Last Day in Augusto!

Wow! Eight months down and four to go as we just cruise through the year of 2009. I am still at a loss for how fast this has gone by and what little I think I have accomplished. Anyway....

My Honey and I spent the last weekend of August up in Sisters, Oregon and I say up as we live in Salem so physically it is at a higher elevation. We did this for the celebration of our ten year anniversary and just hung out, shopped a little, ate a little and relaxed a lot!

The shot included is of some geese just about to go behind the trees and you have Mt. Washington in the background ( a bit out of focus, my intent was the geese). I was trying to track them on the fly while my camera was locked into the tripod so was not the easiest thing going but got them anyway and the Mt. in the background was not even noticed until after I looked at my shots. I had actualy tracked them for about three shots prior and this was my last shot of the geese in siloutte.

I am working on some other photos from that early morning rise (5:50 AM, 38 degrees) and most are concentrated on the three sisters mountains and I got lucky and stumbled across some deer off McKenzie highway that didn't flee from me while I shot at a distance. I will post them another time soon and on my website for photo purchase. Just follow the links on the right-> ->

Thanks for reading

Tim

August and Now Everything

I went out to check the blog and realized it has been a month since my last visit here. The title said it all as I was just getting ready to head to Colorado for some backpacking. Well, I did go and had a great time with my two older brothers, one sister-in-law, a nephew and a couple of friends from Summit County, CO.

The shots I have included are from the area as we did our trip in the 'Rawah Wilderness' in North/Central mountains just below the Wyoming border. Beautiful area, but unfortunately we did not get much wildlife coming around. Maybe two many folks or the dogs but that didn't hurt the scenery.

The shots included are a long shot of the area we were headed to up in the "High" country stayed over 9,000 plus the whole time. The other is just that, a trail as it passed a high country lake on the right. The lake was actually on the left but since I was shooting looking back it became on the right.

Another thing I tried with this trip was using a compact Point and Shoot camera. To be exact it is a Panasonic DMC-FS25, with 12.1 megapixels, but choose it for the digital stability when shaking (does okay) and the wider angle lens this shoots with. I am in the process of working some of the photos to see how large I can go before there is any pixelization.

Anyway, it was a great trip and will have more of these kind of photos on my Smugmug account for anyone to purchase.

Tim