Girls LAX

A couple of shots from the high school girls lacrosse championship game I shot on Thursday night.

Wedding pics

• A couple of shots from a wedding I shot this past week. The wedding was held at the Oregon Garden here in Silverton.

Golfing

Spring sports are coming to an end here, that means state championships, and lots of them. Spent 4 days shooting "action" at the band and orchestra competition, action is a relative term in this case. So it felt pretty good to spend a day outdoors on a beautiful golf course. Here are a couple of shots I kept from that competition.

2-lips too late

Tulips might be my favorite flower to photograph. For some reason, work, weather...whatever, I haven't made any shot of them this year and now they are gone. So here are a couple of my favorite tulip shots from the past couple of years

Coasting

A couple more shots from our trip to the coast over Spring break.

Flock of Sea Gulls

Went to the Coast over spring break a couple weeks ago. The first day we got there the wind was blowing really hard, so hard that the sea gulls were just hanging in the air. Made it easy to catch some interesting pics.

Addition

Been too long since I last posted, spring break and a bad back have had me either on the go or flat on my back. A couple of months ago we lost the first pet my wife and I had together, a cat named Boo Radley-perfectly named-He was really my wifes pet and she had recently decided that she was ready for a new pet. I wasn't too excited about another cat, so when she said she was thinking about a beagle, I said sounds good to me..meet Curious George. Nancy my wife found him at a beagle rescue outfit. So far he has been an excellent fit with the family. Well behaved affectionate and he gets along with our other dog, Bob, they have a great time chasing each other around the yard. Now if I can just get him to stay in the yard.....

Gone Fishing

Done mostly sports lately thought I would change it up a little. Went way back for some of these, went looking for some more abstact stuff. I love abstact photography when it's well done and not just an excuse to be some whacko with a camera, although one of the beauties of digital photography is the abitility to just take pics and not worry about the outcome because you can alway delete them. For some great abstract photography check out www.filemagazine.com also check out susan(the original)joneshttp://susanjonesoutonthecoast.blogspot.com/and http://eenphotos.blogspot.com/ I think they both take some pretty cool shots.

St. Paddy's day = Brew day

Had a rare Saturday off this week. Seemed like a good day to brew something up, was a beautiful day. What you see here is an Imperial stout. The kit was sent to me by my brother in Montana, said my primary fermenter had been empty too long. Thanks JM! My primary is no longer empty, as a matter of fact it's bubbling over. Glad I checked on things before I went to bed last night and put the blow off tube on, if I hadn't have there would have been a mess all over the floor and maybe the ceiling, and this stuff is sticky sticky.

6A Basketball

A couple od shots from the 6A boys tourney I shot last week, it's been a whole week already. It was another 22 games in 4 days, but man it was fun to watch. There were some pretty good athletes in this tournament.

Basketball championships

Shot some state championship tourney last week. These shots are from the 2 semi-final games of the 3A girls. The one shot of the young lady and her coach is not a typical style of shot I usually keep, as it has little "saleability", but I think it was one of the best shots I took over the 4 days. Hoping to post some more as I dig thru the pix from the 22 games I shot in 4 days.

Wrestling Redo

In addition to shooting the state wresting tourney, I've shoot action for the local high school wrestling team. These are some shots I messed around with in PS. The single overhead light wasn't the greatest to shoot under, but it did provide some dramatic effects. These shots were more or less throw aways that I thought might be interesting if I worked them up right. I kinda like them.

State Wrestling Championships

This tournament is becoming one of my favorite events. Got to shoot the championship matches for the first time in a number of years. Great atmosphere, all 6 classifications in one building, 6 championship matches going on at the same time. I shot the 5A matches.

Sunday hike

Went for a hike up to Silverfalls State Park. Seemed like a pretty nice day when Theo and I left the house. By the time we got to the Falls it was raining pretty steadily. But we walked any way. Storms this winter closed some of the trails, including the trail that goes behind the falls shown in this posting, a trail that takes a person down the valley where there are other falls.

Super Sunday

Some shots I took out to the Farm before watching the Super Bowl .