Whereby M. G. Halle Lays it All Out…Silky Style
For starters one way to avoid crowds is to take advantage of extreme weather and get out when most everyone is in. Yesterday was such a day on an abandoned trail in the Columbia River Gorge near Cascade Locks.
You saw it here first folks. A good time was had by all last weekend east of Mt. Hood and no one was life-flighted to the hospital. Some of these rigs with swapped out snowmachine engines cruise up to 45mph.
Spent a nice day with the family at Timberline yesterday and couldn’t resist this picture of my daughter and Smokey the Bear.
These things, also know as harscheisen, have come in handy several times so far this season and will probably be required for much of the ascent of Mt. St. Helens tomorrow.
This was the setup for a portrait of a CEO at a winery in Turner, Oregon inauguration day morning. I can’t stop thinking about President Obama and the beautifully stained barrels. They make me smile.
A Chicago photographer, Lyle A. Waisman, sent me an email today and informed me that my studio and dog Jane are in PDN. Cool. Cranky interweb trolls crack me up!
I spent the better part of yesterday helping a friend shoot some high definition video of Lanny at work. Turns out I didn’t have to help much; instead of wrangling a mic I set my camera’s aperture to f2, used no stobes and just clicked away. Sometimes it doesn’t feell like serious photography without stobes but then again it feels liberating to simplify, compose and stalk moments.
Today’s was an exploratory tour I’ve wanted to ski for a while. After a long approach Lynn, Blake and I found great corn snow to the southeast of Lookout Mountain near Mt. Hood. We could have chosen a better line to ski and were forced to traverse through thick trees and over lots of bits and boughs more than we would have liked. The views and uncanny feeling like we were on a Sierra Nevada spring trip made up for the descent. The views of Hood, Adams, Rainier, Helens, Jefferson, Washintgon and the Sisters were clear and a cold foggy blanket extended to the horizon east of the Cascades.
