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Camping at Beachside State Park on the Oregon Coast this weekend. Perfect weather, great campfires (and good wine)--one to remember!
Making plans for holidays next summer. Took my Eagle Tourer out for a short spin to check if it's ready and fit for any upcoming camping trips.
My Eagle Tourer is a refurbished 1975 classic Transport model. The passenger pod is fitted with modern interior designed for light leisure travel. It bunks four, there is also a lounge and a small kitchenette. Toilet and shower took a little effort to fit in because, as you know, spaceships rarely have them, but in the end, they went in and work like a charm. Mosquito nets on doorways are a given, there is also a 100mb/s continuous broadband wi-fi.
With the Tourer, any trip is a hoot. You can fly wherever you like (bar non-flying zones) and live in the comfort of the Tourer pod. Holidays – I can't wait!
When I bought the MPC Round2 22" Eagle I did not think how awful it would be to use it in my photographs. It looks great, better than I had anticipated even, and I loved to build it, but those pipes! Oh man, masking them in Photoshop is a nightmare. Especially the spine structure on top, it's a major pain to make look nice and clean.
I am not going to enjoy making these as much as I thought I would, but it's sill more fun than a barrel of monkeys. :)
A golden sunset at China Camp, with a Manzanita tree silhouetted against the bay, and Mount Burdell beyond.
This is one of the the closest state parks to where I live, which happens to be between the mountain in the background and where I was standing.
Rose and I went for an evening walk around the camp grounds. It was so beautiful, relaxing, and peaceful. :)
Looking south from the top of British camp towards Swinyard hill in the distance.
The weather forecast had said that there was a slight chance of some decent light at sunset, sat on the top of the British Camp on a cold and very windy evening that seemed very remote but just as the sun went down I did get some colour in the sky.
Since the evening wasn't the best weather wise at least I had the hill top to myself.
I have no idea when or where this photo was taken. There are two tents, and it seems that the one on the left has a cot and a packing trunk of some kind.
I put in an arbitrary date of 1935, but I have no idea if that is correct...
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To the best of my knowledge, most of the photos in this Flickr album were taken by my grandmother, Mabel Yourdon, during the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. Most of them depict scenes of everyday life in mining camps and small towns near the Utah-Colorado border. Some of them show hunting, fishing, and camping trips in unspecified parts of the American west. It appears that a few of them were taken in southern California, when Mabel and her husband Ike traveled out there to visit relatives.
I have no idea what kind of camera Mabel used for these photos, nor what kind of film. There probably wasn’t that much variety available in the 1920s, and she was not a “professional” photographer. So it may have been a Brownie and whatever B/W film Kodak was selling at the time.
My stepfather, Ray Yourdon, was born in 1922; and his older brother, Marvin, was born two years before that. You’ll see photos of Ray and Marvin when they were young boys, when they were in high school, and when they went off to join the Navy and the Marines to fight in World War II.
Somewhere around 2005, I asked Ray if he could tell me the details of some of the photos; where possible, I have included those details in the notes for the photos. Some of the photos obviously evoked pleasant memories, and I heard stories about minor day-to-day events in his life that I had never heard before. But we rarely got through more than a few pictures before he ran out of energy; and so many of the photos have no explanation at all.
At this point, my parents and grandparents are all gone. I have cousins who grew up in the same area where these photos were taken, and one or two of them are still in that area. They may be able to fill in a few of the details; otherwise, you’ll just have to accept these photos as a glimpse of what life was like nearly a hundred years ago ...
WA.
i am still digging some shots i never bothered posting. it's insightful going through years of photographies.
on a side note, i knew i couldn't stay away from a Leica camera for too long. i pulled the trigger on the Leica Q.
Not the most extreme camping, but still a lot of fun. Got lucky with a meteor shower hitting right as we arrived into camp, so obviously when you have just been driving 7 hours and its 2am, you stay up 2 more hours to take some photos =]
Originally the shower was estimated to be between 100 and 400 meteors per hour, but it seems to have been far below that. There were a couple of nice fireballs that i happened to miss, but I am pleased with the one =]
Taking the term 'camping under the stars' to an entirely new level, this was the interplanetary view from our campsite this weekend at Paulina Lake, Oregon. The skies were perfectly clear at 1am and I was anticipating an amazing star-filled sky, but I was not expecting to see the aurora borealis.
Techie Stuff: Shot at f5.6, thirty second exposure at ISO 6400.
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*giggles* well I use to love going ot summertime, love camping,I special love to have my birthday party down my the river and roast smore at night,
Sunset over Camp Wilderness Ridge in the Guadalupe Ranger District of the Lincoln National Forest, New Mexico.
We had reservations to go camping in Mt Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest but there was a forest fire about 20 miles from our park. So we loaded up anyways and headed in the opposite direction to Whidbey Island hoping to find a last minute spot.
We finally found this park and even though they said they were full they had some campers that left early and we were able to snag their spot. :) We had fun but I think this is the loudest campsite I've ever been to. Up until midnight we could hear a group talking and laughing so loudly that we couldn't sleep. I'm not sure if those people were extremely loud or if sound carried further because of the way the trees were.
We still had fun despite the loud neighbors and campfire ban because we ate chili, drank beer and played card games in the woods. :)