This is a shot from the waves shoot last weekend. I thought it kind of made a fitting card... Young Love

I don't want to flood the place with the wave shots. I narrowed 194 shots down to 18. If you want to see them they are on my site at http://www.classyshots.com/review/index.php

....The Fool On The Hill?

To change the subject... First of spring. I think I'm really going to like that macro lens.

Have a great day all. I'm back to and finishing up the coast shots. I'll pick out a few good ones for tomorrows post.

Here is a set of four images (not the same wave) showing the way the waves were developing over there on Saturday. I'll post more with different vantage points later but I thought these made a good series.

1, 2, 3 and  4.

To give you a size perspective the rail fence up on that bluff is about four and a half feet tall.

Tech note: All were taken with a Canon 40D, Canon 18-40mm L lens and tripod with a remote shutter release. I used manual mode and manual focus all preset to enable me to watch everything unfold and hit the remote as I wanted to.  

Wife and I decided we had to get out of the house. Just us, nobody else, we just had to get away. It's been too messy up on the hill so we headed for Shore Acres on the Oregon Coast. A couple of hours later we were both very glad we decided to go.

When you come right down to it there isn't much on a beach other than water, rocks and trees. Some days things just go the right way. It can be a tough job but somebody has to do it. This shot thanks to my wife (oregontechchick) and her little Canon A560.

I'll have more to post when I get things sorted and the good ones run through Lightroom.  

One of my clients makes hand painted ducks. Some are on the fancy side while some of them are more on the old decoy style. He brought over the latest prototype for me to shoot for the new ads. I really liked this one as it is made to be an award for shooting clubs and like that.

Anyway... Pintail Plaque
Pintail Detail 1
Pintail Detail 2

The first shot is with the Tamron 28-75 mm that I use for most of my non macro studio stuff. The second two are detail shots and the Canon 100mm macro was used for them.

Not really looking for votes on this one. Just wanted to share the pretty work. The woman that paints these is a real joy to watch work. This Pintail is about 17" long overall.

Just a simple kind of day....

Willow

This one is kind of fitting for the current theme but I didn't take it. I actually handed my camera over to a local that asked if she could take one of the two of us. I thought about it quite a bit and then decided she couldn't out run me.

Anyway... Mike and Jonna in Alaska in 2005. This was taken at the fishing port of Wrangell Alaska. You can see our ride in the background. We will be going back up there in 2010 for our 20th anniversary.

If anyone has the money to go and can take 3 weeks off the end of May /beginning of June 2010 and wants to split some expenses on a 7 day one way cruise with an extra 7 days up on Kenia and then fly home I'd like to hear from you. Send me a PM or an email.

If you keep up that whining I'll give you something to cry about!

This could be the  start of something good.  

Same setup as yesterday.

This Bell won't ring.

Window light with a reflector. Canon 10D and Canon 100mm macro. F8 and 1/2 sec.

This is kind of a reminder post.

Some of you will remember that a year ago I had a little mishap in my wifes Explorer resulting in one Dead Ford. I had been up doing some winter shooting at Cougar Resevoir It kind of fell over on it's side after a short spell of being pointed West while traveling East at about 30mph on some ice. This happened about a year after my wife had done the same thing in it. Long story as to why but it was a vehicle thing and not a driver error.

Anyway the point of the post is.... No matter what the weather, when you are out running around shooting make sure you keep your camera bag zipped closed. I had mine sitting on the passenger seat and it was not zipped. In an accident lenses and other contents can become flying objects. If one of them smacks you in the head it WILL hurt and it's not real good for the gear either. I ended up with lenses in the back seat, on the ground where the side window broke, laying in the snow and mud.

Fortunately all of the gear and the driver survived unharmed. As for the Ford I never liked anyway, they totaled it and hopefully is is now rebar buried in concrete somewhere.

On my website I run a weekly feature called Photo Of The Week. I'm actually on week 56 and for me it is pretty amazing to do something every week for over a year. I also post that photo to a few sites and starting this week I'm going to post it here every Sunday also. If you like it fine. If you don't like it tell me why. I won't back log it all the way back to week one. Bet you are glad of that.

My photo of the week for week 56...

Out of Tune - An old piano I found in an abandon house in Central Oregon.

Do not step here !

Playing with the Canon 100mm USM Macro... No extension tubes where used on these. They were shot on the kitchen counter with a piece of white poster board for background. There are 6 different shots each with a small image 800 wide of the full shot and then a section about 800 wide to show the full size of the point. Get the point?

Cactus 1 Small - Cactus 1 Crop
Hooks Small - Colored Pencils Crop
Push Pins Small - Push Pins Crop
Markers Small - Markers Crop[
Colored Pencils Small - Colored Pencils Crop
Cactus 2 Small - Cactus 2 Crop

Tech stuff: Canon 40D, Canon 100mm macro, tripod, old Vivatar 283 Flash at 3/4 power, ISO 100, F22 at 1/200th. If my sync cord ever gets here I'll switch to my Canon 430 EX flash.