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After dropping my son off the Portland airport to fly back to college, I decided to take a trip up the Columbia River Gorge to see what it had to offer photographically. Turned out to be quite a bit.
However, I wasn't prepared for how cold it was, nor how hard the wind was blowing. The temp gauge in my car said 25 F. I'd estimate that the wind was blowing 25 to 45 mph. That makes the wind chill somewhere below 10 F. Brrr! But I was rewarded with some amazing sights of frozen waterfalls and spray.
On my way back home, I stopped one more time along the river. As I opened my car door, the wind literally ripped it from hand. The door snapped all the way open and beyond. As I heard the crunch of metal on metal, my hat - my favorite hat and a gift from my son - went flying out the door.
In an instant, the hat was at least 30 feet in the air and rapidly disappearing in the distance. The only thing that could stop it was a bare tree. The hat sped right through the tree, and disappeared from sight out over the river.
The damage to my car door is substantial, but at least it still works. But I am much more upset about losing the hat. It had great special meaning to me.
The Perfect Hat
There are probably 20 or 30 hats
hanging on hooks or
stuffed in boxes somewhere in this house.
Over the years I’ve tried to find the one
that fits just so
stays on without a fuss
covers but doesn’t clamp
and feels as natural as breeze.
Some have come close I guess
like the green one with a kangaroo
or the bowler I stretched with a basketball
until it went floating down the Yakima river.
Some were chosen just because of
the look
I thought it would give me
but they never lived up to their promises.
I realized it isn’t a style
or a color
or even a fit.
There is just something that you know
when you see it
and then it goes on like an old leather glove
that has been there a thousand times before.
It joins your head like icing on a cake
and might just taste as good.
This one, the perfect one,
is from my son
who wasn’t sure at first if it was right.
But I knew as soon as I saw it
because this was the one
I think I saw in a dream.
And when sons can see our dreams
everything will be perfect.
John DeJarnatt
12/25/06
I've already replace the hat. Same brand, same fit and feel, but it won't ever be the same hat...
I'm well outside my comfort zone today.....
I nearly deleted this shot when I downloaded Sunday night's pictures to the laptop. But there was something about it that I found appealing. It's a shot of the sun setting over Earlswood Lake and I was trying out that 'zoomy' thing where you shift the zoom as you're shooting. Maybe someone can tell me if there's a better, more technical term I should be using :))
Part of the common and the ministract sets.
Nazzano Tevere Farfa Nature Reserve
The Nazzano Tevere-Farfa Nature Reserve (Site of Community Interest) and SPA (Special Protection Zone) is included in the European Network Natura 2000 (Mediterranean biogeographical region), constituting one of the most valuable natural sites thanks to the considerable presence of habitats and species of Community interest.
The safe zone! In a future over taken by dinosaurs the only survivable locations are the safe zones! 12 foot curved electric fences topped with barbed wire is enough to hold back any raptors but the defences don't hold out against the T Rex...
Melbourne is going into Stage 3 restrictions and lock down for another 6 weeks following surges in community transmission of COVID-19 in various suburbs.
It's Australia's hot zone and many people will suffer from loss of jobs, loss of freedom and increase in fear. Here's hoping this lock down works!
Take care everyone and hold on to hope.
The Toutle River below Loowit (Mount St. Helens) showing massive scars in the blast zone. The power of a volcano is incredible to see up-close.
5-shot panorama at 500mm.
Click twice to zoom in.
After the beautiful kingfishers, this guy decided to stroll into the picture, a big male, I will have to defer to Hemraj Meena for the identification as i carelessly forgot to note it down.
A nice backlit image (slight rim light) through the flora, he was walking to the watering hole to cool off in the late morning sun...
Decided to go up to Silver Lake near Brighton, Utah and retake a shot I had done last year at this same spot (now that I kinda have a handle on this whole Milky Way photography thing). I only had 30 minutes to take sky shots once it got dark before the moon came up so I couldn't get the whole arch in frame, it's getting late in the Milky Way season which makes the big sweeping arch pano's difficult to get done.
This is a tough place to shoot the Milky Way, lots and lots of people with flashlights/cars/annoyances make it challenging to get clean shots without being apparent. Plus this is a bortle 6 zone with LOTS of light pollution, Salt Lake/Ogden is to the far left, Provo/Orem is to the far right, Park City is in the middle on the other side of the Mountain and Heber is below the core in this shot. Makes for very uneven illumination across the sky and color balance is extremely difficult.
While I was taking one of the foreground shots the slowest meteor I've ever seen zipped down to the horizon. It was so slow I could even clearly see it rotating as it burned up. I stopped my exposure 30 seconds short to make sure I got it, luckily I did both in the sky AND the reflection! I had to work that back into the image since it was lost during the stitching.
Altogether this is 12 shots, 5 for the sky, 5 for the foreground, and 2 extra reflection shots. Each taken with my Nikon D600 and Rokinon 24mm f1.4 lens on my Star Adventurer tracking mount. Sky/reflection shots are 2.5 minute exposures at ISO 400 and f2.5. Foreground shots are 2 minute exposures at ISO 800 and f2.5.
The Mesopelagic zone or the twilight zone allows just enough sunlight to pass and almost reaching the bathypelagic zone or the abyss. H O M E Foundation can provide habitable conditions through the depths and beyond.
Build made with Bricklink Studio 2.0 with existing parts and image enhanced and edited in Photoshop.
There are only a few hours left for this year's Vintage Fair.
So, I thought I would leave you all with a look that is totally in my comfort zone. A 1930s Hollywood glam inspired evening attire. If you have been rocking with me for a while, you know that I will blog this look any time of the year. It is something about an elegant evening gown and jewelry that brings joy to my heart.
Find your joy at The Vintage Fair 2026 before time runs out.
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Vintage Fair Items:
Dress: SHOOSH - Vivienne Gown
Bracelet: KUNGLERS - Boba bracelets
Hanging Lamp & Table: 1981 - 20th century light
This picture is dedicated to my most favorite artist of all time! Listening to him gives me feelings / moods (no further details)! Love to listen to him while taking pictures (at night) and bringing me into the zone... giving me the mood to take / edit pictures like that...
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