Young Love

The day started out great as we traveled down the coast to see a couple of lighthouses. Then on the way back we stopped at a place called Foul weather Point. There for the first time in my life I got to photograph a whale. It was really fun and after about a 10 minute wait, from when we were told there is a whale out there, to when I got to actually see it I wasn't ready with the camera, didn't know what to expect actually, So I had to wait another 5 minutes or so and then he decided to put on a show and in about a five minute span of time surfaced, spouted, dove and resurfaced several times. I had the camera on rapid exposure mode by that time and was catching several phases of the show each time. I was even able to get a whale spotting boat with the whale in the same shot later in the session. It was really fun but then we had to hurry on to Lincoln City to spend some time on the beach since the day was almost over by that time.
So we ate a little dinner and then headed to the beach. I was a little slow getting going since I had hurried out the night before and then ended up being there for over an hour and a half, in the cold blowing wind, from the time the sunset started to the time the color was finally all gone from the sky. So I wasn't really in a big hurry. The house we were in was across the street from where we could go down to the beach and as I crossed the lawn to head for the road I saw Scott and Tia coming back. Tia however turned and went to the park where Ann, Charles and Marie were sitting and waiting for the sunset. Scott however continued toward me and beckoned me to go back and when he got to me started the conversation by saying something to the effect that he wanted to ask me permission to ask Tia to marry him. We then talked for several minutes and went over to join the group. The sun was starting to set.

It was then time for Scott and Tia to take a walk along the beach. I followed at a distance so I could take some pictures and yet not let Tia wonder why I was following.

So I took a couple of pictures but tried to make it look like I was just photographing the sunset. However the group up at the park on the bench were more interested in what was happening with the couple. I would occasionally take a shot of them but was later told I missed the moment when he told Tia he had to get a rock out of his shoe and went to one knee and asked her to marry him.
So then when they returned I took a few more pictures because, well, she knew all about it by then.
So I also took a couple of shots of the ring against the sunset.


Then we took some shots of them against the final sky. So I came on this vacation with my daughter and her boyfrien and returned from the vacation with my daughter and her fiance.

A walk on the beach

Just a little stroll on the beach can produce some fun images. Look a nd see for yourself.

Aquarium Fun

I never realized how much fun it would be to change the ISO to 1600 and then put the lens against the glass of the aquarium, holding a finger between the glss and lens so as to not scratch the glass and then take a timed exposure as needed. The colors were beautiful and the models were great fun.

Shifting Sands. Change is Good

I spent most of the day on the beach yesterday and enjoyed it. In the afternoon we experienced fairly heavy winds but stayed and enjoyed the beach anyway until after sunset was almost over. We had played volleyball in the sand and on one of my frequent trips down to the water I noticed how there were so many tracks in the sand and then suddenly realized that they were slowly vanishing and the area was becoming flat again. It made me stop and think about change and how it really is good even though most of us don't really appreciate it.


The sunset was really pretty so I had to get the group to do a staged photo for me.

A visit to the Portland Rose Garden

On Sunday the 22nd Marie's family started to gather for a family reunion in Oregon. Those of us that were here decided to go to The Portland Rose Garden late that afternoon since I had been there before and was anxious to see the garden a little earlier in the season. The last time it seemed that most of the roses were past the good blooming stages when we visited. I was well rewarded and took around 250 pictures but could have spent the entire day there and still not seen or even photographed a part of what was there. But for the hour or so that I did get to photograph here are a few of the images.


I loved this last one since it looked like a bird. I was looking at it from several angles when I noticed this angle and just had to capture it.