Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge - located just south of Salem, Oregon - is one of a handful dotting the Willamette Valley. While these refuges can be ...
Walking Portland
We had this book for years before bothering to crack it open. When we finally did, a whole new world opened under our feet. Portland Hill Walks, and ...
Nibble Comes for a Visit
We had a fun visitor last weekend. My sister Karen was out of town for a long weekend so we watched her cat Nibble back at our place. She liked ...
Welcome to the Sausage Factory
Sausage was once a euphemism for "all the left-over stuff at the butcher shop you don't want to know about". Thankfully, we've grown out of that ...
Enchanted
Growing up in the lowlands, I was sold an image of mountains. Mountains had pointed peaks, steep granite cliffs, gnarled fanciful forests, tranquil ...
Time-Lapse Photography
Sometimes, the most interesting aspect of a scene is impossible to capture in a still frame - swirling clouds, the movement of tides, patterns of ...
The Bears of Bella Coola
Halfway up the British Columbia coast - between Vancouver and Prince Rupert - is a wild locale that's easy to miss, but impossible to forget - Bella ...
Blending Images in Photoshop
Sometimes, there simply isn't any way to get the image you want with a single frame. Most often, this will occur when an image has a very high ...
Rowena Crest / Tom McCall Point
I left home around 5am to drive the 1.5 hours out to Rowena Crest to catch the sunrise. It might seem a bit extreme to get moving so early for ...
And It Was…
Another in my short series: "About the Shot"... When you see a set of aging building with this much character, it's not hard to know there's a good ...