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Jan 23, 2026: ‘Unjolly Holly" Our long false spring followed by deep cold snap has betrayed many of the plants in this area.

Jan 22, 2026: Not the most successful experiment…I really take much better photos when I have decent image stabilization and focus peaking available.

Jan 22, 2026: Today’s silly experiment…Sigma 70-300mm A-mount lens on a micro four thirds camera body. I already had the lens and the camera and the …

Jan 22, 2026: “Oregon Dawn” Another cold shot from the top of Mount Pisgah.

Jan 21, 2026: “Surrounded”

Jan 21, 2026: “Abstract Interweb” Spider web + freezing fog + flash + red gel.

Jan 21, 2026: “Sugary Fireworks” Freezing fog can make most anything prettier.

Jan 21, 2026: “Sea of Fog” As I’d hoped, the summit of Mount Pisgah was above the valley fog, and I took photos in the dawn light until my fingers …

Jan 21, 2026: 28 degrees and foggy out there this morning. Perfect day for a hike! (It’s always a perfect day for a hike).

Jan 20, 2026: On the plus side, Osprey replaced my old Duro 15 for free under their “Almighty Guarantee” after determining they couldn’t mend the …

Jan 20, 2026: “New Growth”

Jan 20, 2026: “Predator Success” Seen on the way to Blanket Creek Falls.

Jan 20, 2026: “Out Front” It was a bit tough walking the dog in below-freezing temperatures this morning, but taking the camera along made it more …

Jan 20, 2026: “Blanket Creek Falls” I spent several hours on some serious bushwhacking yesterday to get to the spot where I could take this picture. Not …

Jan 19, 2026: “The Slot” Erosion at work along Brice Creek. Also testing the new “punchy blender” preset in Darktable.

Jan 19, 2026: “Reaching” Just some moss hanging on to a cliff face.

Jan 19, 2026: “Cascade of Light” 2-second exposure from behind Upper Trestle Creek Falls.

Jan 18, 2026: “Ghost Leaf”

Jan 18, 2026: “Clear and Cold” With bonus reflected trees.

Jan 18, 2026: “Creation Blues” Actually, frost on top of my car this morning.

Jan 18, 2026: “Quality of Light” Another view of Brice Creek Falls.

Jan 18, 2026: “Art of a River” From a technical standpoint, this is a pretty horrible photo. But I still like the way it evokes the confusion of the …

Jan 17, 2026: “Brice Creek Falls” One of the stops on today’s 16-mile hike. I’m so glad to live in Oregon.

Jan 16, 2026: “Confusion” The gardening sites tell me azaleas bloom in April or May in Zone 8b, where I live. So according to this bush down the road …

Jan 16, 2026: “Forest Plesiosaur” Prehistoric animal sighting in the fog.

Jan 15, 2026: Phone Fatigue Google just spammed my phone with a list of great new Android features. As usual there is not a single one of them that I have any interest in using. …

Jan 15, 2026: “Echo of a Farm” I’m pretty sure this bit of ironmongery is an old well head. Now though it’s a lichen farm.

Jan 15, 2026: “Winter Remnant” A gray shot from a very gray day. The structure of trees against sky is a continuing fascination for me.

Jan 15, 2026: “Frosting” Well, actually, fungus. But it sure looks like a poorly-executed cake frosting flower.

Jan 15, 2026: “Chomp!” Perhaps this isn’t one mushroom eating another, but I can’t unsee it.

Jan 14, 2026: “Foggy Hills”

Jan 14, 2026: “Peekaboo”

Jan 13, 2026: “Hazy Diamond” Diamond Peak is 30 or 40 miles up the river from where I was standing on Mount Pisgah. So yeah, the view was hazy, but most …

Jan 13, 2026: “Drunken Sailors” We’ve had strangely mild winter weather so far, but looks like the hard frosts the past couple of nights finally …

Jan 13, 2026: “Spray” Some lichen with the frost melting off in the sun.

Jan 13, 2026: “Rainbow Rays” Well, I don’t know if the constraints really helped, but I did get some photos that I rather like. Here’s one, …

Jan 13, 2026: Sunday I took out two camera bodies, five lenses, flash gear…and only got a couple photos I really liked. So today I’m going to try …

Jan 12, 2026: “Peaceful Morning” A somewhat chilly view of Fall Creek from the trail that runs above it on the hillside. Who needs a drone?

Jan 12, 2026: “Fisheye out of Water” Intersection of Fall Creek and Timber Creek.

Jan 12, 2026: “Unnecessary Sign” Fortunately there was a handy log just upstream.

Jan 12, 2026: “Frostmelt” Walking the trail in bright sun after freezing fog resulted in millions of sparkling drops everywhere.

Jan 11, 2026: “Rebirth” Spotted this one tiny mushroom while I was hiking through a completely burned area along Fall Creek.

Jan 11, 2026: “Escape”

Jan 10, 2026: “Spring Preview” Spent some time in my yard playing with a new-to-me lens (Sony 1.8/35 SAM on an A58). Pretty noisy even at fairly low ISO …

Jan 10, 2026: “Butterflies in the Rain” Another of Eugene’s many murals.

Jan 10, 2026: “Weathered Wave” Architectural detail from Eugene Fire Station #1 with (obviously) some cinematic post-processing.

Jan 10, 2026: “No Parking Bud” Possibly the most Eugene parking meter ever.

Jan 10, 2026: “Circle of Mushrooms” These tiny little guys were only about an inch across all told.

Jan 9, 2026: “Pigs in a Tree” I dunno, maybe nobody else sees round heads with snouts here.

Jan 9, 2026: “It’s Winter Dammit!” There was just enough snow at the top of Spencer Butte for some dedicated hiker to build a tiny snowman.

Jan 9, 2026: “Spores” Playing around with a new flash…clearly didn’t get enough light for noise reduction here, but I still like the feel.

Jan 7, 2026: “Tiny Dam” I suppose it’s old tech by now, but I’m always amazed by image stabilization in modern cameras. This is a …

Jan 7, 2026: “Moss Garden”

Jan 7, 2026: “Over the Parapet” Tiny mushroom at Mount Pisgah.

Jan 6, 2026: “Sea and Sky” 60-second exposure (with ND10 filter + in-camera ND5) turned this day of wind and surf into this dreamy image.

Jan 6, 2026: “Surfing Gulls”

Jan 6, 2026: “Dreaming Gulls” The ND10 filter I was using at Bob Creek gave the original a horrible greenish cast, but reprocessing as monochrome it …

Jan 5, 2026: “Glisten” Tiniest mushrooms along the Ridgeline Trail. Had to thrash through some brambles to get this shot but it was worth it.

Jan 4, 2026: “Moss Flamingos” Like lawn flamingos, but different.

Jan 4, 2026: “Cape Perpetua Spray” I rather like the ethereal look of long exposures of crashing waves and foam. I need to find some subjects other …

Jan 4, 2026: “Cascade” Trailside stream along the Glynn Creek Trail.

Jan 4, 2026: “Lights” Pre-dawn moonlight and lighthouse at Heceta Head.

Jan 4, 2026: Plenty of surf around Cape Perpetua this morning (this is about halfway between low & high tide) (cc: @jean)

Jan 2, 2026: Good grief, something went horribly wrong in Darktable when I recropped that last photo. Here’s the square crop for comparison. Still trying to …

Jan 2, 2026: Just a little piece of beach agate on my desk. I think this turned out OK, though there’s still room to experiment with the lighting. (Edit: …

Jan 1, 2026: “Quiet”

Jan 1, 2026: “Eugene Christmas” Last year someone decorated a straggly little pine in our local park. This year the Parks department removed that tree …

Jan 1, 2026: “Shiny” People sometimes look at me funny when I’m down in the mud taking photos like this. I don’t really mind. My life is …

Jan 1, 2026: “Rhododendron” Just a pic I liked from this morning’s walk in the rain.

Dec 31, 2025: “Winter’s Nap”

Dec 31, 2025: The older I get, the less interested I am in end-of-the-year think pieces, summaries, wrap-ups, and “best of” lists. Years pass so quickly …

Dec 31, 2025: “Self-photobomb” Fisheye fun atop Mount Pisgah

Dec 31, 2025: “Fluffed” A cold morning for birds.

Dec 30, 2025: “Gills” I was tempted to edit out some of the little imperfections of this mushroom but if I was going to do that I might as well just …

Dec 30, 2025: “Ferndrop” Just playing around with macro lenses and a new flash.

Dec 30, 2025: “Fooled You” It was cold enough this morning that these water drops were actually ice drops.

Dec 29, 2025: Dog doesn’t really know what to make of new fisheye lens, but she disapproves of photos in general. Also, it’s going to be really hard to …

Dec 29, 2025: “Bad Luck in the Woods” Never know what you’ll find tossed out at trailside.

Dec 29, 2025: “No” Had planned to go to the top but it would be hard to pretend I missed the sign.

Dec 29, 2025: “Horns of the Cow” Close up of a cow parsnip flower past its prime

Dec 28, 2025: “Looking into Forever” I was out hiking in the Oregon coast range today. It goes on for a ways.

Dec 27, 2025: “What the Hellebore” Green Hellebore flower in my garden that has mistaken December for spring. The focus stacking didn’t really …

Dec 27, 2025: “Marching Giants” Trail at Mount Pisgah along a BPA right of way.

Dec 26, 2025: “Morning Hike” I see a lot of scenes like this when I’m out in the winter. It’s nice that the sun is starting to inch back …

Dec 26, 2025: “Friends” Mushrooms at Mount Pisgah. People look at me funny when I’m laying in the mud to take these pictures but I can’t …

Dec 26, 2025: “Winter is Here” It was clear at the top of Mount Pisgah this morning, but it was pretty easy to see the snowstorm further up the …

Dec 26, 2025: 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 12: Home 📷 While our house was being remodeled, I lived in the garage for a few months. Washroom front …

Dec 25, 2025: “Love You” A very Eugene sort of fence.

Dec 25, 2025: “Ferndrop”

Dec 25, 2025: About that Feast Part of my life in a photograph

Dec 25, 2025: 12 Days of Winter Wonder Photo Challenge - Day 11: Feast 📷 A Christmas morning feast, just the way I like it.

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Dec 23, 2025: “Slimy” Not every mushroom is super photogenic.

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