Farewell to August

Sunday night, 8/29/10. Alternate.

Monday, 8/30/10.

Justin's tree fort. Compare to Milred's holly tree, 5/24/10.

Bailey Beach. This dog chased a seagull towards us for several hundred yards. Here, the chase has been given up.

Looking south towards Gold Beach.


Tuesday, 8/31/10. Burned stump. That's moss looking like blurry fern; note the pine needles for scale.

Sweet fern, sweet fern, tell me is my darling still true?

Sweet Fern
The Carter Family

A little hard for this Nevada field guy to get used to.

Sweet fern, sweet fern, I'll be just as happy as you


I spotted this cable on the way up. I thought, "Oh, another rusty cable shot. Whoop de doo."
On the way back down, I heard something in the blackberry bushes, and looked right at this shot. Alternate

Self portrait, 8/31/10.

Quick! Sunset at Backbone.



There's one 'translucent tube' alternate.Here's a couple close ups from the Sony.



Compare Devil's Backone tonight to this shot from Daisy Knob, Morgan County Kentucky, 9/27/07.
Or this one, from central Nevada, 9/25/09.

Stories, photos, and cameras

I've been having fun putting together themed collections from 2010 over the last few days. The links in the titles and pictures open to them.

The People of 2010

The Pyramid Tree

Goat Mountain

I've also written a couple of anecdotes about my cameras.
Sony DSC-H1.

Nikon D5000.

Lobster Creek

Swimming!

Family on the Rogue.




Looking up Lobster Creek. Looking up at me.

Overlooking the Rogue. An attempted inverse of this favorite (from Frankport (1/21/10).

I wanted this to be more successful.

These are interesting. The dramatically different rocks at Otter Point have them too (shot 2/16/10).


Looking now, I see that this is lit from below from reflected sunlight off the Rogue.

It was a beautiful spot for my first swim in the Rogue (from the bank).


Last minute for a final swim. I barely made it.

Everybody's got 'em some kind of past, now and here comes that old snake in the grass now
Guy Clark
Good To Love You Lady

Thanks for the relaxing afternoon.

Gold Beach Sunset at Patterson Bridge at 40mph.

Intentional echo of this shot from 4/18/10.



Alternate.


Daytime alternate. Reference to Ohio County Courthouse, Hartford, Kentucky, 9/17/07.

This morning's reality.

After seeing this, I decided to write out the story of how I came to own the Sony DSC-H1 and became a guy who photographs life's moments. Here it is.

Port Orford

This came out looking a little like a favorite shot from 2/7/10.


Reeds

Port Orford dock overlook. Sony with tele adapter pries into a conversation about Nikon cameras. D80 I think I heard.




I found the old jail.

Jail chimney alternate.

I played some fiddle into the open window.




Union gas station.



This old map is cool, 1:100,000 from the Netherlands.

There was a random stop at a model train enthusiast's home.


A daylight miniature reference to my moonlight Kearsarge shot.

Richard Smith was very cordial and interesting.

Landslide work had us stopped on the 101 and saw a whale breach. Very difficult to shoot. One, and two.