behaved dogs. All in all, a great weekend. The girls…
This is another stitched shot right above the Columbia River on the Washington side. We pulled off and I walked back from the road and took 30 or 40 shots of things but when I came back to the car, the lighting and cloud cover was a perfect setup, so I snapped a few more:
This one actually is a set of about 10 shots that I pivoted on each step to take. The full size version is HERE, it’s 33MB, but it makes for a pretty sweet background!There is a turnout right as you go up the hill after Biggs, OR on the Washington side of the bridge over the…
There weren’t many things growing in the rocks above the Columbia at the i84/highway 97 interchange at Biggs, OR — but these flowers seemed to be growing just fine. Toss in a dramatic background and bam, you got yourself a shot. I’m not usually a flower guy, but I DO like to…
When we were in Bend earlier this year, I remembered that I had a bunch of photos that I hadn’t processed from the LAST time we were there. I remember I took a handful on the golf course. Jay and I played with these guys that were very into the game, but very horrid at the…
Matt Amberg is a pretty stellar photographer (see his stuff HERE) and he sent over this photo to kick around a little bit. I gave it a honey tone overlay to take out some of the contrasting background blues and did a little cloning work on it. I did 2 versions of the edit taking out another bee…
We have these spiders around our house all the time. I want to say they’re wolf spiders, but I have no idea. They’re extremely hairy though and they do a good job of scaring my kids as they can run at speeds that seem like that of a small car…