Tell Me a Story - October 2015

Fall Color and Water on the Umpqua

Once again, I set off on a journey with a few of my camera club friends.  Water and fall color along the Umpqua River.  We opted to spend the night in a motel in Idleyld Park, OR.  It was quite quaint, small, old but very very clean.  They have flowers and koi in the pond out back.  The link to the motel is as follows, just in case you were curious!
Dogwood Motel 

Our first stop was a boat ramp before the Thundering Water Lookout

 Just a leave shot along the river.  I liked the water drops on it and thought the leaves were interesting.

This snail was out in his glory.  Wet and cool weather! I think he liked it.

 The Daliahs were gorgeous!

This one was behind the motel by the koi pond.

 The koi were beautiful!

They would come right out of the water.  I'm sure had we had food, they would have eaten right out of our hands!

Up the road we go!

Whitehorse Falls. One of the 11 waterfalls off the Umpqua Hwy.  Some are right off the road and some are quite the hike!

 Another view of Whitehorse Falls.

 This was at Clearwater Falls but looking downstream.  I just liked the view.  I fell flat on my back along here, but was ok!

I was fascinated with these big leaf maple leaves with the fall orange color and the brown polka dots surrounded by green!

 We went up on the road to Crater Lake.  The clouds before we got there were absolutely gorgeous and when we got there, it was socked in.  I had to heavily edit this to see anything.  Not the best editing job!

DANGER! Keep back!

This was actually taken the next morning on the way home.  I love the colors of the river and the leaves!

Here is a brochure of Thundering Waters off the Umpqua Hwy.  It's a must have for your trip!

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual,

 cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

~E. O. Wilson

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Tell Me a Story - September 2015

Show & Shine

Every month our local camera club goes on what we call a "shootout".  It's fun, gets us out shooting together and builds great comradery.  This month's shootout was for the Show & Shine held at Shore Acres.  It's part of the Fun Festival here in Coos Bay.  This was the last year the Show & Shine would be held due to lack of volunteers and car club participation.  So sad.  Seems like a lot of club participation is down, including our own photo club.

I know nothing about cars so I do not know the makes or models of the cars in my images but I tried to capture some fun, unique photos of reflections and pretty colors.  Hope you enjoy them!

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Tell Me a Story - August 2015

A Drive up the Coast

I have been so unmotivated to photograph anything, so I said to my neighbor, friend and fellow photographer Elise, "Let's go somewhere".  We had planned to go to the wildlife preserve near Eugene, OR but it was going to be 90 degrees that day and us "coasties" can't handle that heat!  So we decided to drive up the coast to Newport and come down.  It was a longer drive than we anticipated and it was very sunny and warm.  The lighting was not good, but I took some photos anyway.  First we stopped at Georgie's Beachside Grill restaurant where I had a bread bowl of clam chowder.  Some of the best on the Oregon Coast IMO.

Our next stop was Yaquina Head Lighthouse

Here are a few of the lighthouse

Lots of visitors this day.

 A Sun Dog!

We stayed and looked at some different views of the ocean.

There were cormorants everywhere raising their young.

I enjoyed watching this mama and her 3 kids throw "cobbles" into the ocean

Next it was stopping at Cape Perpetua south of Yachats.  Cape Perpetua hosts sightseeing opportunities including Thor's Well, Spouting Horn and Devil's Churn.  Unfortunately we were not there at the right time (high tide is the best), but I took a few pictures anyway.

Read about Cape Perpetua here:  (yes I used a wiki site)  Here are a few photos, though not exceptional, they are mine.

 Spouting Horn wasn't spouting.  It was about 2.5 hours before high tide.

 Hwy 101 looking south

 Looking North along the coast

 Thor's well is straight out on the rocks.  If you look close you can see a lot of people looking into the "well".  Hope they left before the tide got high!

This is Thor's Well with not much activity because of the tide.  There was still one person taking pictures with an IPAD but I have photoshopped her out. 

There is a long path down to the rocks and Thor's Well.  One day I will walk down there, but the day was already getting late and my friend had to be home at a certain time.

This was our little travelling companion, Ruby who is about 12 weeks old.  Such a sweet sweet poodle puppy she is!

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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth. ~Rachel Carson</sup>

Our son's Change of Command Ceremony

 

These photos did NOT turn out how I wanted them, but I thought I'd share since I am so damned proud of him and his little family (We're also very proud of our daughter and her slightly bigger family).  These were taken with my 50mm 1.4 lens and I do not know what happened but oh well here goes.

 

Before the Ceremony, outside in front of the hanger.

Papa and Emily (age 4)

Stage setup.

Color Guard.

Announcing the Wing commander, the Outgoing Squadron commander and my son ( the incoming squadron commander) on the right.

My son saluting his troops as the new commander of his squadron.

Emily's favorite part.  THE CAKE!

Emily and her other grandma (Nene).  I think they look so much alike!

 

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The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us. ~Tom Clancy