Paul Cory

A Contemplation of Morning Light Natural Garden Sitting Area, Portland Japanese Garden . Square, black and-white photograph. A shaft of light comes in from a slit under the roof at the top left and runs diagonally down through the image, broadening as it goes, exiting the right edge of the frame at the just below the mid-line of of the composition The beam highlights the texture of the back wall of the structure. At the top of the image, one can make out the wooden roof support beams in the shadows. There is also a window in the wall on the left. Light from that illuminates the wooden bench and floor.

A Contemplation of Morning Light

Natural Garden Sitting Area, Portland Japanese Garden .

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Autumn Red, Portland Japanese Garden Vertical color photograph: a red, yellow and black winged seed pod just above and to the left of the image center, and the surrounding blazing red and yellow leaves, is the focal point of the image. It is surrounded in the foreground by more red leaves, though some still have a hint of green, and tips of tree branches. The background is a blur of more autumn red foliage and some green foliage that hasn't yet surrendered to the changing of the seasons. Fall colors are spreading through the Portland Japanese Garden . It hasn't reach peak yet, but the progress of the season is becoming more and more visible.

Autumn Red, Portland Japanese Garden

Fall colors are spreading through the Portland Japanese Garden . It hasn't reach peak yet, but the progress of the season is becoming more and more visible.

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Sunset at the End of the Creek Shot on the Oregon Coast just north of Yaquina Head, where a rocky creek runs across the beach and directly into the Pacific Ocean. Vertical color photograph: the creek starts at the bottom of the frame, and runs to the ocean, curving gently to the viewer's left and then more sharply to the right before reaching the tide line. The water is clear. There are rocks, including a small boulder about a third of the way up front the image bottom and on the right, scattered in the creek bed, providing the dominant foreground interest. The rocks Peter out as the creek makes its leftward turn about 2/3s of the way up the frame. The final rightward sweep of the creek leads the eye to the sun setting in a blaze of orange over the Pacific Ocean, rays reaching out across the sea to touch the waves and the beach. The sun is reflected in the water at the tide line. The ocean waves are gentle. Above the sun are two thin lines of clouds parallel to the horizon. Above them are some wispy, horsetail clouds, as the sky transitions from orange to blue.

Sunset at the End of the Creek

Shot on the Oregon Coast just north of Yaquina Head, where a rocky creek runs across the beach and directly into the Pacific Ocean.

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A cloudless October pre-sunrise scene with Mount Hood, from the Jonsrud Viewpoint in Sandy, OR. Horizontal color photograph. Layers of tree covered hills and mountains rise from the Sandy valley in the foreground. At the horizon line, about 1/3 the way up the frame, a freshly snow-covered Mount Hood rears above the surrounding mountains. Behind its conical form, the sky starts orange at the horizon, then transitions to yellow and then to white and finally blue. You can see a faint shadow in the sky to the left of the mountain peak: it's cast by the mountain itself, as the sun is still below the horizon. In the upper right corner, a line of geese are flying towards Mount Hood.

Just Before Sunrise, Mount Hood

A cloudless October pre-sunrise scene with Mount Hood, from the Jonsrud Viewpoint in Sandy, OR.

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Sun Rays Cutting Through Morning Fog, Sandy River, OR Vertical black-and-shite photograph: Perspective is looking down into the valley from a high point. Tall evergreens cut the sunlight into sharp rays that filter through the morning fog along the Sandy River. The tree are in the upper right of the composition, and the beams come diagonally down into the frame, extending to the bottom. Following the sun rays take your eyes down into brightly lit billowy clouds low over the forest and river. Along the bottom part of the image, the half lit Sandy River comes in the from the center of the frame, moving up and then curving to the viewer's left to exit the frame in shadow about 1/3 of the way up. The rest of the frame is forest, softened by the morning mist, even where the sun isn't highlighting it. Taken from Jonsrud Point in Sandy Oregon, which allows you to look across the Sandy River Valley to Mount Hood. The weather forecast hinted at the possibility of a stunning sunrise, but the promised bits of cloud did not appear anywhere near the right part of the sky. Fortunately, fog and mist along the river provided some interesting scenes.

Sun Rays Cutting Through Morning Fog, Sandy River, OR

Taken from Jonsrud Point in Sandy Oregon, which allows you to look across the Sandy River Valley to Mount Hood.

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Snow on the Black Rock Staircase Dee Wright Observatory, Oregon Vertical black-and-white photograph: stairs carved out of black rock ascend a hill, curving right and then left as they head for the round building made from the surrounding ancient lava field. Snow is falling, visible as it streaks in front of the rock. Snow has started accumulating on the rocks and the more exposed upper stairs. The sky is light gray, with streaks from the falling snow.

Snow on the Black Rock Staircase

Dee Wright Observatory, Oregon

Click through and you can see the flying snow.

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Horizontal color photo: Maple leafs changing color in the Portland Japanese Garden in Portland Oregon. The leaves are wet from a light rain that just ended. In the lover left corner of the frame, a large leaf that has completely changed to red anchors the composition. Moving up, diagonally through the frame, you com to another, smaller leaf, 80% of the transition from green to red, atop several other leaves that are just into the transformation, with red moving up from the tips of the leaves but transitioning to green about 1/3 of the way up.

The Changes of Autumn

Soon, the Portland Japanese Garden should be ablaze with autumn colors. This is a little preview from the end of September.

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Vertical black-and-white photograph: a building in the Portland Japanese garden is framed but he surround plants. Raindrops glisten on on the leaves of the plants. The buildings peaked roof, wooden sign with Japanese characters and the cedar shingled roof of the porch in the upper half of the image is the focal point of the image.

Rainy Day Monochrome, Portland Japanese Garden

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A double crested cormorant takes off from small cove off Yaquina Bay. Horizontal color photograph: the cormorant is moving right to left across the frame. It's launching itself from the water, leaving a trail of splashes behind as it beats its wings to get airborne. The birds feet are still less than a foot above the water, with the the body at a slight upward title and the wings almost at the end of the downstroke. The cormorant has black feathers and yellow bill.The surface of the water is rippled with hundreds of tiny wavelets. Yaquina Bay Estuary Trail Newport, Oregon.

Look at the Time! Gotta Fly!

A double crested cormorants takes off from small cove off Yaquina Bay.

Yaquina Bay Estuary Trail Newport, Oregon.

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A California Sea Lion appears to give me side eye while hunting food in the surf at Cobble Beach in the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area on the Oregon Coast. Horizontal color photograph: the top half of the spotted grey and white head of the sea lion is visible above the foam strewn, blue-green water. In the background, the next wave crashed into the frame full of white foam and flying water droplets.

A California Sea Lion appears to give me side eye while hunting food in the surf at Cobble Beach in the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area on the Oregon Coast.

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Waves After Sunset Gentle ocean waves and the post sunset sky. Shot on the Oregon Coast just north of Yaquina Head. Horizontal color photograph: a wavelet coming from the left corner of the image, with the leading edge starting about 1/3 of the way in from that corner, extends diagonally back into the frame , leading the eye to where it intersects the with low incoming waves just above the mid-point of the frame, and about 1/3 of the way in from the right side. Above the ocean, a think layer of orange-yellow clouds spans the horizon. Smaller streaks and splashes of pink clouds stand out again the blue skies above.

Waves After Sunset

Gentle ocean waves and the post sunset sky. Shot on the Oregon Coast just north of Yaquina Head.

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Yaquina Head Lighthouse After Sunset Horizontal color photograph. The Yaquina Head Lighthouse stands against the post-sunset glow. In the foreground, motion blurred by the long exposure, gentle wavelets approach the coast. In the mid image, Yaquida head and the sea stacks just off its point rear out of the ocean, coming into the frame from the left. About a 1/3 of the way into the image, there is a tree, and then the keeps quarters, and then the Lighthouse standing tall, with its beacon lit. The sky beyond and above is warm orange that transitions to a more yellow orange as it you look towards the top of the frame. If you click through and look closely, you'll see shadowy streaks in the sky. Those are trails of the last birds flying to the sea stacks to rest for the night - an effect of the long shutter speed required to capture the failing light.

Yaquina Head Lighthouse After Sunset

If you click through, you'll see the shadow trails of the last birds flying home for the night - an effect of the long shutter speed.

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UCM = Unintentional Camera Movement.

Everything's In Motion While I've not quit got the hang of intentional camera movement imagery (ICM), I occasionally manage to get something interesting with unintentional camera movement (UCM). In this case, I misjudged how far the waves were still coming up the beach while shooting the post sunset sky, and the water pulling the sand from around the tripod legs caused it to sink during the shot. Color photograph: wavelets on a dark sandy shore lead the eye from the lower left corner of the image diagonally into the frame. Near the mid frame they interest with a darker area of wallets and above that, the vibration oranges transitioning to purples and then blues in the post-sunset sky. The ghosting and blurs caused but eh combine slow shutter speed and camera movement soften the image, giving it a more impressionistic feel. Shot on the Oregon Coast just north of Yaquina Head.

Everything's In Motion

Artistic UCM - I misjudged how far the waves were coming up the beach, and the water caused the tripod to sink during the shot.

Shot on the Oregon Coast just north of Yaquina Head.

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A female Harlequin Duck swims over a wave as it preps for its next dive in cove of Cobble Beach in the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area on the Oregon Coast. Horizontal color photograph. The duck is small, with dark brow-black feathers. It has two white spots on its head above and below the eye, and a third spot on the back of the head. It's bill is black with a white tip.It's moving from right-to-left across the image, as you can tell by the wake it's leaving.

A female Harlequin Duck swims over a wave as it preps for its next dive in cove of Cobble Beach in the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area on the Oregon Coast.

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A classic red rose from the Portland International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park in Portland, OR. Vertical color photograph: a fully bloomed red rose sits atop it stem near the top center of the frame. It is surrounded by green, broken up up by splashes of red where other roses bloom in the center and bottom left of the frame. Near the bottom of the featured rose's stalk, another red rose , on the backside of the stalk, is preparing to reach full bloom.

A classic red rose from the Portland International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park in Portland, OR.

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Portland International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park in Portland, OR. In the foreground, on the right side of the image is a pink rose with a yellow center in full bloom. Behind it, a little up and to the left, is a similarly colored rose a day or two from reaching full bloom. The two colorful flowers are surround by the dark greens of rose leaves.

Another from the Portland International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park in Portland, OR. So many roses...

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Thank you!

Portland International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park in Portland, OR. Horizontal color photograph: a large, fully opened yellow and pink rose dominates the foreground on the left side of the composition, just above the frame midline and about 1/3 of the way from the left edge of the image. To its right, int he background, similar blooms are visible. Beyond and that, and more towards frame center and nearer the top of the image,scattered out of focus, pink roses dot the background. Everywhere is in the phot is the dark green of rose leaves.

Another from the Portland International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park in Portland, OR.

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The Portland International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park in Portland, OR. If you're a rose or flower lover, you should see and smell this place. Vertical color photograph: A large peach-and-pink rose in full bloom dominatinates the foreground of the image. It is the left center of the frame. Behind it, above it, and to the right of it is an orange-yellow bloom that is still unfurling. And behind that, even further to the right an out-of-focus is a pink rose in full bloom. The flowers are surrounded by dark green leaves.

The Portland International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park in Portland, OR. If you're a rose or flower lover, you should see this place.

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Hardy Fuchsia flowers, Portland International Rose Test Garden, Washington Park, Portland, Oregon. Vertical color photograph: A pair of red Hardy Fuchsia blooms, one atop the other. Their stems parallel as they come out from the plant along the left side of the image, then bend at almost a 90 degree angle just before the base of the flowers. The lower flower is opened, revealing the interior set of bluer petals and the descending stamen. It is echoed to the left, in the background, by another opened flower. The top flower is still closed. The background is shades of green from dark to light, with some areas of red from more flowers behind the background bloom.

The Main Feature and the Coming Attraction

Hardy Fuchsia flowers, Portland International Rose Test Garden, Washington Park, Portland, Oregon.

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Hardy Fuchsia, Portland International Rose Test Garden, Washington Park, Portland, OR. Click through to spot the teensy-tiny spider on patrol. Square color photograph. A cluster of hardy fuchsia flowers hang downwards against a sea of green with splashes of red from other flowers in the background. The flowers have red petals that open like helicopter blades to disclose blue-purple petals wrapped around long red stamen. A tiny spider crawls along the lead flower.

Hardy Fuchsia, Portland International Rose Test Garden, Washington Park, Portland, OR. Click through to spot the teensy-tiny spider on patrol.

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No, Fox "News", which was airing deceptive reports about Portland and mixing in footage from events several years ago to imply they were happening today.

A squadron of pelicans flies home over of the setting sun along the Oregon Coast just north of Yaquina Head. Horizontal color photograph : along the bottom 1/6th of the image is rippled surface of the Pacific Ocean; the dark blue waters have orange tinted highlights from the setting sun. About a third of the way in from the right side of the image, the a sliver of the orange sun is still visible as it drops below the horizon. Above that is some clear orange sky, and then a band of thin clouds stretches across the scene. Along the top of that bank, at about the vertical midpoint of the image, a long squadron of pelicans (flying left-to-right) is silhouetted against the sunset sky as it flies home for the evening. The lead pelican is about a sixth of the way in from the right side of the image, and the last pelican in the scene is close to the left side of the frame. Above the pelicans are two more thin bands of high altitude clouds, shining orange. The lower band extends two thirds of the way across the screen. The upper band runs the width of the photo.

Sunset Pelican Patrol

A squadron of pelicans flies home over of the setting sun along the Oregon Coast just north of Yaquina Head.

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Because if they dump it out all at once, the media will focus on it for about a day, and then forget about it. Also, if they dump it out all at once, who knows what the media will focus on? This way, they both keep the story in the headlines and focus media attention where they want it.

A California Sea Lion squints at me while its fellow continues the pursuit of food through the waters in the cove of Cobble Beach in the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area on the Oregon Coast. Vertical color photograph. A light gray spotted sea lion pops its head out of a wave churned sea of sea foam with occasional breaks of water to squint towards shore. The right eye is closed, while the left eye is open. You can sea bits of foam caught on its whiskers In the background, just in front of a sea stack, a second, darker sea lion's head is visible above the foam as it moves from right-to-left across the image.

A California Sea Lion squints at me while its fellow continues to hunt through the waters in the cove of Cobble Beach in the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area on the Oregon Coast.

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A Western Gull catches and consumes a crab (ideally an invasive European Green Crab but I can't be sure) along the Yaquina Bay Estuary Trail Newport, Oregon. Color photograph: The gull is oriented left-to-right across the frame. It's leaning over and has grabbed the green crab by its right claw and is yanking it out of the mud along the waterline. The crab has its left claw up as it futilely attempts to resist its fate. The shore along the left side of the image is littered with seaweed stranded by the outgoing tide. Other tidal debris covers is scattered along the beach on the right side of the image.

A Western Gull consumes a crab along the Yaquina Bay Estuary Trail Newport, Oregon. Color photograph: The gull is oriented right-to-left across the frame. It's leaning over and is tossing the body of the green crab it caught in the previous frame to position it for swallowing. There are a couple of strands of seaweed trailing from the crab's legs as it's suspended in mid-air. The gull had reduced the crab to component parts - a claw is visible on the ground just in front of the gull's head - by shaking the crab viciously until it ripped apart. The shore along the left side of the image is littered with seaweed stranded by the outgoing tide. Other tidal debris covers is scattered along the beach on the right side of the image.

A Western Gull swallows the legs and body of a crab along the Yaquina Bay Estuary Trail Newport, Oregon. Color photograph: The gull is oriented right-to-left across the frame. It's leaning overweigh it mouth wide open as prepares to swallow the body of the green crab it caught in a previous frame. The crab's legs are sticking out of the gull's throat - for the moment. The gull had reduced the crab to component parts - a claw is visible on the ground just in front of the gull's head - by shaking the crab viciously until it ripped apart. The shore along the left side of the image is littered with seaweed stranded by the outgoing tide. Other tidal debris covers is scattered along the beach on the right side of the image.

Crab Brunch

A Western Gull catches and consumes a crab (ideally an invasive European Green Crab but I can't be sure) along the Yaquina Bay Estuary Trail Newport, Oregon.

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A Pacific Harbor Seal pauses to disapprove of me as it hunts off Cobble Beach in the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area. Color photograph, the head of the seal is just above the water - the body is submerged. The water is blue, rippled and with many spots of froth from the wave action. The seal has a white fur body, with dark fur on top of its head and almost black eyes.

Really? That Shirt with Those Pants?

A Pacific Harbor Seal pauses to disapprove of me as it hunts off Cobble Beach in the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area.

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The lower part of Starvation Creek Falls in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. Vertical color photograph. The creek enter the frame near the upper right corner of the image, appearing from behind a small rock formation. It then curves gracefully to the right and then back to the left as it charges out of the lower left corner of the frame on its way to the Columbia River below. A hug fallen tree enters the frame from the upper left corner of the image and extends diagonally down from the moss-covered cliff almost 5/6 of the way cross the image to where it's grounded in the creek. Just under it along the left side of the frame, a branch of the creek vaults another fallen log and then joins another split of rushing water to cascade over a small boulder and out of the left side of the image just above the midline. The rocks and boulders of the creek are black and grey and reddish brown, and some have bits of moss.

The Winding Way to the River

The lower part of Starvation Creek Falls in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon.

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Green Diver Down!

A katydid goes diving in a rose in the Portland International Rose Test Gard in Washington Park in Portland, Oregon.

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