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Click on the link above to see a series of portraits I shot of 4H kids and their animals. And yes, that's "Mishchief" the pants eating hog I wrote about earlier.
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>Spherical Rock
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Rarely do I feel compelled to photograph rocks, trees, moss, or anything else in nature. It's simply not very visually interesting to me. Most other landscape photography doesn't interest me either. But, today I could not help myself. I was standing on the bank of the Row River near Cottage Grove, Oregon. The bedrock is exposed in most of the river from aggressive gold mining in the past. On one of these rocky protrusions I saw this almost perfectly spherical rock sitting in a bowl-shaped depression. This is an area that many people visit in the summer. In the winter it would be covered by water. This rock was obviously shapen by tumbling and swirling around in the bowl underwater all winter. It amazed me that no one had taken the rock from the bowl. It amazed me that the rock must have been tumbling around in that depression for at least an entire winter. This also means that most likely, it would only take one winter to shape the rock. I would also surmise that any spherical rock one would find would have to be shaped in a similar way.
Coincidently, this also happens to be the spot on the river where Buster Keaton intentionally crashed a steam locomotive as part of a stunt for the silent film, The General.
I know this still not very interesting, but sometimes it's not a bad thing to ponder the details. And, in case you are wondering, I left the rock.
>Alf and the Greek
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I was going through some older scans and found this.
>Fourth of July Pix
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Here's a few pictures from Chris and Therese Pietsch's epic Fourth of July party in their backyard.
>More Rodeo
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>Eugene Pro Rodeo
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We took the kids to the rodeo and I shot a few snaps from the stands.
>Murderous Swine
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I'm shooting a story on 4-H kids and their animals. When it came time to shoot the hog portion of the story, I went to a nice family's house near Crow, Oregon. I told them it would be best to select the most well-behaved hog for the shoot. They chose "Mischief". Mischief is a 1000 pound boar Hampshire hog. He is the size of a living room sofa.
We were doing pretty good positioning him by coaxing him with food and nudging him into place. Then, I decided to "nudge" him with my thigh. He didn't like it too much, evidently, because he ate my pants. He snapped his head around attempting to grab my leg in his teeth. I pulled back in the nick of time and he just caught the inner leg of my Prison Blues work pants. His teeth punctured the denin and he jerked on it leaving a 14-inch rip in the leg.
My pants are destroyed, but luckily, he didn't get the flesh. I'm quite sure it would have meant a trip to the hospital provided I didn't bleed out right there in the pig slop. At the very least, I would have screamed like a little girl.
>The New Me
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Not really. But, I had Sol Neelman shoot a few pix of me for my bio page on my web site. I haven't decided what to use yet. I'm thinking reshoot.
>Hot, Hot and Hot
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It was a little warm today.
>Haunted House
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This guy popped his head out in the haunted house at the Enchanted Forest. The kids were scared silly, but I had time to place the lens on the glass and shoot a photo before he dropped down again.
>Painted Footprints
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I stopped by the Painted Hills on my way to John Day. The light was super flat but I saw these foot prints across one of the hills. I'm not really sure if they are human or animal, but I sure wanted to walk up there. I just didn't want to pay the fine.
>Mt. Shasta
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I shot this from my car window along I-5. It was just too easy.
>Cage Fighting on NoTxt
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Trent Nelson of the Salt Lake Tribune, is hosting a new website called NoTxt.org.
My cage fighting gallery was chosen for their first issue. There's also some really interesting art on the site. Click on the link above to go the page.
>Logging
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Click on the link above to see a gallery I shot for a personal project. It show Luis Gomez falling timber on a thinning operation on BLM land near Noti, Oregon.
>Fight Club with Audio
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Here's a little thing I did on cage fighting. Click on the link above to make it work.
>Ward Churchill Visits U of O
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University of Oregon college republicans, Josh Lusby, left to right, Anthony Warren, and Ben Mortire protest outside the Erb Memorial Union Ballroom where Ward Churchill will speak at the University of Oregon, May 19, 2006, in Eugene, Oregon. Churchill is an American writer, liberal activist, and academic. He is a tenured full professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and author of over twenty books and hundreds of essays. Churchill was widely discussed and criticized in the media during 2005, stimulated by publicity given to a 2001 essay in which Churchill questioned the innocence of many of the people killed in the World Trade Center attacks, labeling them as "technocrats" and "little Eichmanns." A University of Colorado investigation concluded in May 2006 that Churchill has repeatedly engaged in "serious research misconduct," including "falsification, fabrication, plagiarism, failure to comply with standard procedures regarding author names on publications and other serious deviations from accepted practices".
>Cage Fight Gallery
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Click on the link above to see more photos from the cage fights.
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I shot this downtown Eugene at the McDonald Theater last Saturday night. It was chock full of bone-crunching, blood-squirting, and sweat-showering fun for the whole family. Not my family, but others brought their entire family including the kids!
>UO Lacrosse Audio Slideshow
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Click on the link above to view a little slideshow from an Oregon lacrosse game I shot Friday. It was mostly an exercise to better learn how to add audio to still photos.
>Viva El Salvador
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This photo kind of cracked me up. It looks like a coup de tate on steps of the Oregon State Capitol.
Here's the caption:
Joseph Lara, 18, of Woodburn, Ore., waves an El Salvadoran flag near the steps of the Oregon State Capitol as fellow immigration rights supporters gather Monday, May 1, 2006, in Salem, Ore. Immigration rights supporters skipped work and rallied across the state Monday, part of the nationwide boycott intended to showcase the economic clout of the nation's growing Latino population.
>Spring Flowers
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How time flies. I just realized I haven't posted in awhile. I coughed up this photo I shot last week at a shopping mall that was under construction. I was a frustrating experience, becauses I knew there was a better photo to made there. I just kept thinking how much better this could be.