BSHAPIRO PHOTOGRAPHY

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

CATCHING UP - August, 2013

Didn't do a lot of shooting in August. But here are a few images I was happy with, including the first two, which I took outside of our house. I call them "drizzle catchers."

Plymouth PLanter – 8.24.2013

Goat Farm – 8.24.2013

Happiness is being in H – 8.24.2013

CATCHING UP- July, 2013

7.8.2013

My wife plants flowers and flowering bushes all around us. I spent an hour or so chronicling them.

This one stands out.

Fan Study-7.7.2013

For some reason, I was taken by the standing fan. It reminded me of Marcel Duchamp.

Seattle Ready-Mades - 7.12.2013

The above were taken at a somewhat well-known location in Seattle. I have many more,

but these seem to stand out on their own. I call them "ready-mades," in the spirit of Dada.

Mt. Angel – 7.21.2013

Newport Aquarium – 7.26.2013

(single exposure)

Above: Newport Harbor – 2.26.2013

Sunday, June 15, 2014

CATCHING UP – June, 2013

Cloud Studies – 6.2013

Irises – 6.6.13

Dog meets Coon – 6.2013

Each late spring/early summer my wife foster baby raccoons that have lost their mothers or have otherwise been abandoned. She works with the American Wildlife organization out of Mollala, Oregon. She had 5 babies when this was taken, outside. Otis, boy dog, could not quite get over the little bandit.

CATCHING UP – May, 2013

Posting photos on Facebook is no substitute for posting them here, on the dedicated blog. I have a lot of catching up to do... starting here, with May, 2013

Barbie & Ken at the Beach

A young girl was playing with these. I didn't move them from where they were positioned. Taft Beach, in Lincoln City, Oregon is not a nude beach, by the way.

Neskowin Beach, Oregon – 5.26.13

2 views, looking West/Northwest from behind our house – 5.24.13

I usually shoot clouds in monotone, but I like the shadows from the clouds on the ground and the palette on the lower image.

Evans Valley – 5.17.13

Moss Figure, Silverton Reservoir – 5.25.13

Cloud Studies – 5.24.13

Thursday, April 4, 2013

SILVER CREEK

These two images were taken on a cold January 18, 2013 in Coolidge-McLean Park in Silverton. To me, they cannot help but recall some of the photographs of June Drake that I have been exposed to. Mr. Drake was a local commercial photographer in the early 20th century. He took portraits, photographs of events in town and what I imagine were his personal images, of Silver Creek and, most importantly, the area that was to become Silver Falls State Park. It was his photography that singularly helped sell the idea of the park to the state. With myriad trails and ten dramatically different waterfalls, it is the largest state park in Oregon. Silver Creek is fed by those falls...

A Mild Winter

We had a very mild winter here in the Mid-Willamette Valley. Not much more than a dusting of snow and a week or so of really bad cold. We did experience something I never did before, which is a phenomenon called "frozen fog." The two black and white images of Silver Creek show the effect on the trees...