tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-129306272024-03-07T18:39:36.609-08:00The Blaine Franger Photography BlogThis is my blog, hope you enjoy! There isn't much I don't love photographing although my favorites tend to be nature, animals, landscapes, travel and people. I am lucky to call Hood River, Oregon home but definitely love to get out and travel! Stoked on life, hope you are too, it's a wonderful ride.
Also do wedding & portrait photography! <a href="http://www.blaineandbethany.com/">Blaine and Bethany Photography</a>blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.comBlogger519125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12930627.post-40006427529200748212011-05-18T15:25:00.000-07:002011-05-18T15:25:28.463-07:00South Point on Big Island of Hawaii<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Just spent the past couple months on the Big Island of Hawaii and published some images to my other photo blog- <a href="http://beautifulhoodriver.com/">http://beautifulhoodriver.com/</a><br />
One of these days I'll figure out all the different blogs I have and where to post what. I'm not sure what the purpose and function of <a href="http://blog.blainefranger.com/">this blog</a> should be anymore! haha<br />
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Anyway, just came across this photo of South Point on the Big Island and it's making me really miss Hawaii!<br />
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</div>blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12930627.post-71039913246887348562011-03-05T11:58:00.000-08:002011-03-05T12:01:42.393-08:00Officially debunking this "Hood River Oregon" Photo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'd like to take a moment and just for the fun of it, officially debunk one of the most popular photos out there representing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hood_River,_Oregon">Hood River Oregon</a>. Here is the photo: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/hood-river-or.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/hood-river-or.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I only bring it up because I've seen the photo countless times on websites and blogs and people saying stuff like "look how amazing Hood River is! This photo is totally real!" </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The second I saw this photo I knew it was a huge fake. Why? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">#1) Mount Hood is waaaaaay too large. Yes, it's easy to make Mt. Hood look larger than life by using a telephoto lens to shoot Hood River and Mount Hood in the same frame, like in the image below. But in the fake photo, the foreground (Cliff, River, Town, etc) is shot with a wide angle lens and the mountain was a separate photo shot with a telephoto lens, and pasted in using photoshop. If you look closely, you can actually see the line where it was pasted in at the base of the mountain. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://beautifulhoodriver.com/index.php?showimage=9"><img border="0" height="424" src="http://beautifulhoodriver.com/images/20100430045000__mg_0481_4-26-10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">#2) The mountain is pasted in what seems about 30 miles too far to the West. I'm not exactly sure where the foreground photo was taken from, but the photographer was East of the bridge. The mountain would be far out of the frame to the East... here is a photo proving that! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://beautifulhoodriver.com/index.php?showimage=197"><img border="0" height="426" src="http://beautifulhoodriver.com/images/20101026234507__mg_3508_10-27-10.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">#3) I think this part is really funny. Even if the size and placement of the mountain were fine, there is still another huge problem. Why is it winter in town, and summer on the mountain? Fresh snow covering the ground and trees in town, but lots of bare rock and dirt at high elevations on the mountain!? What kind of sense does that make??? Not much :) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div>#4) Lastly, what happened to the 30 miles of land between Hood River and the base of Mount Hood? All of Hood River Valley is gone including Odell, Parkdale, Middle Mountain, the West Hills and Mt Defiance... they don't exist in that photo! <br />
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I have no idea who originally photographed/photoshopped the image but I almost wonder if it was a joke to see if people would believe it? It seems nobody really questions it!<br />
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Ok that's enough of that. Just wasting some time on a quiet Saturday morning :) </div>blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12930627.post-30019040319890665322011-02-15T10:34:00.000-08:002011-02-15T10:34:56.650-08:00Which image?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Bethany and I took a trip almost 4 years ago that lasted 6 months and we hit about 12 countries in Asia, Australia, and New Zealand! We shot over 100,000 images on the trip and finally are JUST NOW! getting around to working on them and maybe even making some huge canvas prints for our walls...<br />
We're having a super hard time deciding which image to choose of these three! We have many other photos for sure chosen but this one is a toss up... what do you think!? The canvas will be a 24"x36"...<br />
Thanks!<br />
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</div>blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12930627.post-43006146055318691862010-07-16T02:12:00.000-07:002010-07-16T02:12:35.552-07:00Ellary's first time to Lost Lake<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/_MG_9271-Edit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/_MG_9271-Edit.jpg" /></a></div>blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12930627.post-91331245422194000172010-07-11T13:34:00.000-07:002010-07-11T13:35:29.223-07:00Columbia River Panorama<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre;">You could say I'm a little envious of this view... </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre;">taken yesterday from the backyard of a beautiful house on the White Salmon, Washington bluff. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre;">I'd never leave home if I lived there! </span><br />
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</span></span>blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12930627.post-87839311628440768732010-07-02T13:45:00.000-07:002010-07-02T13:45:38.094-07:00"Beautiful Hood River" photography exhibit TONIGHT!Please join us for opening night of <a href="http://beautifulhoodriver.com/index.php?showimage=85">"Beautiful Hood River". A photography exhibit by Blaine Franger.</a> Downtown Hood River at The Pines Tasting Room, 2nd & State St. First Friday, July 2nd, 2010. Live music 6-9PM, Free Admission. Show will be up July 2nd - Aug 3rd so please come anytime if you can't make it to the opening night!<br />
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I'm working on starting a brand new "family blog" to post all our baby pics and stories to. Hope to have it up and running shortly... will keep ya posted. In the meantime, here are just a quick few of the thousands of photos we've taken in the last week.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/ellary/05IMG_0422.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/ellary/05IMG_0422.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/ellary/06IMG_0420.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/ellary/06IMG_0420.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/ellary/07_MG_6049.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/ellary/07_MG_6049.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/ellary/08_MG_5965.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/ellary/08_MG_5965.jpg" /></a></div>blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12930627.post-70344385762731706682010-06-03T11:42:00.000-07:002010-06-03T11:43:36.937-07:00Mt. Hood cover image of Columbia Gorge MagazineFor you Columbia Gorge and Pacific Northwest blog followers, you might recognize this months cover image of the beautiful <a href="http://columbiagorge.com/">Columbia Gorge Magazine</a>! <br />
It's my image of wildflowers and Mt. Hood that I took August of 2009 while hiking the Timberline Trail (around the perimeter of Mt. Hood). It looks great on the cover! <br />
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If you'd like to see more images from that trip, here are the links- <br />
<a href="http://blog.blainefranger.com/2009/09/mt-hood-timberline-trail-day-1.html">Day 1 photos</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.blainefranger.com/2009/09/mt-hood-timberline-trail-day-2.html">Day 2 photos</a><br />
<a href="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/2009/09/mt-hood-timberline-trail-day-3.html">Day 3 photos</a><br />
(I still need to blog day 4 photos... someday!) <br />
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Here is the original un-cropped cover image- <br />
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Anyway, I was just looking though some old hard drives and came upon my "graduation portfolio" images from when I graduated in 2004. Remember all I wanted to do was stock photography, so that's what this work mostly reflects. Fun to look back at all these older images! I still have some <a href="http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?assettype=image&artist=Blaine+Franger">stock images on Getty Images site here</a> if you'd like to check them out. Surprisingly, it actually still does pretty well and I get royalty checks in the mail every month, sometimes as little as $50 and sometimes for thousands of dollars, it's very up and down!<br />
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Anyway here are the portfolio images from 2004:<br />
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Or just click on the pic below! Use the back/forward arrow keys to browse through the images or you can use the mouse too.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">There is lots to look through on this blog too, if you look at the whole first page then just click on the archives below on the right! Does anyone know how to add the "older posts" and "newer posts" buttons at the bottom of this blog template? I've seen it on people's blogs but have never been able to figure it out! </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">I have TONS of new stuff to post here soon but not quite yet... time is short and I have a lot going on right now... Thanks for your patience though! </span></span></span>blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12930627.post-17449178741861122052010-05-10T23:51:00.000-07:002010-05-11T00:02:13.408-07:00Featured on "blogs of note"The folks at <a href="http://blogger.com">Google's Blogger</a> department apparently have taken note of <a href="http://blog.blainefranger.com/">my blog</a> and featured it on <a href="http://blogsofnote.blogspot.com/">"blogs of note"</a>. Sweet! Now I feel like I need to blog about something interesting and noteworthy... maybe tomorrow. :) <br /><a href="http://blogsofnote.blogspot.com/"><img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/blogs_of_note.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Spike in web traffic! <br /><img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/web_traffic.jpg" />blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12930627.post-59596775156623510142010-05-03T21:12:00.000-07:002011-03-07T19:56:20.439-08:003rd Place in Alaska Airlines 2010 Photo Contest<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">A few days ago I got great news that I placed 3rd in the Alaska Airlines 2010 Photo Contest! Not bad for more than 1,500 entries. :)<br />
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If you're taking an Alaska or Horizon air flight in the near future, checkout the magazine to see the winners! <a href="http://blainefranger.com/misc/2010_Photo_Contest_Winners.pdf">Click here</a> for a PDF of all the winners.<br />
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Here are scans of the Alaska Air magazine (the Horizon one is a little different but in Alaska's my photo was a bit larger)<br />
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Cover-<br />
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Page with my Puffer fish image-<br />
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A few friends have already been on flights and congratulated me on Facebook, this is the funniest one by my buddy James Munk, haha!<br />
<a href="http://beautifulhoodriver.com/"><img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/alaska_air_jamesmunk.jpg" /></a></div>blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12930627.post-32583101784977695682010-04-30T18:00:00.000-07:002010-04-30T18:18:09.753-07:00New Blog! Beautiful Hood River, Oregon!Hi all, <br />Just today I launched a new blog that I fully intend on keeping up with a lot better than this one. It's called <a href="http://beautifulhoodriver.com/">"Beautiful Hood River"</a> and the address is <a href="http://beautifulhoodriver.com/">http://beautifulhoodriver.com/</a>. The idea behind it is simply just a photo a day from my beautiful hometown, Hood River Oregon. I have thousands upon thousands of images that have never seen the light of day, so hopefully this will be a good way to get some of them out there to be seen. Each and every day at 12:01AM the blog will automatically update itself with a new image, that is, as long as I keep on top of the "posting in the future", haha. <br />Please also check out the Beautiful Hood River, Oregon <a href="http://www.facebook.com/beautifulhoodriver">facebook page HERE</a> and click "like" to keep updated with the new photos and general Hood River stuff. :) <br /><br /><a href="http://beautifulhoodriver.com/"><img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/Beautiful_Hood_River_Oregon.jpg" /></a>blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12930627.post-12236344312759248842010-04-30T00:40:00.000-07:002010-04-30T01:00:17.862-07:00A little drive to MosierBethany and I wanted to get out of the house today so we took a little drive to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosier,_Oregon">Mosier</a>, the back way. :)<br />Everything is so green and vibrant this time of year, I love it! These are some photos I shot along the way...<br /><br />Columbia River and Syncline, Washington<br /><img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/001_MG_1784_columbia_syncline.jpg" /><br /><br />Columbia River and Syncline, Washington<br /><img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/002_MG_1795columbia_syncline.jpg" /><br /><br />Tractor Sign- <br /><img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/003_MG_1813_tractor_sign.jpg" /><br /><br />Trees- <br /><img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/004_MG_1819_trees_clouds.jpg" /><br /><br />Oak tree and cloud-<br /><img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/005_MG_1822_tree_cloud.jpg" /><br /><br />Cloud reflections on a pond- <br /><img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/006_MG_1832_cloud_reflection.jpg" /><br /><br />Mt Adams-<br /><img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/007_MG_1844_Mt_Adams.jpg" />blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12930627.post-84388304877263025862010-04-24T22:43:00.000-07:002010-04-24T22:47:47.422-07:00Hood River MarinaThe Hood River Marina/Port area a few evenings ago. <img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/_MG_1744_HoodRiver_Marina.jpg"/>blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12930627.post-3938853644130770852010-04-17T01:52:00.000-07:002010-04-17T01:59:04.343-07:00Columbia River Gorge SunsetLots of photos of the Columbia River recently! Here is one I managed to quickly grab of the sunset tonight after finishing up a busy day of work and heading to dinner with friends and family. I was hoping the sunset would perform a lot better with amazing colors, which it didn't, but still very beautiful and peaceful cloud formations. :) <br /><br /><img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/_MG_2020_Columbia_River_Sunset.jpg"/>blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12930627.post-88121825641481168592010-04-15T00:44:00.000-07:002010-04-15T01:00:00.729-07:00Columbia River Panorama at Sunset6 photos stitched together to make this panorama. Shot handheld from a kayak! <br />Click pic to see it larger. <br /><a href="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/Columbia_River_Panorama.jpg"><img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/Columbia_River_Panorama_750px.jpg"/></a>blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12930627.post-59197209887643531002010-04-14T23:27:00.000-07:002010-04-15T00:06:33.546-07:00Latourell Falls, Columbia River Gorge, OregonI dropped Bethany off at PDX yesterday and decided to bring my camera for some waterfall photos on the way back to Hood River. <br /><br />This is Latourell Falls, right off the Historic Columbia River Highway where there are many many waterfalls. This is 6 vertical images stitched together to make a panorama. Resolution and detail are greatly improved by shooting multiple frames for a panorama rather than just simply cropping. <br /><br />Latourell Falls Horizontal Panorama- <br /><img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/Lautourell_Falls_Panorama1123.jpg"/><br /><br />Latourell Falls Vertical Panorama-<br /><img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/Lautourell_Falls_Panorama1124.jpg"/><br /><br />And thanks to my new <a href="http://products.lowepro.com/product/Pro-Roller-x200,2163,16.htm">Lowepro Pro Roller x200</a> for the much needed rest for 3rd tripod leg! :) <br /><img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/IMG_7483_tripod.jpg"/>blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12930627.post-48027349181662700392010-04-02T00:27:00.000-07:002010-04-02T00:37:12.428-07:00Panorama photo of Hood River, Columbia River, and Mount HoodI went out shooting this morning and ended up coming home with this new panoramic image I'm pretty happy with! It consists of 23 vertical images stitched together in Photoshop. Printed out at full size without enlarging the file size, it would span about 175 inches wide and 20 inches tall. HUGE! <br />Here is a small preview of the image, click to see it larger! <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/hoodriver_columbiariver_panorama-714971.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 64px;" src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/hoodriver_columbiariver_panorama-714878.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br /><br />Also <a href="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/2009/11/panorama-photo-of-hood-river-mount-hood.html">here is a link</a> to another previous panorama image of the Columbia Gorge.blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12930627.post-70495272172163529062010-04-01T23:07:00.000-07:002010-04-01T23:18:16.973-07:00Rainbow over Columbia River GorgeYes I know... over a month with no new posts! I'm a slacker.... <br />Been shooting lots and lots of new photos recently but haven't been posting them, obviously. Still working on the thousands of Mexico photos from January too. <br /><br />Anyway, for now just wanted to share a quick photo from this morning! <br /><br />Rainbow over Columbia River Gorge- <br /><img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/_MG_9820_columbiagorge_rainbow.jpg"/>blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12930627.post-6222716578945517342010-02-21T01:08:00.000-08:002010-02-21T01:19:52.658-08:00My Alaska Airlines photo contest entryA snapshot of my 3 entries to the 2010 <a href="http://www.alaskaair.com/">Alaska Airlines</a> photo contest... chances of winning are super slim but never know if ya don't try. :) <br />I decided to enter it last minute on the day of the postmark deadline and had to pick a few photos that happened to be on my laptop at the time... then super quick sent them to Walgreens 1-hour (they look like crap) and made it to the post office a few minutes before they closed... <br /><br /><img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/IMG_6337_alaskaaircontest.jpg"/>blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12930627.post-15236727386611505442010-02-20T23:16:00.000-08:002010-02-21T01:20:30.941-08:00Mt. Hood Sunset from frozen Kingsley ReservoirI've been itching to get out on my dirtbike for a long time now with all this traveling and finally had a chance to go out for a quick sunset ride this evening. Forgot how much I love being on my Honda CRF450x out there in the woods. So much adrenaline riding fast through the trees, up hills, down canyons... then you get to the top of a viewpoint, kill the engine, and turns from crazy adrenaline trip to a peaceful calm moment with the flip of a switch. I love that I can hop on my bike and ride up some hills a mile from my house and be miles from civilization and totally secluded, in just minutes. <br />This evening I took my camera bag, hopeful for a nice sunset, and it was beautiful! After riding through a bunch of crusty, chunky, icy snow I stopped at frozen Kingsley Reservoir and got a decent view of Mt. Hood's west facing side with some sunlight on it. <br />Mt. Hood and sunset, check out the wind blowing snow off the peak! Brrrrr! <br /> <img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/_MG_8348_mthood_sunset.jpg"/><br /><br />And a snapshot of my bike, camera, and frozen Kingsley reservoir with Mt Hood- <br /><img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/IMG_6374_dirtbike_kingsley.jpg"/>blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12930627.post-66218832178613647542010-02-15T00:16:00.000-08:002010-02-15T00:17:01.727-08:00Curious fish in Sea of Cortez, Mexico<img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/_MG_6372_fish.jpg"/>blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12930627.post-41693514065622155512010-02-11T14:16:00.000-08:002010-02-11T14:20:09.542-08:00another Guinea Fowl Puffer photo!I can't get over how cute these guys are!<br /><img src="http://www.blainefranger.com/blog/uploaded_images/_MG_6254_guineafowlpuffer.jpg"/>blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12982096442057588348noreply@blogger.com2