End of February - Leap Day!

Wow! Can you believe it? Last day of Feb. Tomorrow and it is "leap day" where those folks born on this day get to celebrate their birthdays. Must be hard doing that on a four year cycle. Let me rant for a bit here and get you some updates.

I did post three photos to my smugmug account on Tuesday night and am getting closer to posting at least two a night to start to build up the stock out there. I have plenty of images on the PC to review and get out for sale and display. I will have two pieces of matted and framed work in the silent auction for the BTA at their annual awards program in March. I am trying to find the positive in my lack of time to do all the things I would like to do and have changed up my work out routines to hopefully allow me to get a little more done.

Have been doing some successful commuting by bike to work this month, but have flatted three times in four weeks?! What gives? This last one I actually had a nice little shard of glass in the tire and it pinned holed the tube. I should not have swapped out my specialized armadillo tires this early. I am going to keep patched tubes with me for the commute as it gets a little pricey putting in new tubes every time. I have recently added some more Horsepower to my two wheeled collection. I bought a new Ducati MS620 motorcycle to help with gas savings and be my back-up when I do not ride the bicycles. I do sometimes commute with my spouse when it is raining as she only works two blocks away and I get to stay pretty dry that way in her car!

I recently dumped off some photos from my older Pentax istDS and had a couple shots of the moon with Mt. Hood. I didn't notice it right away that afternoon so the moon was getting pretty high up but it is pretty cool nonetheless. The shot was taken back in January from my back deck in Salem. Hope you will enjoy it!

Gotta go work on taxes or something now. If you get a chance, please check out my smugmug photo work and if there is something you might like to see let me know!

Tim

First One of February!

Hello!
Looks like I am averaging about two weeks between postings so far. I do not lead a very exciting life as a government worker and aspiring photographer.

I was intending to get out to one of the near-by National Wildlife Refuges but have not made it. I did take a day off during the week, but ended up riding my bike and running errands that had to get done. On Saturday 2/9 it was such great weather wise here in the Willamette Valley I needed to get out and ride and was able to get in a nice two hour ride North of Salem in Polk and Yamhill counties.

I am still working on some photos (a ton) that need to be reviewed, maybe processed or held for later. Then I need to update the smugmug location and looking at a redesign of my basic website.

I will be contributing two pieces of work (for silent auction), all framed, matted and signed that will be part of the BTA's - Alice B. Toeclips banquet/awards in March. Check out their site over on the right hand side to get more information.

To end I will include a sunrise from back in late October 2007 shot from my back deck. I have done some major cropping in so if you enlarge it, it shall not look so great. Will post again!

Tim -