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Well, it has been SOME TIME since, I have last uploaded.  I have noticed a significant drop in the will to phogoraph the usual bird/ animal, landscape/ nature scenes...especially, since having moved from such a beautiful region and temporarily back to the flat, boring, nothing.  I've almost always had the inspiration of nearby mountains and other geographical interests most of my life, whether I was photographing at the time or simply, just going for a drive/ walk.  

  I decided that, my most recent interest has been directed toward celestial bodies, therefore, the next batch of images I work on, will be from the Astrophotography point of view.  I have been working on obtaining a decent telescope and necessary camera adapters....it's all very tricky to get into at first.  So much research.  Consequently, I'll eventually have to look into upgrading my camera to something full-frame but this is only eventual, and nothing of great haste.
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It's 40 degrees above where it should be here in the Pacific NW!
We should be sitting at 55 degrees and rainy, instead, we've been in the 70's and clear for sometime, with 95 degrees in the forcast for the remainder of the week! This isn't Fall!

[Update]

Well...thankfully, it seems like Fall is back on track! The most it ever had gotten was 80-ish, it would seem the weather guy was fooled again.  Surely, I was not looking forward to that 95.


Stalactite Frostbite by Latrodectus-Pallidus Awoke - Black and White by Latrodectus-Pallidus Flow I by Latrodectus-Pallidus
Hendrick's Park by Latrodectus-Pallidus :thumb117655034:
Ashes From A Time Immemorial by Latrodectus-Pallidus Amber Liquid by Latrodectus-Pallidus
Birds of The Cascades I by Latrodectus-Pallidus Itsy Bitsy Dragonfly by Latrodectus-Pallidus
Washington Park II by Latrodectus-Pallidus Itsy Bitsy Spider by Latrodectus-Pallidus
Spencer's Butte I by Latrodectus-Pallidus Spencer's Butte II by Latrodectus-Pallidus
City of Pitt by Latrodectus-Pallidus Jungle Mist by Latrodectus-Pallidus
No Bites by Latrodectus-Pallidus Lichen I by Latrodectus-Pallidus
CR Night III by Latrodectus-Pallidus Heron By The Dam by Latrodectus-Pallidus Thorncicles by Latrodectus-Pallidus

Canon Club Stamp by Latrodectus-Pallidus
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Oh how cryptic! Oooo...
Well, more like "heart warming" ;)

The coming of Fall is near and you know what that means...Yes! Pumpkin-Spice Chai!  
Oh! and throw in a dash of Pacific Northwest fog/rain, a one year wedding anniversary (how many people can say that?), a good ol' fashion black Halloween tree, pumpkin spice candles, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin guts, and numerous pumpkin patches with encircling vultures (they go bananas over rotting pumpkins), and you have the recipe for perfection. If none of this tickles your fancy, then I don't know what does and it is, perhaps, advisable that you seek to buy yourself a dead, withered, old, black Christmas tree and some festive pumpkin-spice fragrance, and some pumpkin cookies.



Stalactite Frostbite by Latrodectus-Pallidus Awoke - Black and White by Latrodectus-Pallidus ...II... by Latrodectus-Pallidus
Hendrick's Park by Latrodectus-Pallidus :thumb117655034:
Ashes From A Time Immemorial by Latrodectus-Pallidus Amber Liquid by Latrodectus-Pallidus
Birds of The Cascades I by Latrodectus-Pallidus Itsy Bitsy Dragonfly by Latrodectus-Pallidus
Washington Park II by Latrodectus-Pallidus Itsy Bitsy Spider by Latrodectus-Pallidus
Spencer's Butte I by Latrodectus-Pallidus Spencer's Butte II by Latrodectus-Pallidus
City of Pitt by Latrodectus-Pallidus Jungle Mist by Latrodectus-Pallidus
No Bites by Latrodectus-Pallidus Lichen I by Latrodectus-Pallidus
CR Night III by Latrodectus-Pallidus Heron By The Dam by Latrodectus-Pallidus Thorncicles by Latrodectus-Pallidus

Canon Club Stamp by Latrodectus-Pallidus
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It appears that I have missed the photographic opportunity of a life time.  I decided to scout out a new Osprey nesting and perching site.  Aside from the nest being inaccessible, due, to the jaggy and painful nature of the numerous vine bushes that plague the entire proximity of it (Yes, my attempt hurt...bad), I heard the cry of an Osprey behind me. Turning around, I spied two Osprey chasing a single American bald Eagle out of their territory and couldn't quickly get the subjects within focus, nor, the proper exposure dialed in.  I couldn't even two eye track the Eagle and Osprey quick enough and yet, it all felt like it was happening so slowly.  It didn't help that my camera was in my bag sling bag to begin with.  I ended up settling with a blurry rear end shot of a lone bald eagle as it passed over me.  I never saw the bald eagle again...I did hear it's shreak while I was beneath numerous trees, walking through some orchards, on private property.  :(

Update: Damn people [Grrr]

I missed yet another opportunity over the weekend.  I haven't been able to let this one go.  In conjunction with losing the low altitude Osprey vs Bald Eagle shot, basically, due to my camera being stowed, it's just too much.  No doubt, this would have been my best yet.  

Up along the coast, in Lincoln City, there were literally about 25 (ish?) sea gulls hovering like kites, literally about 4 feet off the ground and at arms length from my face (no joke).  In fact, I almost walked into them, pulling my head back and taking two steps back.  They were so close, because, people in the parking lot like to give them all sort of crap to eat that would probably kill them faster.  They were obviously waiting for that one moron to throw more junk food like potato chips, white bread, cheesy crackers, anything people had on them as road/camping food. I looked up and literally had to stop from running into the hovering gulls. I had no idea they were there, all I had heard was kites flapping in the wind (Lincoln City is basically the kite capital of the US). The wind was blowing so hard and steady that the gulls literally acted as kites and just hovered there, with no motion of the wings at all.  It made for a pretty spectacular scene.  I tried quickly, to fill my frame with them...impossible! Firstly, my lens cap was still on ( I was hardly prepared, as, I had just gotten out of the parking lot).  Secondly, my camera was off.  Thirdly, I was using the 70-300 Telephoto on a crop sensor camera, with the idea that I was going to be photographing surf. Thirdly, I was standing closer than 5 feet to my subjects! I was face to face with a group of gulls and the closest distance my telephoto supports? 4.9 ft, thus, I couldn't focus on them. Fourthly, I could only get four-ish in my picture with this lens anyway.  I quickly unscrewed my telephoto and threw it in the bag with no end cap on it. Whipping out my wide angle lens, which would allow for me to shoot a point blank shot, zoomed roughly to 25mm, and I'd have the entire group in the scene.  Let us first establish, that the early evening sun was perfect! A small, white, transparent cotton cloud passed in front of it, evenly distributing the suns intensity into diffuse lighting that caused the gulls to glow.  By the time I got my lens on, I knew right away what had happened...some idiot threw more heart stopping food in the parking lot and they all lifted up and migrated to the moron with the loaf bread.

Oh well...at least my wife was there to assure me that even the greatest photographers have those moments.
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