BSHAPIRO PHOTOGRAPHY

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

CATCHING UP – September, 2013

Wonky Farm – 9.19.2013

This is looking west by northwest from the poultry penthouse and quack house. I chose this because of the wide-angle distortion, looking like the background of some Thomas Hart Benton painting.

"Ballad of the Jealous Lover" Thomas Hart Benton

Hate Camper – 9.25.2013

This is the camper back of a pickup truck that is often parked in a shopping plaza parking lot on Lancaster Drive in Salem, Oregon. Someone told me the owner is homeless. Clearly, there is a reason.

To borrow a phrase from that Great American, Kinky Friedman, the owner may sleep in the truck, but he is living out where the buses don't run.

Matthew McDaniel, Independence, Oregon – 9.7.2013

I met Mr. McDaniel just outside the city park in Independence. We got to talking and he told me he rode a horse across the country, ending up in Manhattan. Said he's done it twice. He heads up the Akha Heritage Foundation. He may be the only member of the Foundation for all I know. He did have an interesting story about the police escort he got from New Jersey...

What the stream said – 9.7.2013

Independence, Oregon

Women in windows – 9.7.2013

Independence, Oregon

The Taylor's Fountain – 9.7.2013

I took this through a window next to the locked and padlocked door. Sadly, there won't be any more

ice cream sodas served at the counter...

Independence, Oregon – 9.7.2013

murciélago muerto-9.9.2013

My wife knows and loves me, which is why she brought a bat carcass home from a morning run. These are the same photos. The bottom one has been seriously manipulated in PhotoShop.

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...