…just another photo blog
Back in 2013, we visited the west coast again so that we could lay Grandpa Ladd to rest in Newport, Oregon. Afterwards, we drove north to Lincoln City before heading back to Gervais. We had a chance to chill out on the beach, play some frisbee, and frolic in the water. I managed to snag a picture of my daughter, Isa, as she played…
Bandon, Oregon (2011)
In 2014, we took the kids and my sister, Jerrielynn, to see my wife’s family. Unlike the previous two vacations we took out there, I had actually gone out with a photography game plan and I had my D7000 with me. All of my photography, save for one excursion, was confined to the locations that we had planned on visiting while we were out there. Cannon Beach was my photography bucket list item. I know that countless photographers have taken pictures here but it was still someplace I wanted to visit. I wasn’t really concerned with capturing anything that others haven’t already had the chance to do before and I’m sure that I could find much better quality images on …
Taken in June, 2011, on our family vacation to Oregon. This would be one of the few HDR pictures that I kept, mainly because when I tonemapped it I made a concerted effort to make it more natural-looking. We had a lot of fun taking pictures there. It’s really cool, and the driftwood on the beach is amazing. I do remember when I had the original HDR image processed the driftwood was really hard to look at. The HDR made the wood pop and it captured all the detail. It gave me a headache.
Another photograph of the beach near Bandon, Oregon. It was taken a few minutes before the lone figure silhouette shot I posted earlier.
This picture, and others I’ll post, illustrates a good example of the frustrations of rebuilding a blog. Thankfully, because of EXIF data, I know that the picture was taken in June, 2011, while we visited my wife’s family in Oregon and gave the kids an opportunity to see, and in the case of my son – meet, Grandpa Ladd. It was a fun week. The kids got to see the Pacific Ocean for the first time. They got to see sea lions for the first time. We got to see Springfield and Autzen Stadium for the first time. The Pacific Northwest really is a beautiful place and although my heart is in the Midwest, especially the U.P., I could see …