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More spring birds, and other friends
I brought my camera for another walk around Lower Shaker Lake yesterday morning. Bird-wise, the most exciting thing I saw was a probable golden-winged warbler (I didn’t see it well enough to identify it, but that’s what someone else said it was). Apparently they’re not unheard of, but quite rare around here. Sadly, it was [...]
Sidney, Nebraska
Probably the coolest thing about moving from Portland to Cleveland was the opportunity to drive across the continent. I’ll write another post with details about the trip, but suffice to say that mostly due to the major weather system chasing us across the midwest, we didn’t have much time to linger or stray from our [...]
Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge
The miracle of a four-day weekend (even if you work most of the day on Friday) is that you have time to do everything you normally do on the weekend, get caught up on some backlog of things you’ve been meaning to do, and still have time to go for a walk. So Sunday Perrie [...]
Recent hikes
I’ve been a bad blogger lately … I’ve been busy, though, with travels and shooting a bunch of exciting things that I can’t share with you yet. But here are some photos I can share, from a pair of hikes Perrie and I took recently. The first, a month ago today, was at the Wapato [...]
Cape Cod
For the final day of our honeymoon, Perrie and I tackled Cape Cod. Leaving early from our place in Plymouth, we stopped for breakfast in Hyannis, where every business is connected with the Kennedy’s. “The Kennedy’s used to eat here.” “Jack Kennedy always got his hair cut here.” “Mrs. Kennedy bought a postcard here.” We [...]
On the Freedom Trail (part 2)
To continue where we left off, after touring the Old North Church, Perrie and I walked across the Charlestown Bridge to Charlestown, and then over to the Charlestown Navy Yard, home of the USS Constitution. The USS Constitution (not to be confused with the U.S. Constitution) is billed as “the world’s oldest commissioned warship afloat.” Yes, [...]
On the Freedom Trail (part 1)
On Day 4 of our honeymoon (Thursday), Perrie and I crammed two days worth of sightseeing into about 8 hours of touring in Boston. But I won’t shortchange you with just a single blog post—I’ll spread it out over two because the city is just so photogenic. To get to Boston, we took the commuter [...]
Newport, R.I.: The Breakers and more
On Day 3 of our week in New England, Perrie and I drove down to Newport, Rhode Island, just an hour or so from our place in Plymouth. [Side note: as a person who has lived most of his life in pretty sparsely-populated places, it always amazes how close things are on the east coast. [...]
Salem, Mass.
On our second full day in Massachusetts, Perrie and I set off for Salem, home to Nathaniel Hawthorne and some witches. Or not witches. This was the only really rainy day of our trip, and even then the skies held up most of the day. We poked around various shops and historical sites on the [...]
A day in Plymouth
After getting married Sept. 15 in Kingston, Perrie and I spent most of the next day driving to Plymouth, Mass., where we had a house rented for the week. For Monday, our objective was to take a relatively easy day checking out the town. First, though, a brief history lesson: Plymouth is, not coincidentally, located [...]
Little Big Burger and Boxer Sushi
Here’s a clip from an assignment I did for Oregon Business a couple months ago, along with some of the out takes. I was sent out to photograph local restauranteurs Micah Camden and Katie Poppe at their flagship Little Big Burger store in the Pearl District, as well as their new restaurant Boxer Sushi. It [...]
Vintage base ball at Fort Vancouver
Many organizations have annual company baseball games, but few do it like Fort Vancouver. Every year, employees and volunteers at the fort play a game of base ball. In keeping with the nature of the National Historic Site, though, they wear 1860s uniforms and play by 1860s rules. Among other things, that means the umpire [...]
The long drive home
Just one more post from the trip that Perrie and I made to Alberta at the beginning of the month. Since we’d planned to split the drive home over two days, we decided to take a different route. From Okotoks to Frank, Alta., we followed our original route (through Elko, B.C., which is only notable [...]
Frank Slide
One of the unexpected highlights of our recent trip to Alberta was a visit to the Frank Slide. It wasn’t something we deliberately planned to include in our route, but since our route passed right through it (literally) we decided to make a stop. We didn’t have time on the way up, so we point [...]
Into Calgary
Though it wasn’t intentional, our recent visit to Alberta (see post 1) coincided with the Calgary Stampede. And not just any stampede: this year was the centennial stampede, so everybody was going over and above the usual fanfare to put on an extra-special show. I read somewhere that the first stampede parade, in 1912, drew [...]
An unexpected visitor
It is often said that the best camera to use is the one you have with you. The morning of July 7, that happened to be my cell phone. I haven’t used its camera very much—and it is clearly limited, compared with my Nikon DSLRs—but when it’s what you have with you, it is the [...]
Sanctuary at the Leighton Art Centre
On our visit to Alberta earlier this month, between trips to Spruce Meadows, Okotoks, and the local tack and feed shop we found time to visit the Leighton Art Centre which sits in the picturesque countryside somewhere between Okotoks, Millarville, Black Diamond and Calgary. The skies ranged from clear to large cumulonimbus clouds and there [...]
Naturalists
As much as I enjoy exploring the world on my own, it’s even better when you’re in the company of an expert: a geologist or a local historian, for example, because they can point out and explain so many things that you’d never see. A few weeks ago I got to walk through Smith & [...]
Up close with nature
Perrie and I took advantage of a nice afternoon a couple weeks ago to take a walk through Smith & Bybee Wetlands Natural Area, just a couple miles from our house in North Portland. As always, there was plenty of wildlife to enjoy. (Some of it was not alive. Interesting note: opossums typically have a [...]
Portland Squared
What happens when you let dozens of photographers loose on a single square mile of the city? ASMP Oregon put that question to the test May 19 in an event called Portland Squared. Here’s the idea: the organizers mapped out a square mile at the nominal center of Portland—the Burnside Bridge—and broke it up into [...]
Out and about in Pennsylvania
On my trip to Pennsylvania a couple of weeks ago, since I had more than enough time to get from Pittsburgh to State College, I decided to get off the direct route for at least a few miles and see some of the countryside. After driving east on highway 22 to Holidaysburg, I skipped I-99 [...]
Wapato Jail/Kelley Point Park
Here are a few more photos from a geocaching expedition to Kelley Point Park back in February that I forgot about until now. Since we’ve found most of the caches at Kelley Point Park before, we stopped en route to look for a couple more around the Wapato Jail. I’d heard much about the jail [...]
Warrior Rock Lighthouse
A couple of weeks ago, it was such a nice sunny day Perrie and I abandoned the backup of housework and homework and headed out to Sauvie Island for walk and some geocaching. It was a pretty arbitrary choice, but it turned out to be perfect. After driving to the very end of the road [...]
Yet another Saturday morning in the Pearl District
A few weeks ago, Perrie made her annual pilgrimage to the tax man, affording me the better part of an hour to walk around Portland’s Pearl District with my camera. Two years ago, the weather was gorgeous; last year, not so much. This year, it was supposed to be nasty but turned out just fine. [...]