Day Sixty-Six: Pedaling to the Library

Day Sixty-Five: Shadows and Reflections

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Day Sixty-Four: People Watching at the Park

I am ambivalent about capturing people on camera in public.  Today's shots were from a distance and it didn't seem that anyone noticed me taking photos.  When I first published the original year of photo-a-day on this Blogger platform (2010+, scroll down), I wrote a short piece citing the idea that if people are out in public they are not protected from being photographed by tenets or laws of privacy.  I was uneasy about that at the time and am uneasy still.

Day Sixty-Three: Powell Butte Flower Walk

Orange and green: first the flower and then the fruit

Day Sixty-Two: SE Division Street Sculpture Walk 1

SE 20th and SE Division.  Crystal Schenk & Shelby Davis

Day Sixty-One: Oscar Bonbon

On lazy days, Oscar has to pose for this blog so I wrapped him up in tissue paper and took a few shots.  This is the one where he looks most annoyed. 

Day Sixty: White Cloud with Trees and Urban Infrastructure

After weeks of grey skies, a large white cumulo-form cloud



Taken with the Canon G10

Day Fifty-Nine: Camas Still in Bloom at Cooper Mountain

Lovely Camas, taken with iPhone under overcast skies and then cropped almost to oblivion.  

The [Kalapuya] bands harvested the bulbs of several plants belonging to the lily family.  The most important of these to the Kalapuya was camas, a wild blue lily. In spring, women and children harvested its young shoots, boiling and consuming them at once.  By June, the plant was fully grown, and the ripened bulbs were ready for gathering. 
  
From Juntunen, Dash and Rogers, The World of the Kalapuya.  2005: 48. 

Day Fifty-Eight: Dwarf Canadian Yew

My winter holidays tree is showing new growth after two seasons on the balcony

Day Fifty-Seven: Rust, Trash and Poppies

These poppies caught my eye today as I was walking around SE Hawthorne neighborhood.  Immediate contrast between vivid full blooms and derelict trash cans plus rusty fencing. 

[From now on I will be mostly using  the D80 in aperture priority, learning as I go along.]

Day Fifty-Six: Drawing a Warbler

First time using colored pencils and drawing a bird.  It's fun to experiment on bits and pieces of contour and color shading.  Soon I can put it all together.  

Also I am reviving shooting photos with the DSLR in aperture priority, going through my D80 manuals and winging it. 

One Magnolia Warbler in process

Day Fifty-Five: Sculptures on Division

What I saw on a grey day...

Small sculptures on Division

Crystal Schenk & Shelby Davis

Day Fifty-Four: Playing with DSLR Black and White in My Own Backyard

 

Day Fifty-Three: Detail and Texture

Going back to the DSLR with help from a PParksRec class.  Yippee!

Day Fifty-Two: Portrait Practice for Photo Class

Portrait One

Portrait Two

Day Fifty-One: Once Again at the Rhodie Garden with the iPhone

Waterdrops and Greens

Day Fifty: At the Refuge in May

The Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge is one of the few national urban refuges with duel missions of providing shelter and food for waterfowl and other birds using the Pacific flyway as a migration route as well as providing outdoor experiences and wildlife viewing for people. 

This is one of my favorite volunteer venues.  Right now you can spot/hear songbirds such as lazuli bunting and yellow-breasted chat, both with distinctive songs, as well as great blue heron, osprey and great horned owl.  

Lovely Visitor Center = Happy Visitors

Lupine in bloom, frequented by bumble bee species

Golden Paintbrush, a listed species in Oregon

Great blue heron surveys one of the ponds

Come visit the gift store

Walk the trails, watch wildlife, learn about the refuge's mission. 

Day Forty-Nine: Herman the Sturgeon

Herman the Sturgeon swims round and round his pool at the Bonneville fish hatchery.  He flirted with us by lifting his head out of the water and slapping it back down with a splash.

Green and more green.