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Redwoods National and State Parks

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Well, I’ve been neglecting my blog and my photography to some extent. I’m just kicking off a new project photographing at least once a month in Redwoods National and State Parks. I started to do this in 2020 but, well, you know what happened. So, happier times ahead and January is already accomplished. I started out on January 1 at Stout Grove which was way more popular than I would have expected for that date. The new sidebar for this blog is from that trip. Then on January 15 I visited my go to nature trail, the Simpson-Reed trail on Walker Road just off Hwy 199 in Jedidiah Smith State Park. This was my favorite shot from that trip. Still have a lot of parks and a lot of groves to see and photograph. I’m still struggling with how to manage the dog when I’m trying to concentrate on photography. He may have to stay at the kennel sometimes so I can be free to do what I want. I may not manage a weekly blog post but at least monthly for sure the rest of this year.

Bee on Lavender

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Went to the lavender festival with friends last weekend. I was experimenting with a wide angle zoom I’ve had for awhile and never liked because it is too heavy. I didn’t change my mind about it even though this shot turned out OK.

Cormorant

I was testing out my new 600mm lens at the coast last week. I was mostly shooting pelicans but the Cormorants were much more photogenic.

RedPoppy

I’ve been neglecting my blogging duties and I was a little late for the red poppies at North Mountain Park. This one was not bad but the background was boring so I added a texture for some color and visual interest.

Tiedown

I always enjoy looking of intimate scenes at the marina. The tidiness of this tiedown rope made for a perfect graphic black and white.

Lone Ranch Beach

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It dawned on me Sunday that I had not taken many pictures during the past week and I wondered what I was going to do about image of the week. But in looking back at images from my beach walk on Friday I was happy to find this semi-decent one. The colors were very muted due to overcast skies so I decided it would look better as a black and white. I never thought I had much use for the wide angle lens babies but that sweet 35 is really growing on me.

Pink Dogwood

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My neighbor’s Pink Dogwood is always hard to resist. The new Lensbaby Sweet 35 with macro filters was the right tool for the job.

Anemone

This was among the first images out of the new camera. I’m sold. And it was handheld! Unfortunately the hot weather wiped out these beauties a few days later.

Floats

I was hard pressed to come up with anything this week as I was dodging raindrops on Sunday and completely gave up to the pouring rain on Monday. I did manage about five minutes at the harbor between showers. Normally I like the colors on fishing floats but in this case the boat in the background was kind of dull and I thought celebrating the textures and tones might work better.

Trillium

I came to the coast planning to have a full on photography weekend but I stupidly left my tripod at home. I had a bit of adventure finding the Oregon Redwoods trail because there is no sign at the turn going in, only coming out. So, I got to explore about 20 miles of forest road I would not have otherwise. But, when I finally got to the Redwoods trail the salient feature were the trillium just freshly opened. I added a couple of textures to darken the edges and let the flower be the star.