camping – Following Raven's Call to Adventure

Spring trip to the Blue Mountains

I just returned from our little piece of the Blue Mountains. The weather was perfect. Hooray for Spring! While I was there,[…]

“It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must[…]

While wildfires raged in the Cascades, I spent some time in the Ochoco highlands. The smoke restricted photo opportunities, and[…]

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. Henri Cartier-Bresson I’m nowhere near completing my first 10,000 photographs, even counting[…]

I remember feeling like a failure so often on my journey because so many of my dreams never materialized… I[…]

I had great plans for this holiday weekend, a short trip to the Gifford Pinchot Forest. I would get some[…]

In the dim reaches of the past I carried an Olympus OM-1 trying to photograph nature. I can think of[…]

Oregon is commonly thought of as a wet, green state. In fact, over one-third of the state is desert and[…]

In south central Oregon, next to the sandiest part of the Oregon Desert, improbably grows a stand of Ponderosa pine. […]

On my travels around the desert, I’ve come across a few places where someone has dumped loads of trash. In[…]