Upstairs Down
Battery Russell at Fort Stevens is built with massive concrete walls and there are little niches everywhere. Wonder what they are for?
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Los Tres Amigos
Also known as: KNK-CMT-ACH I have a few more images from Battery Russell at Fort Stevens left in my arsenal for posting the rest of this week. I found this interesting, so had to setup and shoot it. These three niches were in a wall next to a set of stairs leading down into the bowels of Battery Russell (the …
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The Fire Has Gone Out
Discovered this in the back of the officer’s headquarters in Battery Russell at Fort Stevens. Winters are cold and wet here in the Pacific NW and looking at this makes me wonder about the soldiers who were posted here and how they kept themselves warm in the winter. How many fires were built here over the years and did only …
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Creepy Carousel Cat
While we were visiting Seaside, OR last weekend we spent some time in the tourist area and hung out by the carousel. I was taking pictures of the carousel, friends, and family with no particular goal in mind. My daughter, who was also shooting the carousel challenged me to take a creepy* photo. I think her exact words were something …
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Casper, Is That You?
Honestly, it was dark enough here that I thought the algae and slime was more black than green. It was light enough to see the way up the stairs, but dim enough that I never saw ‘Casper’ at all. I didn’t notice his ghostly form until after I was home and brought the exposures into Lightroom. It wasn’t until then …
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Long Hall
I spent the weekend at the Oregon coast with family and on Saturday afternoon drove up to Fort Stevens in hopes of getting some good HDR shots. We stopped at Battery Russell and it was raining (as usual) and so we started with some of the interior and ammo storage rooms. It was very dim, wet and algae was growing …
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Claw
I saw the roots of this tree and really had to make a photograph. I thought that in color it would have been rather boring, so I decided to get my IR camera for this shot. I wanted to get low enough to emphasize the roots and the way the tree is clawing at the ground to stay in place. …
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Gears
This is the low end of what was once a conveyer system at a hop kiln in the Russian River Valley of Sonoma County, California. The hop kiln, its buildings, grounds, and old equipment are now part of the Hop Kiln Winery. I was there one very bright, sunny day at just about 1:00pm – I might have preferred to …
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Last Light
I’m going to wrap up Mazatlan photos with this image of the sunset from the top of the Posada Freeman Express in old-town Mazatlan. The Freeman is a great place to grab some food or a drink and catch the sunset from the roof-top. I’d like to say that I thought about this and planned it, ensuring the couple was …
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Leftovers
I wanted to get this shot because of the way the light was falling on the door, but mostly because of the take-out box on the steps. At first glance I almost passed this opportunity over because of the ‘trash’ on the steps and I thought it would ruin the picture. After looking at it for a minute I decided …
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