This was a vista from the fabulous voyage into deeper California with my buddy Mikah Sykes and (the infamous) Lazer, searching for yucca flowers in overdrive. It’s not you, no… it’s an inside joke. Just don’t eat all the dolmas, k?
Great studio shoot today for FOX 12 Oregon: Amy Troy, Mark Nelsen, Shauna Parsons, Wayne Garcia, Nick Krupke, Pete Ferryman, Kimberly Maus, and Tony Martinez came by the studio for updated headshots. In fact, the talented anchors Nora Hart and Andy Carson finally met each other face to face for the first time, and in my studio no less! As Ice Cube would say… today was a good day.
Saw some people climbing around in this in their flip flops. Taking pictures, aloof to the moment.
It was a tense, but somehow peacefully balanced moment.
Across the highway from Eastern Oregon’s famous shoe tree, precariously built next to a wandering stream, this old place is barely upright. But it’s beauty, it’s endurance… it beckons to be appreciated, all sense of security aside. It kind of redefines the notion of wild abandon.
The rain’s back; guess I’ll take a nap…
These trees are far too tall for the traditional photo format, so I stitched a few shots together in order to try and capture the perspective a little better.
While visiting the park, I learned that these trees grow to such great heights in order to sequester the perpetual fog in the area.
There’s so much more accessible water in the sky compared to what’s available in the ground, that they evolved over time to scrape the clouds as they rolled through.
Just amazing.
Trying to do a little dark-field photography of some of my favorite liquors. Rule number one? GET RID OF DUST. I was amazed how much dust shows up in this style of studio lighting.
Oregon’s Highway 97 is one of the more banal, yet beautiful routes to adventure on if you give it your attention and some extra time. A slow, meandering highway through Eastern Oregon, there are so many beautiful moments like this early wheat crop. It’s what inspired the original Windows XP desktop.
Got a chance to see all of Portland’s top Internet marketing geniuses gathered together in their annual networking social. Water-balloon fights, wonderful conversation, some awesome drinks provided by @thegrowlerguys, and a charity that deserves attention: Harper’s Playground, because inclusion rocks.
This is a close-up shot of the long-gone Mississippi Street Nerd. I can’t remember who threw these iconographic nerds all over the places, but I snapped this image as the wood underneath started splitting from the summer heat. Ah, texture…
