creativeLive

There is a new free live classroom website that should be an excellent resource for creative subjects like photography, painting, imaging and web software, design and video - some of my favorite things! Take a look at the introduction video on Chase Jarvis' blog. The live classroom website is at creativelive.com.

George Lepp at the NPPNW Meeting

Today was the day for the spring meeting of the Nature Photographers of the Pacific Northwest (NPPNW). George Lepp was the invited speaker and gave some very informative and enjoyable talks. The subjects included panoramas, HDR, time-lapse movies, and extended depth of field. He also demonstrated some of his "gigapan" images with amazing resolution. His website is definitely worth a look - www.georgelepp.com.

Image Odysseys - a new blog

Image Odysseys is my new blog for discovering the beauty of Oregon through paintings and photography. Image Odysseys will feature very scenic, diverse sections of Oregon. First up of the odysseys will be the southern coast of Oregon, with its haystack rocks and rugged Pacific coastline. Future journeys will highlight areas like the Columbia River Gorge, the volcanic Cascades, the High Desert, the rocky Wallowa Mountains and many others.

Stop by and join in the adventures.

Sweet Creek

Here are a couple of photos from a hike yesterday along Sweet Creek near Florence, OR. The weather was great, there was plenty of water in the stream and wildflowers were abundant - it was a great day.

There are also some photos of whitewater kayakers paddling the creek on my Flickr photostream.

(This one was taken with the ISO lowered and
the F-stop raised to feather the water a bit.)

New Flickr Photostream

I have a brand new Flickr Photostream - http://www.flickr.com/photos/robrrobinson/ .

The first set of photos is from a recent trip to Cape Lookout and Cape Kiwanda on the Oregon Coast. Below is one of the photos. There will be many more photos in the stream soon.

Cape Kiwanda, looking toward Haystack Rock in the distance.

Springing to Life

Sunny and 70 today; this willow is "springing" to life.

Mark Allison and Friends

There is a good exhibit at Linn Benton Community College until April 16. There are watercolor and acrylic paintings by Mark Allison, Bill Shumway and Bruce Tucker. A reception and gallery talk are on April 7 from 12 - 1 pm. The exhibit is in the North Santiam Hall Gallery.