All Whatcom Athletes PT 2

Blog allows only five pics at a time I see. So here's the tux-ed football player.

All Whatcom Athletes PT 1

So we did our usual athlete of the year from the fall season. Themed, as it is, I went with First Class athletes. So i asked then to wear their best suit, dress, whatever. The football guy wore a tux, but for got shoes,, and so it went.. here they are.

NEW MEXICO part 2

So I forgot petroglyph pic.. here it is

NEW MEXICO

I visited New Mexico to celebrate Jerry Redfern's 40th b-day. It was a beautiful state. Visited Petroglyph National Monument Park. It was fascinating that it's so open and accessible. Sadly, that led people to use the glyphs for target practice in the past. I included one pic for Jerry's niece gripping her dad's hair for balance. The colored prayer flags have been bleached white by the harsh sun.

NEW YEAR, NEW RESOLUTION

Being that it is a new year, I am resolved to blog a bit more and often. If not words, then just photos.

danny and Josie tie the knot

Danny and Josie tied the knot today in Muncie, Ind. They both looked great, her dress, his white vest/tie combo. And they sure can dance!!!

Scuba clean up at Redondo

I dropped my dad off at the airport and on the way back, I stopped by Redondo to check out the scuba divers and may, just maybe, be a photog again. As it turns out there was a clean up going on. Removing old fishing lines, squid jigs and other fishing debris. As it turns out, among the debris was an octopus in a pepsi can, a crab caught in a tangle of fishing lines and a handgun. Yeah, a HANDGUN. Rusted but obviously a 9mm or .45 semi-auto.

Good bye Katie.

Bellingham Herald intern Katie Barnes is leaving us after a half year here in B'ham. And frankly, it bites. She's fun, talented and a bit quirky. (she showed up at a get together at my home wearing a flowing transparent dress over her jeans) She's plays the piano very well, shoots very well and has done a hell of a job of making a website for me. Thanks Katie! So we'll get together tonight, toast her, and bemoan the fact that our world got a little less interesting without her around. Bummer.

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.