Category: Play Time

1st Annual Vintage Classic – Eugene MX

I went out to Territorial Motocross Park on Sunday with my son to watch the old dirt bikes run. Along with the run of the mill bikes there were Maco’s, Husky’s, Hodaka’s and all kinds of other fun bikes to watch. Being only the second motocross I have shot I am still way behind on…

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Madras Weekend

I think it was a very productive weekend in Madras. The airshow gets better every year over here. I did a lot of shooting on the static displays using multiple frame for HDR. The morning light on Saturday was really nice. There could be some good B17 images later this week. Saturday evening gave way…

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Bigfoot Sightings!!

I now have hard evidence of more than one Bigfoot near Blue River, Oregon!

A fellow photographer went up to Blue River on Saturday morning to do a little shooting. This venue was something that neither one of us had watched or shot in the past. It was the Chainsaw Art Festival in Blue River.

There were about ten carvers from around the country taking part in creating works for sale and in competition. Carvings ranged in size from some pond turtles not much over a foot across to a Bigfoot about ten feet tall and there were a number of park benches that were about eight feet long. Competition included starting with a whole log blank with the bark on it and ending up with a finished carving in one hour.

The tools used were as varied as the finished products. I counted seven different chainsaws in one carvers work area all with different size and shape bars on them. Angle grinders, over-size rotary grinders and hand tools including hammers and chisels were to be seen. Another well used tool was the propane torch for burning the wood to bring out grain detail was found in about all camps. Some were the small hand held variety that you see on most work benches and others were using the large size that connect to the five gallon tanks. Leaf blowers were used to blow off chips and dust as they worked.

It was a great way to kill three hours and see an art form that many never get the chance to see. Beach cities have sand castles and the artists with chainsaws play in the hills. Be sure to click on the images below for the larger images. All images were taken with a Canon 7D and 70-200mm F4 IS lens.

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Woodburn Drag Strip

We spent the day at Woodburn Dragstrip  as guests of RAM Trucking and Brian Hough Racing. It was a chance to give the new Canon 7D a trial run at the races. I will say that I am impressed and it is a keeper.

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PhotoZone Juried Show 2013

I have done pretty well in past years at the PhotoZone show. I was forced to skip it last year as I was in Chicago but I am back this year with three images. I should know early in the week how many of them, if any, make the cut. I entered the images below….

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Our Guard Bird

This male Anna’s Hummingbird has taken up sentry duty at our front door. There is a feeder there and he has a pair of hiding places where he sits in wait of other hummingbirds headed into “his” feeder.

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Feather Detail

On a visit to the craft store the other day I ran across this feather accent. It started yelling “Take me home!” so I just had to get it out of that store. It gave me something to shoot on a rainy morning. These are pretty close to 1:1 macro. Full frame sensor and a…

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Chinese Geese

We went and wandered around the park for a while this afternoon and ran across a family of Chinese Geese that were pretty well behaved and didn’t mind the sound of the shutter clicking at them. Next time I go I will have to remember to put a few peanuts in my pocket. There was one very friendly tree squirrel that came running up to me begging for food.

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Hotlanta = Not ~ Wetlanta = Yep

Some pre-race images from the race that wasn’t this weekend in Atlanta. Over an inch of rain and still coming down.

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Smoke Play

I need some shots for a “Simplicity” theme and decided some smoke images would be fun. They may be a little complex for the theme but it was fun to get out the smoke and flash and play around a little bit in Photoshop. Be sure to click on the images to see the larger ones.

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