The Magic Moment of Flight
I've been lucky enough to fly a few times - no, not with my arms flapping, rather on jets and small planes. For me there has always been that transitional, magic moment as the aircraft roars down the runway and begins to rise on a cushion of air, that magic moment when the battle with gravity seems won, when all things seem possible. Capture Date: Jun 15, 2007 07:30 PM•Views: 156
I made this photograph on the beach, at sunset, in Bandon, Oregon. I wonder what the seagull was thinking as it made that change from a somewhat awkward web-walker to an athletic acrobatic of the skies. No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Sunset from Coquille Point, Oregon
Harbor seals are hauled out on the rocks on one of the Oregon Islands, and children spend a few minutes in play. Soon, darkness will descend over the Islands and the nearby town of Bandon.
Capture Date: Jun 15, 2007 08:46 PM•Views: 156
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Ready for his Close-Up
Making friends with this equine was easy. Making him pose for his portrait proved difficult.
Capture Date: Jun 16, 2007 11:07 AM•Views: 158
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Multnomah Falls
We arrived at the falls, which are in the Columbia River Gorge, east of Portland, Oregon, early on a Sunday morning. For a while we had the roaring falls all to ourselves. Capture Date: Jun 17, 2007 07:59 AM•Views: 159
I made a similar photograph last year on my trip to Oregon, which is in another pbase gallery. Repeating the set-up for this photograph, which meant waling up to and down from the empty bridge a couple of times, was enjoyable. My thanks to Hal Grant, who waited patiently and positioned me - wich hand signals - on the bridge. No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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The Sea Otter Who Made His Bed and Laid Down In It
A California sea otter, wrapped in kelp to keep from drifting too far from nearby friends similarly draped in seaweeed, lies in a bed of his own making on an early Sunday afternoon, near the mouth of Morro Bay, California. Capture Date: Jun 24, 2007 01:01 PM•Views: 157
Do you ever wonder about your own life, how well you've anchored yourself to the familiar, and what might happen if you let yourself drift away from your world? Unlike the human species, sea otters seem to be able to have their cake (or at least a clam, oyster, sea urchin or abalone) and eat it, too. They stay put with ease when they want for as long as they wish, rolling over a few times with a strand of kelp clamped in their teeth until they've made a blanket of seaweed. Then, when the mood and hunger strikes, they can swim for miles to hunt for shellfish below the rolling waves of the open sea or in quiet coves along the central coast of California. No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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A Sense of Community
Many people, young and old, for whatever reason - by circumstance of birth or by choice - have a need for a sense of community. Last year, I put down my camera and joined in the Havdalah service pictured here, the ceremony celebrating, with candles and music and song, the end of Shabbat, which is the Jewish version of the Christian Sabbath. This year I kept my distance and yet was able to enjoy the service, too, with my photography. Capture Date: Jun 30, 2007 08:55 PM•Views: 110
I think I grew up without a strong sense of my own community - my parents came from different backgrounds and our shared celebrations were few - so perhaps that is why I can enjoy, if only vicariously (and often with a camera) communities not my own. This somewhat unusual Havdalah - unusual by nature of its location - was held, not in a synagogue, rather in the beautiful campground Point Mugu State Park, along the southern California coast. My purpose was to serve as chief cook and bottle washer, in addition to my self-created role as informal documentarian of No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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A Couple of Friends at the Campfire
Two friends share some time - as well as at least a few other characteristics - at a campfire in the campground at Quaking Aspen Meadow, Sequoia National Monument, California. Capture Date: Jul 7, 2007 10:28 PM•Views: 108
Photographic note: I'm amazed at how well the extremely high ISO works, at least with this photograph. No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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The Night Sky Under Observation
Astronomers like to explore the stars in the heavens on nights when the moon puts in a late appearance, or fails to show at all. On such evenings, stargazers from Southern California arrive in droves, telescopes in tow, in the parking lot below the summit of Mount Pinos (8831 feet above sea level), north of Los Angeles, California. (Red light, which doesn't overwhelm the human eye, is used to mark and illuminate the 'scopes and their controls.) Capture Date: Jul 14, 2007 10:22 PM•Views: 92
For the Chumash Indians, Mount Pinos was - and is - the center of the universe. How fitting the slopes of the sacred mountain serve as an important site for those who seek new kinds of meaning found beyond our own world. While I hoped to find new meaning to my own life, I found instead innumerable astronomers willing to let me share their views of the cosmos. Using a rolled-up serape I placed on the the ground to serve as a support for my camera, I was able to make my own vision of both the world below and the heavens above. No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Packer, Tuolumne Meadows, YosemiteCapture Date: Jul 22, 2007 12:07 PM•Views: 91No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Sunset over Tuolumne MeadowsCapture Date: Jul 24, 2007 08:15 PM•Views: 93No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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Sunset Viewed Through the Mist, Tuolumne Meadows
An afternoon rainstorm washed the dust from the high country in Yosemite National Park, California. A few hours later, as the sun dropped behind a pine-covered ridge, Tuolumne Meadows was enveloped in a mist that softened the last light of day.
Capture Date: Jul 24, 2007 08:24 PM•Views: 94
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Jenna and EricCapture Date: Sep 22, 2007 03:39 PM•Views: 90No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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A Curious Wolf
Rounding a bend, our photography group spotted what at first appeared to be a couple of coyotes trotting on the opposite side of the road. Too large for coyotes, we quickly realized we were overtaking a pair of wolves. We drove past them, stopped, wordlessly piled out of our van and quietly, reverently, awaited the approach of the wolves, whose ancestors trod the North American continent perhaps 200,000 years before modern day humans would evolve and began their slow march out of Africa. Capture Date: Oct 8, 2007 12:25 AM•Views: 94
Upon reaching the opposite side of the road, one of the wolves turned our way, staring at us with what I took as curiosity. This was no coyote, that lean and sly and highly adaptble predator. This was a massively powerful animal, with its enormous paws and long legs thicker than the trunks of the surrounding saplings. There seemed no hint of malice in the stare; no wolf on this continent, to my knowledge, has ever attacked a human. A third wolf appeared from nowhere. As if on cue, all three turned from th No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
In the company of nine other photographers, I traveled to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks for a few days. It was, I think, my 17th annual autumn visit, but I long ago lost the count. We spent a little while at Artists Point, where soft light revealed the Upper Falls and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
Capture Date: Oct 8, 2007 01:30 AM•Views: 89
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Starlings and Moon Atop a Church Steeple
Having a fair amount of experience with travel and nature photography, I'm often attuned to the nuances of objects both near and far in a scene. That was the case here, when I realized I could put the church steeple and birds in close juxtaposition with the moon. Capture Date: Oct 16, 2007 01:26 AM•Views: 89
When I showed some of those in our group what I had photographed, by letting them look at the LCD on the back of my camera, they found the image revelatory. They had looked out at what I looked out at, and then, simply for lack of experience, had failed to see what I saw. Soon enough, with a little practice of their own, they were learning to carve out their own vision of the world around them. No comments yet. All fields are required, fill in the form. Comment successfully added. Comment
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