Posted by admin on May 18, 2013 in
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Betty and I are off venturing in the foothills of Northern California on the beginning of another screening tour. One of the things we like best about traveling like this is how we get to see so much of the US that we might not be able to visit otherwise. We get to meet people [...]
Tags: California, digital, film, Fire, foothills, Half Dome, Merced River, Mono Lake, Pentax K1000, photograph, photography, Sonora, tufa, video, Yosemite
Posted by admin on May 3, 2013 in
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It seems like whenever I think it may be time to move on from Idaho and experience some other part of the world that moment of indecision coincides with a trip to the one-hundred-five-year-old Malheur National Wildlife Refuge and surrounding environs in southeastern Oregon. The country there is a mix of high sage and bitterbrush [...]
Tags: Alvord Desert, birds, Blitzen River, branding, buckaroos, Buena Vista Ponds, calves, Central Patrol Road, Diamond, Diamond Loop, French Glen, Harney County, horses, lassos, Malheur, mountain bluebirds, mustangs, P Ranch, Pete French Round Barn, ruddy ducks, sandhill cranes, Steens Mountain, The Narrows
Posted by admin on June 22, 2012 in
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Photography,
Travel
Several weeks ago, Betty and I led some intrepid friends on a photo safari to the Camas Prairie area of Camas County, northeast of Boise. Typical late May weather brought wind and fog and rain and snow instead of sunny skies with puffy clouds sailing east to west. It was Memorial Day weekend so we [...]
Tags: art, aspen, Bennett Mountain, Boise, Camas, Camas County, Camas Prairie, Cat Creek Summit, corrals, cranes, curlew, ducks, Fairfield, geese, Geoff Krueger, painting, phalaropes, photography, snipes, Soldier Mountains
Posted by admin on February 24, 2012 in
Musings,
Photography
Last Saturday Betty and I hung her photography exhibit in Boise at an event titled Art in the Bar V at the Knitting Factory Concert House. It turned out to be a 15-hour event and it took us a few days to recover from that experience. Betty shared booth space with her photographer and writer [...]
Tags: Allan Ansel, Aretha Franklin, Art in the Bar, Betty Rodgers, digital art, El Greco, expressionism, Jefferson Airplane, John Lennon, music, photography, Sheila Robertson, tattoos, The Beatles, Vietnam