Way Late Update: Portland Adult Soapbox Derby!
My bad. The event was August 22nd, but I had sold my laptop and then we moved back to the Midwest two weeks later. I finally got these pictures recovered off of the extra laptop drive and processed. Working with these photos made me miss Portland even more. How long will I go before I ever see a random naked cyclist riding around the block on my way to the grocery store? Like everything else in Portland, this event was full of crazies expressing themselves constructively. No one died that I know of, but the ambulance did put on quite a few miles. Check out the gallery bellow.
Soapbox Derby,
August 2009
Zoomified!
Things I have learned tonight:
- Pink Guava Juice and Vodka go well together. <3 Fubonn
- I was supposed to take the trash out today.
- If your going to write a Wordpress Plugin have the decency to actually explain how it works.
- Forget that Frenchie, Ill just use Shadowbox js.
Here is a 28 image panorama of Mt Hood.
Farm Potluck
Super quick and dirty set from the Abundant Harvest Farm Potluck for Steve and Mish. Check it out!
Steel Bridge HDR
I think I finally have the HDR thing figured out. Anyway here are my first few attempts… Click the picture for the huge ones… /56k NO!!!
and one of the west side…
Destroyers Gallery Up!
Little did I know that this was just to be the start of my day. I bike down to the esplanade only to see the bridges up and the Coast Guard escort flying by. Cruising down the east side of the Willamette I am looking over my shoulder trying to find the perfect spot. The pier I shot from yesterday was closed by on order of the harbor master so that was out. I ended up another 100 feet south this time and set up for the pictures you can see below.
In retrospect I wish that I would have saved some memory so I could take a few more shots of the Canadian fleet that entered after the USS Shoup. Send moneys for more memory cards people! While shooting I ran into the same gentleman who I shared space with yesterday. He was shooting with some old Canon glass, and was relishing the chance to pick up some image stabilized lenses. We were joined by another guy that was going up to Alaska to act as a summer guide for four months. He also had a D200 and was shooting bracketed shots. He expressed interest in my 70-300 mm lens, saying that he wanted to get more reach than his 18-200 mm lens. We swapped for a few shots and got to check out each others’ gear. The 18-200 definitely one upped my wide angle due to the extra reach and being image stabilized, but it overlaps too much with my telephoto to be worth it. With him going up to Alaska in a few weeks and the possibility of getting shots of animals that could have an interest in eating him, I recommended Nikon’s 400 mm 2.8 . It maybe large, but its speed and image stabilization would allow for a few shots before you have to run for your life. If all else fails it would probably make a great club.
USS Shoup, June 2009
Rose Fest Fleet Week!
The Coast Guard ships Fir, Henry Blake, and Tern arrived today. Laura and I biked down to the esplanade and I snagged these photos. It was funny to see all of the tourists on the middle span of the Steel Bridge picking their butts waiting for the ships to come in and then watching them scurry to the sides when the warning siren blared. I hope to make it out tomorrow to catch the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Shoup.
Rose Fest Fleet Week, June 2009
Last Thursday!
Found another event which I will have to be at every month. Man it is hard to find an excuse to hide in the apartment. There are three or four events every night this week. I seem to be spoiled for choice… Check out the Last Thursday Gallery in the Photo Repository.
Last Thursday,
May 2009
Rose Festival Fireworks
What a never ending weekend. I learned a few things from these shots:
- Watch out for suspected rednecks, they can ruin anything…
- Shooting 1-4 second exposures from a vibrating bridge without support = bad
- Shoot ahead of the firework and hope its a good one
- Manual mode, manual mode, manual mode
Timbers!
This was the second game that we went to. It seems the awesome Thirsty Thursday portions are gone this week and we were given what looked like 10 oz beer cups. Everyone was walking around beer akimbo, but I had to limit my intake. I just didn’t have enough hands to take pictures and drink two beers at once.
There were all sorts of awesome at this game. A Timbers win with a penalty kick in the TWO minute overage(overtime) time, with the opposing team’s goalie drawing a yellow card for stalling. Those of us that didn’t crowd into the smoking holding cell outside were also treated to an Oregon Beavers rugby match at halftime.
There is a possibility that I know a may know a lady that knows a guy that could get me a press pass to get onto the sidelines for another game. This is still in the planning stages though. Here’s to hoping they are foolish enough to let me down there…
Old Gallery Added
Here is a set from earlier this year when Laura and I took the new Van up to the Olympic Peninsula area in Washington. We stayed in Port Townsend a few nights and explored the North Eastern side of the Peninsula. It was way too early to climb the mountains, but we still managed to get around. It was also the first trip we went on with our brand new minivan with 188 thousand miles on it!
Olympic Peninsula, March 2009
Lakeside Crawdad Fest Gallery Online!
Yep, we were minding our own business driving back home on the 101 when Laura saw a homemade sign about a festival. The bikes and cooler shifted in the van as she decelerated at a high rate of speed, putting the minivan into a complex maneuver which resulted in a 180 degree turn and our entrance to the Festival. We almost died that day, but damnit, Laura had never before experienced the joy of your very own pound of Crawdads!
It was a sight to behold. Three food vendors, a beer tent, the usual snake oil salesmen were there as well as the county’s only Cajun band. Check out our foodie and townie adventures by clicking on the Photo Galleries link at the top or this shiny new Polaroid.
Lakeside Crawdad Fest, May 2009
New Galleries and .Plan
Uggg… After way too much time spent toiling with my new gallery setup, it has finally earned my stamp of approval (lol). If you look at the upper right hand corner of the page you will see a link to visit the Photo Galleries. I highly recommend that you take a look at the new shots from our trip to the Redwoods, especially the Damnation Creek Trail. I am also hoping to add picture from our trip to the Olympic Peninsula in this new style as well, so check back for that. Pending actual employment there is a good chance that I will be adding images on a regular basis!
Aside from the picture work I somehow got suckered into purchasing domain names for Dad. Over time we hope to develop (no pun intended, or was it?) a place for Tom to show off his photos and maybe even look into a small e-commerce unit for prints. Currently I only have his personal page parked and with splash screen, but after seeing how badly Godaddy is murdering his other domain name I am going to move that as quick as possible. All this and Laura is demanding Thai food tonight. No rest for the unemployed…
And finally because no one reads anything without a picture, check out how happy Timbers Joey gets when the Timbers score. I get the feeling he lives for that moment…
Timbers Season Opener and Theo the Super Puppy!
Moar pictures up! You can see pictures from the Timbers opening game at PGE Park as well as Adam’s new puppy Here!
Ohh, and this is why I don’t take posed group shots anymore…
Massive Gallery Update
After much pain and suffering, I am pleased to announce that I think I may have possibly found a new photo gallery layout! *crickets* I plan on integrating these further, probably by adding a banner and some return navigation, but for now everything seems to be in order. You can check it out here.
I see you looking at me…
I don’t know what is worse…. The squirrel giving me funny looks, or the possibility of neighbors seeing a camera with a telephoto lens on a tripod in my window. EDIT: Click on the picture to view the new gallery format I am working on