Pink & Green
I’m posting this today partly because I love spring and it seems to have finally arrived in the northwest, and partly because I love the contrast of the pink flowers and the green background. Mostly though – I love the Nikkor 60mm micro lens – wonderful bokeh, fantastic contrast and saturation and sometimes a depth-of-field of almost nothing (not always …
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Maxwell Smart’s Entrance
–– With all the doors open. One thing I really like about this is how incredibly long this hallway looks thanks to the fish. Another thing I was interested in while I was in this hall was the stalagmites forming on the floor. At first glance I didn’t recognize them for what they were – I noticed them on the …
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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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Go By Train
I’ve debated with myself for a while now about whether I should post this photo or not. I think mostly because I was disappointed that that train station was under renovation and the windows were covered with plastic, the main part of the station is covered with scaffolding, and the construction billboard and crane are fairly prominent in the picture. …
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