No man is an island but Katie could be..

Went sailing with the Bellingham Herald intern Katie Barnes on Sunday aboard Photo Editor Russ Kendall's sailboat. We sailed to the correctly named Barnes Island. While the island is private and off limits. We moored up to Clark Island, within throwing distance of Barnes. Later Katie get to sail the boat as it heeled over and we cruise at just around 4 knots.

A quick shot at Oregon

Went to Oregon for three days of running around seeing friends and such.. here's a few shots. Including one bad owner. Pink!? on a Great Dane?? Well her name was Lucy..

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Bear hats, hula and a pillory

A recent walk around Fairhaven gave me these two things. The first, two women hula hooping wearing bear hats. Left is Ms B Hooping Allure, aka, Jamie Berg and her friend Jackie. The second, a plaque stating that there had been a pillory stand at that location. Makes me want to bring back the pillory stands just to have a reason to toss rotten tomatoes.

Giant dog and the dock

A walk around Lake Padden resulted in a giant dog terrorizing others with a log and a group of young people hogging the benches on a dock.

The future and a piano player

So, as you've heard, I have joined the ranks of the unemployed. And frankly, it sucks. I always had a place to go, people to talk to everyday. And met new people everyday.. many whom I'd never meet if it weren't for the job. It's made me realize I depended on my job to be my way of getting around and meeting folks. A social life via the newspaper. And it worked for me it seems. But this lack of a place, that had a focus and a purpose, to go each day is not working well. So like the tightrope, well, slack rope walker to be exact, is a metaphor for having to try something, new, tricky, and unbalancing. That's the future it seems. On another note, the piano player is the Bellingham Herald's current intern Katie Barnes. Aside from being an accomplished player, she's won two Best of Photojournalism Awards.. she's quite the renaissance woman.. 

getting back on the blogging horse

I think the real reason I haven't been blogging, aside from the fact I hate to type, is that I went so long between blogs I forgot the password. And to add that a lot of my photog friends are doing such cool stuff, that I felt it paled in comparison. But I have decided to pick up the torch and show what I do here. For most of the last year it's been local high school sports on a deadline, so most of it is really action but lacking the story moments since I am sending on deadline just after halftime. So I will endeavor to not put up just to show something. Or maybe I will ..

Weird wildlife

On a trip to the 'Burg in August, I stopped by the Wildlife Safari to kill some time and shot three zebras eating in perfect "uniform" order. A watusi with some big horns, a smaller antelope type animal that has some 'NASA-like' secret substance on its antlers after it has probably gored a few other safari animals. ( a larger antlope family animal had the same thing on its horns, too). Some years ago, the head vet told me they do this a fair amount when males get out of hand..looks like tennis balls but the substance, like play-doh until it hardens, is really out of this world. The bloody antlers is from the fuzz-like hair molting off an adult fallow deer's antlers. Painless but looks a bit awful.

Well, it's back to blogging.

after many, many months off, I have come to the decision to blog. For no other reason than to let more people see what goes on here in B'ham as we call it. So after nine months here. These are a very few favorite pics. It isn't the Olympics but it's what goes on here when the world's attention was elsewhere. There will be more tomorrow.

Change of Scenery?

Finally a blog. Well, it's been a long time.. frankly I forgot my sign in stuff and just got frustrated and embarrassed. So I dropped blogging. But in cleaning out a drawer, Voila! there's the info I wrote down. So, here's the new blog. I AM LEAVING ROSEBURG. Got a job in Bellingham and will be working for the Bellingham Herald. So there. Will I miss the 'burg? OF COURSE! Eight+ years here and there have been many people who have helped my career and my person. I can't type it all here but, there may be a larger blog later.. but here's a photo to keep you all happy...it's from Chris Anderson of the Spokesman Review. At Eugene's Autzen Stadium as WSU got pounded by the Ducks, prior to Dennis Dixon blowing out his knee.. and Oregon's hopes at a National Champ title...

I have been a bad blogger

Ok so a looooong delay between post probably makes one think I drop off the end of the world. So I did. Briefly. In Cambodia. So here's a few pics.

Reader Comments

A comment about two kids walking with crutches.

Now where else can you pick up the newspaper and see a photo of your daughter's backside on the front page? Thanks for the chuckle. -----'s Dad

Glad he got the joke.

BTW the photo won't upload. Sorry.

So damn literal!

So I chased down this guy and his church group carrying this cross. There's a wheel on the back so it rolls. It's heavy but the wheel makes it easier to carry. Then they came to an intersection and here's where the literal translation comes in. Cross-Walk.. Finally! Someone using it to its exact purpose!

Addictions

Ok, so actors have drug rehab, I have days where I try to get off the camera and just enjoy the day. And this shows up! Two kids, bored as they wait to make a river crossing with a search & rescue group exercise, fighting as jedi warriors! Oh do I have a camera? NOOOO! but thankfully a co-worker and camera buff, Evan, hands me his camera and off I go. Here's what I came up with..

Late post from No. 1

Well, it's been too long since I posted here so here's a lame excuse. I was in Cambodia most of February and most of my cards were lost nearly one week into the trip. Then, the new cards I bought failed, one there, one back here while downloading. But as many know, I posted the first group on sportsshooter.com in a gallery at the bottom of my page. I am waiting to find out if a card I sent to a recovery company will divulge the lost images. In the meantime, here's a shot I made and it ended up on MSNBC's Photos of the Week March 8-15. So go vote for it. I just need more than 12,000 votes to win.. ha! But as for other news. I won NPPA Region 11 Photographer of the Year, which is ORE, WA, BC and Alaska. So, following in the footsteps of some famous athletes, it's time to retire. You know going out at the top o my game. Yeah, Right!

The bird's the word

A fatal accident lead to this shot. Another driver made a U-turn on I-5 and drove into the couple behind the fireman. The fireman told me that as he was working on the couple in their wrecked truck, the bird kept say, "You're the Working Man. You're the Working Man." The animals, and the couple, were shaken but not hurt.

When ya gotta go

Shooting a rodeo, I went to get a higher POV as paramedics worked on a cowboy with a possible broken leg. What I got was more than I wanted to see. But hey, like I siad before, "I like Titles." So here's "Bathroom Stall"

backgrounds

I got a background from craig Mitchelldyer and its been sitting in a bag so I finally broke it out for christmas pics. While I shot a lot of the kids. I reluctantly won't post them but will e-mail other to friends.. but here's what we did, jumping pics. it's a made up sudio on my parents front porch..

I like titles

So sometimes I see a photo that feels like there's catchy headline attached as I shoot it. Here's one I like to call "Morning Breath".

Thanksgiving moments

After Saturday's Civil War game in Corvallis I got a chance to drop in on friends just outside town. Kelsey kept hiding her face and when she did it in front of all the family pictures I thought of how we all, or at least most people, don't like either the act of having our photo taken or the fact we have a perceived "flaw" in how we look. As children we adore the camera, at least that's my experience having shot so many assignments in elementary schools. But it changes a bit as we start to see how people value or not value our looks. Or maybe I am just reading too much into it and I am just annoying her with the camera...
Otehr other pics are:
Reading to Elizabeth and Grandma with grandchild.