Emerald Bay Photography News and Updates

As I had promised yesterday, the PDF of that story I wrote and shot for Log Home Design Ideas Magazine is now resized to something a bit more sane.

Click on the small versions below to see the full-size jpegs (at 72dpi):












Note: While LHDI did a bang-up job on the layout - thanks, Dave! - the original story was quite a bit longer and more detailed. Hence, if you actually go ahead and read it, and it ends up sounding a bit cut up, then that's why.

Addendum: It's always wildly interesting to me just how and why photo editors choose the images they do. I personally had some real favorites from shooting this stunning home that didn't make it into the final article. If anybody is interested to check out the rest of the shots, they can mosey on over here and here.

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I love surprises. Especially when they're ... uhmm ... pleasant.

Working with national magazines who have a 12-14 months leadtime on an assignment or article, you sometimes loose track of exactly who is going to publish what, where and when. Especially when they've already paid you for it long ago too.

So it was that only a few days ago I remembered that the feature I had written and shot for Log Home Design magazine last year was going to run in this June issue.

And upon checking the mag out online - looky here! - I was surprised to find that one of my shots had actually made the cover! Weeee ...



Alas, the swift publishing pace of the mag has already pushed the magazine off the shelves at B&N in Bend and replaced it with the July/August issue. Luckily, the kind photo editor at LHD sent me a huge PDF of the article, so once I have that resized, I'll post it here for people to check out.

Cool though. A milestone for sure.

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This coming Friday & Saturday is going to be FUN.

I'm one of 30 photographers who will be descending on Bend and surrounding areas that day for a special Bend Living project.

The goal is to capture the soul of the community, and the best photography will be published in a lenghty portfolio in the Novembere/December edition of the magazine. My assignment will be to cover downtown Bend.

The best part though: the proceeds of the possible spin-offs - a coffee-table style book, calendar and photo exhibit - are all going to a local charity, the Bethlehem Inn homeless shelter in Bend.

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This is the season in Central Oregon where one can get outdoors and take on pretty much any sport that trips one fancy. Thanks to the fantastic snowlevels this past winter, the rivers are raging right now, and rafting the Deschutes River can turn into some serious fun.

A couple of weeks ago, I went on a little photo excursion with fellow photographer Stuart Gibson and we amused ourselves by doing some "raft-by" shooting when two rafting groups from the COCC floated by.

Here are some of the shots (the entire gallery can be found here):

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Ahhhh ... SUMMER.

Yes, it's finally here. With 95+ temps and glorious thunder-and-lightning storms every evening. Heaven. (The fact that we still shovelled snow in Central Oregon no less than 4 weeks ago is *almost* forgotten already ...).

So during our 6th Bend Slideluck Potshow last night, this photo was taken from the porch of our host house:



And somewhere in the back of my mind I could hear Judy Garland singing ...

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