The Journal
Stories from the Field
Dispatches from the trail — landscapes, wildlife, alpacas, and the road in between.
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Forest + Hail + Sun + Rain + SunRain = Magic
It was a recent late afternoon when Portland finally saw a short respite in the seemingly endless rain and the glorious sun drenched our part of the Earth for a…
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When The Going Gets Weird, The Weird Go To Joshua Tree.
This is going to be a short one. In fact, I won’t even go past these few intro sentences, as there’s not much introduction that a sunset at Joshua Tree…
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An Impromptu Smith Rock State Park Fall, eh…Winter(?) Shoot
Ok, so this wasn’t planned. And by this, I don’t just mean these images or even this trip to Smith Rock State Park in Oregon, but when life hands you…
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The End Is The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning – A Winter Stroll Through Oakwood Gardens
So I’ve started to build quite a pleasant relationship with Mike & Julie Safley, the founders of Oakwood Gardens, after first being assigned to photograph one of their cottages for…
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My Fall Forest Foggy Pajama Photogra-Party
I don’t have much to say here…perhaps because there isn’t much to say. This one is purely show and tell. This series of images was from a recent morning here…
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How Do You Do An Oregon Fall Photography Road Trip? RVs, Railroads & Flu-Shots – That’s How!
“Have the train go back one more car-length.”“See that S-Curve over there? Wait for me to get around that lake and then get it to start around that bend and…
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How To Extend A Pacific Northwest Summer? Take A Job In Central California In The Fall!
It’s that season again! Summer is over, and the Chambers of Commerce and destination marketing organizations of America are no longer questioning their life choices after dealing with the annual…
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Food + Wine + Games = More Ecology Education for the Kiddos!
So this is pretty darn rad! The non-profit I work with, Ecology in Classrooms & Outdoors (ECO), just had our 3rd annual Garden Party and it was our most successful…
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Summer in the Sierras – From King’s Canyon & Sequoia Through Yosemite’s Tioga Road to Tuolumne Meadows
ae Lakes Loop – We came, we saw, we didn’t conquer! Kinda…Ok, we needn’t get into the finer details, but the one silver lining of our failed attempt to backpack…
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A Sun Set Moon Rise Moon Set Sun Rise Shoot at Oakwood Gardens. Oh, and alpacas. Yes, alpacas.
The strawberry moon. That’s what they called this one. And that strawberry moon gifted me the opportunity of a lifetime.But let’s start at the beginning.About a year ago, I first…
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I Just Went Through My THIRD Spring in the Pacific Northwest? Three!?? Wuh!? When? How!??
I have no idea how it happened, when it happened, and if it wasn’t for these images as proof, if it even ever happened at all. It seems like just…
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Gallivanting Around Grand County, Colorado to Capture Her in All Her 360 Glory
Not too long ago, I shared a post about my adventures shooting 360 in our country’s heartland and some of the eye-opening adventures along the way. Well, then Winter came…