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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 [...]
More horsey business
As mentioned previously, Perrie’s dad and stepmother keep two horses on their property. I don’t remember what Rojo’s story is, but Shirle used to ride Gracie for dressage, and later jumping, if I remember correctly. Anyway, most of the property is devoted to the horses and related things, like barns, hay storage and manure piles. [...]
A horsey weekend
Perrie and I recently took an extended weekend off to visit her dad and step-mom at their new home near Calgary. We made the 14-hour drive (not including a couple of geocaching stops) in one day, arriving at “Graceview” around 11 p.m. local time. We weren’t quite sure what we’d be up to during our [...]
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 [...]
Oregon Zoo
Here are some more pictures from our trip to the Oregon Zoo last weekend. We pretty much saw the whole thing in about four hours at a fairly reasonable, not-traveling-with-kids pace. If you look at the zoo map, we went clockwise around the park starting with the Great Northwest section, through the polar bears to [...]
A trip to the zoo
Perrie had the day off on Monday, and the Oregon Zoo had free admission, so we went for a visit. I’d been to the zoo before for concerts, but never had time to really look at the animals. As it turned out, the animals were very friendly. You could get remarkably close to them, and [...]
Thomas
Pets in general, and particularly cats, are notoriously hard to photograph. (I talked about that in an earlier post about shooting pets.) But Perrie’s cat Thomas is clearly getting used to having me around. The other day he was sleeping on his “Kitty Hooch” while we ate dinner. The light was decent and he looked [...]
Spirit of Christmas
Kevin De Lucio, 3, recoils as his parents, Baudelia Martinez and Luis De Lucio help him feed an alpaca in the petting zoo at Spirit of Christmas celebrations Nov. 24 in downtown Gresham. The City of Gresham kicked off its holiday season with The Spirit of Christmas celebrations in the historic downtown area a couple [...]
Shooting pets
Marie (right) and Christian Hammer try to coax Marie’s cat Amity from under her bed Wednesday during a photo shoot in Massillon, Ohio.Photographing animals is difficult. Most of the pets you see in photos are pros–they tried out for the role and were selected because they look good and, more importantly, are comfortable in a [...]