White Orchid

I actually found this in the wild and shot it with my cell phone. Well, the wild around here was at Safeway. :-) The cell phone part is true! I love orchids. Too bad I don't have what it takes to grow them.

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Sprint Jet Boats

Fun day yesterday, with a sunburn to prove it, at the the USSBA boat races near Albany. They are CRAZY fast running these boats up to 100 MPH down a narrow 3 foot deep cut is a field. If you are curious, go to http://www.ussbaracing.com/. And if you live in Washington state, there are 3 more races this summer. Go, it's fun! (I'll have more.) :-)

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Just Yellow

Not sure what this is but I like the solitude of this very small flower. Serenely sitting there.....

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Forrest Trillium

I love Trillium flowers. Very short lived and a little hard to find. They start out white and then pinkish, like this one, as they age. I think I got this one right! :-)

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Off The Page

I love Crocus. They are the first flower of the season and I'm compelled to photograph them every year. But, how many of the same images of a Crocus do I need to post every year. Hence the edit. I had seen this before and decided to give it a shot and I really like it. The actual image of the flowers are largely untouched, just the perimeter modified.

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Dragonhead

From the dragon boats that compete on the Willamette River during the Rose Festival.

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Help Me!

This was an easy one to capture because he couldn't get out! I heard the buzzing of wings and had a look, took a photo. I'm sure he made it out okay though......

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Weeds are flowers too

This is one of the ugly weed flowers at the Oregon coast. I don't know what it is called, but it looks much better back-lit than in real life.

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Wild Dasies

Three pretties from a walk.

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Dusting

Riding into town the other day I saw this guy flying around. I'm always mesmerized watching their acrobatics while doing their job. This spray job was a little tougher, I suspect, because of the tree line near the road and the power lines he flew under to do the job. He was never close to the lines and always in full control, or so it appeared. Fun to watch! Lucky to be in the right place at the right time too.

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Do not pick the flowers. DON'T!

Next to all these lovely little pink flowers was a wasp keeping watch over passers by, insuring no one goes home with a flower that didn't belong to them. Ok, not true. I believe he was hanging out and drinking water until I shoved my lens into his face and scared him away. :-)

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GoldFinchDay

Today I had around 15 finches around the feeder. Fortunately I have a couple trees, a porch and rain protection because I needed all three. The birds didn't seem to mind the weather and I was better prepared. :-) They sure are pretty birds.

These are all with my 400mm and heavily cropped. It is a cheap inexpensive and older Tokina, so they are all a bit soft. I need a proper blind to get closer to these little joules!

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Bottom's Up

Another from the tulip fields that are in full bloom. So again I grabbed my fisheye lens and my wireless trigger and headed for the bottom of the tulip beds. Not sure this exactly what I expected, but I sure did see a lot of people copying what I did. :-) I think it warrants a revisit for sure. Oh, Happy Easter!

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Blooming Flowers!

A couple recent flower images. Using the fisheye, the tulip is great against the blue sky. (It was a miracle that there was a blue sky!) William in the daffodils was just for fun. :-)

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Daffodil

There are so many of these guys this time of year but I shot a pic and I like it any way. :-)

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White Crocus

Not really a "white crocus" but you get the idea. It was a lovely dusting of snow the other day. We only see snow once every other year and it is a treat. (Not to those who endure it for months every year, I know.)

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Crocus are up

I noticed these little guys up and reaching for the spring. I'll grab more shots when the darker purple rise up. As a side note, this is another shot from my fisheye lens at 10mm. (I love this lens!) The camera was flat on the ground and about 2 inches from the flowers. I did not expect to get this sort of close-up capability from this lens. Cool perspective too!

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Busy!

Railroad repair equipment: Lots of actuators, motors, levers and wheels to do a bunch of things to make the train track better. This is an awfully busy piece of machinery, done in HDR, all in fun.

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'Tis the Season!

Already well into December and only 4 posts for the month of November. So darned busy with the real world! I took a pure for fun photo break tonight with William in front of our tree. I used my DIY beauty dish over a flash on low power, full manual, Slightly up & camera left. My 50mm lens was at f1.4 so I could get the lights in a lovely blur. I think it worked well. :-)

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Yellow Wires

1:1 macro of a gold pendant. This is for a macro talk I am going to give on the 18th.

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