A Warm Repose.

Well, after talking about my mental illnesses, the deaths of my family members, and the renewal of life with finding my lost dog, I’m not sure what other deeply emotional experience I can communicate.  So I guess I won’t.  We can’t have life altering experiences all the time.  Sometimes it is nice to just relax [...]

Life's New Beginning

I am very happy today.  My dog is safely home.  After three weeks of being lost in the high desert in the Trout Creek mountains just outside McDermitt, Nevada, a rancher found Lisa and took her home.  He gave me a call on  Thursday evening.  I drove over on Friday and picked her up and [...]

Oak Tree, Black & White

I’ve been down around Albany and Corvallis lately and they have these lovely, foggy mornings.  I went to elementary school in Corvallis and these fall, foggy mornings that are brisk remind me of when I was a wee little lad.  I walked around Chip Ross park in Corvallis and there were a couple of oak [...]

Tulip Leaves

This is a picture I captured from the Tulip Festival in Woodburn, Oregon.  I rented a macro 105mm lens from Pro Photo Supply in Portland.  I was playing with Depth of Field by using a low aperture setting (f/3.2, which was the lowest setting I could use with the bright light conditions and available shutter [...]