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Oregon Eclectica
This week’s post will wrap up this mini-series from Tillamook County, Oregon, and its coastline. I don’t have another visit on the calendar yet, but as it is one of my wife’s favorite places, I’m sure I’ll be back. This is good, because I have barely scratched the surface here. This post presents three pairs…
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Forgotten in Tillamook
I’m always excited to stumble upon an old abandoned vehicle like the one above—they are just so photogenic!—but finding it paired with the sign above was priceless. The textures on vehicles like this are always wonderful, too. Surprisingly, the headlights look pristine; they must be made of glass rather than plastic. It’s pretty clear that…
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Tillamook County Woodlands
Part of what makes Tillamook County nice from a photographic standpoint is the diversity of subject matter. You can’t know from looking at it, but the image above was within 20 yards of a seaside cliff. As is typical for the Pacific Northwest, the persistent wetness results in lots of moss covering everything that stands…
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Tillamook Coast
Last week’s post showed nothing but views to the west from our favorite getaway house in Oceanside, Oregon. From that same deck, the image above looks south along the Tillamook County coast towards Cape Lookout. The changeable weather in late fall and winter is definitely the photographer’s friend here, because so many things can happen…
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Storm Rock Study
Our reigning favorite place to go for a week is a house high up on a ridge in Oceanside, Oregon. There are elevated views across a wide swath of ocean and coastline. The views are amazing, but are somewhat constrained by some evergreen trees. One of the unobstructed views is of Storm Rock, featured in…
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Birds of Barr Lake
Well, last week I claimed that this week we would venture to the Oregon coast, but after spending a few hours at Barr Lake State Park I had a lot of bird pictures that I wanted to share. So Oregon will have to wait one more week. I had not been to Barr Lake before.…
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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
This week’s post is a little random. After my long series on Japan, I have a lot of catching up to do with my images, both in terms of editing and blogging. For this post, I decided to share an assortment of images from the city I live in, Castle Pines. No one of these…
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Casper Echoes and Light
Late last year we visited my daughter and her husband twice in Casper, Wyoming, once at Thanksgiving and once just after Christmas. On the first trip, I heard about the Goose Egg Inn, which was about a 15-minute drive out of town. There are still lots of favorable reviews of the former bed & breakfast…
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Herons and Owls Aplenty
A few weeks ago I revisited Cherry Creek State Park specifically to photograph the nesting great blue herons. I did this two years ago, too, which is covered in a previous post. I approached the rookery from a different direction this time, which allowed me to get much closer to the nests. Last time I…
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Japan Wrap-up
Sixteen posts on one trip is a lot, but it was a two-week trip, after all, in new places with lots of time to photograph lots of new things. I ended up with a little over 2,500 images and have now published 119 of them on this website. Of these, 102 were taken with my…