Day 85: Statue/Heather

Today's challenge found me back along the river, without Sammy. There is a huge statue along the trail that I always thought was Pocohantas. It turns out she is actually Ilchee, or Moon Woman, daughter of Chief Comcomly who was a friend of Lewis and Clark. Though I have seen this statue many times, I am always impressed with it-especially the detail and how peaceful she looks gazing out at the Columbia River.

Ilchee's story can be found here.

f4.2, Exp. 1/400, 38mm

Day 83: Bench/Heather

For today's challenge, Sammy and I headed back down to the waterfront. There are several benches along the walking trail and I took pictures of a few of them as the lighting was different at each one. Today turned out to be absolutely gorgeous and this picture seemed to best reflect that it was not raining. I also like that this one is not f4.5, Exp 1/60 as that seems to be a trend for me lately!

f10, Exp. 1/200, 44mm

Day 68: Fountain/Heather

There are a ton of fountains in Portland. I probably could have spent hours walking around taking photographs of them all. But I have a hectic couple of weeks coming up and wanted to spend time today just relaxing. So I decided to shoot a fountain closer to home.

There is a popular walking trail along the Columbia River on the Vancouver side. I knew this water fountain was there from when I used that trail to try to take my horizon photo. (I actually got a really cool shot of the fountain that day). I decided to take Sammy with me. Charlie got to go on a lot of "bye byes in the car" when he was sick in July and Sammy didn't get to go. I decided he needed a "bye bye" of his own. I also joined a Meetup group for single dog lovers and wanted to get him out with people as I am considering taking him to an event on Friday.

I had a hard time deciding on my picture for today. I have several that show more of the fountain, but chose this one because I managed to press the button to turn on the flow of water, not get my finger in the shot, take the shot with one hand, keep hold of Sammy and have the shot turn out.

f8, Exp. 1/60, 18mm

Day 46: Horizon/Heather

This was one of those days when I knew I was going to hate everything I took. And I was right-at least as far as the theme goes. I did get a couple of cool shots of a water fountain, a bench, and the rocks and water and a few other non-horizon things.

My vision of the horizon is where the sky meets the ocean-a view I don't have from here. So in an effort to improvise, on my way home from volunteering, I stopped at a walking trail along the Columbia River. My camera has to have something to focus on and with a slight haze in the air thanks to a wildfire, I couldn't quite capture what I was going for. This certainly isn't the best of the bunch but is the one I feel best captures the theme. The two blurs in the forefront are trees.

f11, Exp. 1/800, 300mm