#3 in the world!!!

I have to let you know, I gor third place with this photo of William in the DPreview Challenge contest "Smiles". I feel privileged as #1 went to someone in Italy, #2 to a person in Romania, and then me in nowhere. :-) Made my week!!!

Fountain

Taken in front of the Oregon State Capitol Building. Nice day.

WorldWide Pinhole Day

I converted an old Polaroid today for pinhole and this is what I got. Looks like I need to refine something, but it i fairly sharp, considering.

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Image Quality?

It's relative. :-) This is a 3 shot pinhole panorama out my back door. Why? Sunday is Worldwide Pinhole Day. Go to http://www.pinholeday.org/ to get more information. What does that mean to you? Break out your body cap, a piece of foil, some tape and a pin to convert your camera to the new revolution. The pinhole revolution.

Looking for something.....

Coming in for a landing

Spring bee in one of our apple trees.

Crossing the Willamette

Boardwalk

Flowers on the campus garden

Little Boy...

They will be 8 weeks old in 2 days and they are at the height of cute. The largest and whitest of the litter has found a new home tonight. :-)

Sliding In

Just out having a bit of fun!

A Flower in the yard 2

A Flower in the yard

Another Morning

These past few I didn't get right but at least they are something. It seems as time goes on the blog has become less and less important, therefore more difficult to post to. I am also noticing image quality going down.....not what it was for a while to me any way. Not that I am stopping or anything but....... we will see.

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Morning

Sunset

Nothing you have not seen but like to see. I liked it.

William at the Park

5 Girls

It took 30 tries to get this shot. It is NOT easy!

Spring Break 2: Just Weeds

Spring Break at the coast

3 Ugly Dogs

Ok, they are not ugly but pretty dang cute. :-) These 3 boys are the largest of the 4 boys we have and are 4 1/2 weeks old. The one on the right is so laid back he fell to sleep while the other two were trying to get out of the basket. (Rascals!)

Finals are done and Spring Break is here!

This does not say "Spring" to you? :-) The bridge around this HO scale train is a final team project for one of my classes. We engineer and fabricate bridges then stress test them. For fun we run a train through them too.

Students design bridges in advanced 3D software then do analysis on their designs to see how close they can predict real world results. Bridges are made of ABS plastic from the 3D printer we have in class, then assembled. We add weight to the bridges until the bridge bends .050 of an inch. (We DO NOT break them!) This bridge held 28 pounds which is a lot considering the frailty of the bridge! The best bridge held 31 pounds.



Oh, everyone go to Kelly's page and wish him a happy birthday today!

A sad day....

And the lowered head of this flower caught the emotion. Sad day? Yes, it was a day of cutbacks at the college. We have lost 8 teachers and 5 programs due to budget cuts: Collision repair, Digital Imaging, Theater, RHVAC and Photography. People I know. Some programs may come back when budgets allow, but photography will not.

The Carts!

One of the go carts fabricated by the welding class at LBCC where I teach in time trials. They scavenged working scooter motors and attached them to cart frames of their own design. A wheel fell off, one tipped over, some screws came loose and they all had fun.

Devotion to a cause

The wrong one though. At least that is what is portrayed in the play Cabaret! If you don't know, the play is in the pre-WWII times Hitler was on the way in and sex was recreational. I knew this would be a powerful image but I didn't know how much until I saw it on the monitor. Makes me wonder if the public *really* knew who and what they were aligning to. Scary image.



(Yes, IQ is off but it does not take away from the message.)

Moonset on Mary's Peak

More puppies.....

Life is a Stage

Ten Days Old

Back Stage

Today's Post

Tired of puppies yet?

Let me know when I am done posting puppy photos. (Or when you are done looking at them.) It has been a year sense we have had any and they are so fun to photograph. They are for sale and I am not sure there is anywhere off limits. In fact I believe the great-great grandparents are fro England. (Just kidding Ann, shipping would be *SO* much on one of these guys. BUT, if you happened to be in the states in about 8 weeks one could go as regular baggage I believe........:-)

New Puppies!

We thought we had another week before puppies were due but to our surprise we have a new litter of 10 very light colored golden retrievers today. This is her first litter and we wanted to be here to assist as first litters can be stressful for first time mommies. But when we got home there she was with 4 on her own, perfect. Mommy and babies are doing fine. :-)

Behind the scenes

There are more photos of rehearsals at the Cabaret! blog.

Yesterday Spring Sprung......

.....Today Winter Returns. :-)

Crocus Allready!

Spring is trying to pop already! On the way up to my office this morning this little guy was not there. At 4:10 when walking out here it was in all its glory. Maybe I only like crocus because they are first up in the spring, I don't know. But I like them. :-)

Angela

From a hasty shoot this morning. Her heart was not in it. :-(

My Kitchen

Not photographically interesting or having any impact, but this is my first panorama using my Panosaurus Panoramic Tripod Head (from Christmas)and the lens I have been looking for and finally received this week (24mm Sigma). Great combination for this. The photo below is of my kitchen and stitched together from 15 images, 3 rows of 5. Extremely detailed, too detailed for my kitchen :-), and very easy to stitch. Using a pano head makes it so that there are nearly no mistakes in alignment from frame to frame and there is very little overlap between images. If you stitch together a pano shot handheld a minimum of 30% overlap is needed to get a good stitch. There may have been only 5% on each of these shots.

This Just in..........

I entered this image and earned 12 position in the dpreview competition Small Falls challenge originally posted here in October. Not that I mean to gloat or anything, but I take this as an honor to be 12th out of 322 from around the world. Very cool. Perhaps I should hang this one on the wall! (Thanks for your support!)

Cutting Apples

First test shot with my new (old) Sigma 24mm f2.8 manual focus lens. The lens is great (so far) but it has one problem: focusing unit behind lens. (Me) :-)

On The Rocks

Foggy Sunrise