Sunday, January 15, 2012 It’s a snow morning in Ashland — the first of 2012! — and a pair of deer took refuge on our path this morning. Funnny thing is, three hours later and they’re still there!
Deer in the first snow of 2012 in Ashland, OR @ Jan 2012 | Canon EOS 5D Mk II & 70-200mm ƒ/4L IS @ ISO 640, ƒ/4, 1/320
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 In this part of Oregon, black bears are plentiful in the woods (estimates are in the 25,000 to 30,000 range), and those of us living on the edge of town know they come down looking for food this time of year. In fact, I have a BearSaver trash can and have tweeted the evidence of bear-sign before. Not to mention I’m regularly cleaning bear, erm, evidence, off the front lawn.
Then a few days before Christmas, we caught a glimpse of a momma and two cubs tearing through the front yard in the late morning. Which is really unusual, as they typically are only around at night.
Then this morning, I spotted them again, down at the creek at the bottom of our property. And they weren’t running away. I had time to grab the long lens and get a few shots through the window!
Black Bear in Ashland, OR — Momma on Watch @ January 2012 | Canon EOS 5D Mk II & 400mm ƒ/4 @ ISO 640, ƒ/4, 1/80
They were up and down the canyon (it’s a small canyon, my house at the top on one side and a creek at the bottom), but I was shooting through windows and trees. They started to come up our path right to the back patio (!!) but thought better of it and turned around. I caught this shot of them bounding across the creek. The 400mm lens was too long to catch all of them in the frame at once!
Saturday, November 19, 2011 I love this picture… made just as she spotted me and my lens. Shot on the streets of Hong Kong.
No Photo! @ September 2011 | Canon EOS 5D Mk II & 85mm ƒ/1.2L II @ ISO 160, ƒ/2, 1/100
Monday, November 14, 2011 I’m in Slovenia visiting Alenka at the moment. Her home is near the Austrian border, and yesterday we took a little “wine walk” for a couple of hours (after stuffing ourselves silly with a Bosnian specialty, Čevapčiči), stopping to sample local wines along the way in both Slovenia and Austria.
The day before we spent a few hours bottling about 1,000 bottles of family wine.
Not a bad way to spend your weekend, I must say. Here’s a few photos (the first set is a slideshow; I’ve had issues getting it to play but I’m on a slow connection. Please let me know in the comments if it’s working or not? Thanks!)…
Filling wine bottles (slideshow). Instagram photos, reposted here.
The impossibly delicious Bosnian Čevapčiči
Slovenian Forest at Sundown @ November 2011 | Fujifilm X100 w/ fixed 23mm [@35mm] ƒ/2.0 lens @ ISO 200, ƒ/5.6, 1/26
A little wine and roasted chestnuts in Austria
Sunset Over Austrian Vineyards @ November 2011 | Fujifilm X100 w/ fixed 23mm [@35mm] ƒ/2.0 lens @ ISO 200, ƒ/2, 1/17
This morning, Alenka’s brother was fixing a hole in the roof. I climbed up for the view, and shot this using Photosynth on the iPhone. Pretty cool software (be sure to pan down; you can see the hole I’m standing in!).
Monday, November 7, 2011 Hello photographers,
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-Joseph
