Image of the Day: Park lamp with Sun

Park lamp in Drake Park, downtown Bend, OR - Backlight by the sun, the parklamp seems magically illuminated. Most interesting about this image however is the colorful rainbow apparition in the sky below the lamp head. This is not due to image manipulation, or a freak hiccup by my camera equipment. In fact, I was surprised that the little Sony Digicam was even able to capture those funky colors in the sky. Rather, it must have been a thin layer of moisture in the sky, breaking the light, and I was standing at just the right angle to see it - and capture it.

October 27, 2003

Image of the Day: Fall berries

October 26, 2003

Image of the Day: Painted Hills in Black and White

Details converge at the Painted Hills, John Day Fossil Beds, Eastern Oregon

October 25, 2003

Image of the Day: Herding Cows, Fort Rock

It's not often anymore that one sees real cowboys at work. Stopping to admire and photograph the awesome stone formation that is Fort Rock (see yesterday's post), I came across this herde of cows, kicking up the dust while being driven along a fence and across the road to new feeding grounds by two hard working cowboys on their horses and their well-trained dogs.

October 24, 2003

Image of the Day: Fort Rock

[From the Oregon State Parks website] Like a desert mirage, this monolith rises huge out of the barren, immense flatness of Oregon's high desert. An enormous near-circle of towering, jagged rock walls make it seem like a fort. It's an old shield volcano set in what once was a shallow sea in prehistoric times. Sandals found in a nearby cave are the oldest ever discovered in Oregon, dating back around 9,000 years.

October 23, 2003

The alert reader will have noticed, that a week or so ago I promised to put up pictures of my weekend trip to the Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge.

Here they finally are now - with a slight delay, but nonetheless. I must note that the trip, while from a nature/adventure point-of-view absolutely exhilarating, from a photography point-of-view it was rather dissappointing. The sweeping vistas of the endless flat desert were almost too grand to be satisfyingly captured on film, and the game (antelope, mule deer, and even the sage grouse) were extremely skiddish - due to the fact that hunting season for the antelope had just ended, and for the deer had only just begun [insert rant here about how freaking immoral and wrong it is to allow hunting in a wildlife refuge].

Nonetheless, here are the few shots that did turn out somewhat. If you look real hard, you can even see a couple of antelope in there....[note to self: get a big giant wildlife lense as soon as you win the lottery, or score that next juicy freelance job].