Redwoods National Park Panorama

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.

Beginner’s Wheat

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.

Ancient Nerd

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…

Paint, Portrait, Camera

Another great open house at North Coast Seed Building this year. This time I made some portraits for the willing, and summarily turned seventeen of the photos into paintings. Thanks for coming down!

The SS Shasta River Queen

The River Queen was moored along the banks of the Willamette river in downtown Portland for decades. She’s now moored on the Columbia, in a ghostly sort of way. More information:

Radio call letters: WH6754
Built: San Francisco, CA, 1922.
Length: 216′ 7″
Beam: 63′ 8″
Draft: 12′
Speed: 13 knots
Horsepower: 1200
Propulsion: Steam
Autos: 55  Passengers: 468  Gross Tonnage: 919
Name Translation: Shasta is taken from the mountain of the same name in northern California.
This is actually four images stitched together; a larger version is available at www.flickr.com/photos/youloveben.

Headbutt

Yep, that’s me. Headbutting a gate. But… a large tree actually did the damage. I’m just posing. Photo by Peter Kim.

The Anteater

I still haven’t figured out what this is… combine part? Old buggy suspension? Any ideas?