Camp-Fire

Went camping over Labor Day weekend. Spent the weekend at
Suttle Lake in Central Oregon. Just about 3 miles away a pretty good sized wildfire was burning. The effect on us wasn't too great, although in the morning the smoke settled down over the lake and you could smell it. It did give the sky an erie look at times, depending on the direction of the wind. We were pretty lucky, the fire didn't threaten us, but down the road at the Black Butte Resort the folks over there had to evacuate.

fade away

These are from Eric and Tami's wedding day. They wanted to take a couple of shots down at the the end of the orchard in the last of the evening light. I made it, they had to do something like sign the paper work to make their wedding legal....details, details.......Anyway a couple more shots from the wedding and from the orchard.

More wedding pics

A couple more images from Eric and Tami's wedding, some of the more abstract shots I've worked up.

Eric&Tami

My brother in-law Eric...AKA..."E" got married this past weekend out at the family farm. My in-laws did a fantastic job getting the place gussied up, it looked so nice. The shot of Eric and Tami walking on the path was taken by Melinda Andrews, who was kind enough to assist me, good job Melinda.

Good Luck Eric and Tami!

More Masonic

A couple more from my roadside wander the other night. Color version of one, and these show off the evening light a little more too.

Get masonic

There is an old Masonic cemetary between Harrisburg and Halsey on 99E. I stop here from time to time to look for some shots. Found a couple this night. Although the evening light was fantastic these darker shots jumped out at me. I'll post a couple more color shots later.

A week of baseball

24 games in 4 days, 2 state tournaments, and now a couple days off.

Happy 4th

Hope everybody had a safe and fun 4th of July. We kept it pretty laid back. Shot off a couple fireworks in the back yard, the kids had a blast.

Happy B-day Magpie

On the occasion of your 9th birthday, and at her request...Happy Birthday Mags!

Morning Glory

I know some call these weeds, but in certain places I think they are quite stunning.

Hike in

Thes shots are from 2 years ago. My oldest son Theo and my brother in law E took a hike into Marion Lake and camped for the night. A cold wet night, but it was still pretty fun. I thought I would post a couple of images from that trip because Theo and E http://eenphotos.blogspot.com/ both have been asking when we are going back. Soon I hope.

Champ Car 04

In my last post I mentioned that in the past we had some sweet pit passes. Well I thought I would share just what I meant by that. In the past a friend of mine had a friend who was pretty well connected to Champ Car, and the friends of this friend enjoyed the benefits, as you can see. Due to a change in proffesional dynamics we, as a group were unable to accept such generosity this year. Such is life. And the old guy there is Paul Newman, he is part owner of the McDonald's car, who just happened to win that day, as well as this years race too.

PDX Grand Prix

Pics from the Portland Champ Car race yesterday, 6-10-07. A few changes this year, the race wasn't held on Father's Day, traditionally this was the day the race was on, now our wives have to deal with us, what will they do? Another change is that the source for our sweet pit passes we've had in the past has dried up, no more being right in the pits, only separated from the crews and tire changes by a 3 foot concrete barrier. This year we sat in the Festival Curves, a series of a hard right turn into a hard left turn right at the end of the home straight away. It's a place where there is typically a lot of action, wrecks and passes and what not. No wrecks and we were actually hoping for a little rain about 2/3rds of the way thru the race as the #1 McDonald's car driven by Sebastian Bourdais had come from 2nd place-13 seconds behind the leader-and overtook the #9 car driven by Justin Wilson, and had taken a 13 seconds lead. And at 200mph a 13 second lead is pretty substantial. We all thought a good down pour would make it a little more interesting. It was a great day, good friends and decent weather. Busted out the hibatchi and and had a couple beers, good day.

The old Barn

More from the archives, and from the farm. I stumbled across these shots a while ago and thought it would look good on the blog, and since I don't have any new stuff to put up now seems like a good time to post these. I took these a couple of years ago with my buddy/bro-in-law E. Both he and I have lived out to this farm at different times, and we have spent many hours wandering around in the dark looking for things to photograph. We spend a lot of time at the barn. This night we turned the interior lights on. The outside is lit by a sodium vapor lamp f some sort, thus the green glow. E and were talking last night and decided it was time for another night time photo session out here.