Weekly Photo #6 - Christmas

This week, a quick photo of a drawing I made real quick for Christmas this year.  A bit late to get up here, but it is still Christmas week, and It will fill the spot for the week.  New years 2016 is coming right up!

Weekly Photo #5

This week, as promised, is a break from the natural weather stuff of the last few weeks.  It has been the rainiest month ever in portland since they started keeping record, or so I heard, but I am not going to share a photo or story of that.

Instead, I will share one that Elizabeth took while we were out at the Old Spaghetti Factory last night.  The stained glass really caught her eye, so she took out the camera and grabbed a few photos.  This is the one that works the best.  I explained to her about the glare and how it makes taking pictures of glass pretty difficult.  This one did turn out OK afterall.

Weekly Photo #4 - Eclipse

This week, I went into the archives and pulled out this photo from last fall, when we were able to see the lunar eclipse and the super moon that occurred simultaneously.  This was one of the last shots I took that night, and it finally showed some of the color of the eclipse without the bright part totally wiping it out.  

I've seen some other great shots of this, and many that have some context of a mountain or skyline or something, and I wish I had been able to get one like that, but for being shot from the middle of the city surrounded by light and other people, it turned out pretty good, I guess.  

Weekly Photo #3 - FLOOD!

You would think that living in Portland we'd be used to some rain.  But it turns out that there was a 24 hour period from yesterday evening through this afternoon that was the wettest 24 hour period in December, ever in Portland.  Or something like that, I heard the statistic on TV earlier but never verified it.  The point is that even though we get a lot of rain, everything was pretty saturated and all the streams and rivers rose very rapidly.

I stopped for a pit stop at Multnomah Falls today on my way in from the gorge, as well as to see the amount of water coming down the falls.  I never made it, as the path from the parking lot to the visitor center was flooded and impassable.  So, I snapped a few quick photos and headed on my way.

It was pretty impressive the amount of water that was coming down, especially considering the dry summer that we had, where there was very little at times.  There is even that second falls to the right that I've not seen before and obviously only shows up in these flood situations.

Weekly photo #2 - composite

I got the opportunity recently to take photos again of this young lady.  I took her photos 3 years ago and my sister took them the year before that.  Now she is 6 and in first grade, so a big change from the 3 year old last time we did this.

This particular picture was inspired by others I have seen online and various places where multiple shots are put together.  Some cameras and phones will do similar things automatically, but in this case we had to leave time for re-positioning, so it was done manually.  It was a fun project, too.

I'll probably share more from this session, as I continue to go through them.

We're Back!

It's been a LOOOOONG time since this site has seen any action.  I found reasons to be busy, found a way to make other things more important, and all kinds of justifications for letting it go away.  

But, I have also re-discovered the joy I have for taking photos and sharing them.  So I am going to be re-starting this site as a place to find a new photo each week.  As the title suggests, there will be some connection to Portland, in some form or other.  

Today was the first really cold, frosty day of the year, and it was one of those cold, crisp, clear days that come around in late fall and early winter.  It had been windy, wet, and rainy recently, but today it changed over to cold and very dry.  So, there was a lot of fog, mist, and dew in the valleys that hung around most of the day.  This picture was taken of the Willamette River from downtown Milwaukie before that all cleared out.  With the panorama, you can see from the south - toward Oregon City - at the left and north to Portland at the right.