A few days ago a wild praying mantis appeared on my front porch here on the ranch, perched on the edge of a plastic water tray under a potted plant. I’d been told that praying mantises existed here in rural southern Oregon, but had never seen one during nearly ten years of living here. I […]
Archive | Photography
Fall photos of the ranch
Walking on the ranch through our woods on a fall day with a camera is an invitation to spend hours taking a series of photos of every little scene along the way: “Ooh, what a nice tree!” or “how sharp those thistles look in silhouette” or “those red leaves stand out so brightly against the […]
PhotoCycle – awesome info for photographers
If you like photography, it’s always good to hear from master photographers about how they get some of their great shots. My old friend Marc Silber has put together a video called PhotoCycle where he speaks with Michael Adams, son of the photography giant Ansel Adams, about some of the techniques and process used by […]
PhotoCycle with Marc Silber – FastCompany.TV
My friend and client Marc Silber has put up a video trailer that explains his most recent project, a PhotoCycle on FastCompany.TV. I love the photo Marc took of Annie Liebowitz on Marc’s blog, where she is standing in front of her famous nude portrait of Demi Moore. There’s a lot of life in Annie […]
Spring is here at last
Just a couple of weeks ago our grandkids were building little snowmen after what was probably the last snowfall of the season: It seems like Spring only arrived yesterday, in that we haven’t had to have a fire going in the woodstove the last couple of days. That’s a lovely break as it seems like […]
Dark photos of a white hailstorm.
We’ve been getting a lot of hail the last few days. The temperature here on the ranch has been flirting with freezing for the last couple of weeks. The snow is mostly gone from last week, but the hail is quite something. These are color photos, but there wasn’t a a lot of light and […]
Snowing today…
Ranch life has its perks and today was full of them. It snowed pretty steadily from about midnight last night to this afternoon, when the sun broke out and we bundled up to go out and look at the winter wonders. This is an oak tree up the hill from our house, burdened with about […]
Recent photos
I’ve been taking walks lately, usually in the afternoon, sometimes just before dark. The lighting on these walks varies from direct sunlight to light that is reflected off the clouds, to the gold of sunset and the “crepuscular” light of twilight. Always a challenge to know how to shoot photos of some of the views […]
Clearing of head
Every once in a while, when doing web design, it is necessary to get up from the computer and get out and take a walk to clear one’s head. I usually take my favorite walking stick, my dogs (Max & Xena), camera (Pentax K-10D), gun (holstered 9-mil Sig Sauer), hat and gloves, because I live […]
Impossibly blue sky
The sky here in Southern Oregon is so clear on some days that it seems impossibly blue. This photo I shot yesterday about 11:30 AM.