Spinning Electrons

I am a bit behind in updating this blog with the photos I have been taking. This is a bit of a catch-up post.

I spent Memorial weekend visiting the Olympic Peninsula, WA. Points of interests were Ruby Beach, Rialto Beach, Hoh rainforest (140 to 170 inches of rain a year!), and the Hurricane Ridge. Photos are on flickr.

Three quick weekend outings to the Silver Falls state park (photos), Mt Angle Abbey (photos), and to the Tigard Balloon Festival (photos).

The 4th July weekend was spent at the Oregon Caves and at the Lava Beds, CA. Unfortunately despite my best efforts none of the cave-type photos worked out. Instead you can see my photos from the Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge, and from the Fair in Tulelake, CA where they had 4x4s roughing it through a mud track competition before the inevitable firework display.

A few more sets of photos posted to flickr:

1. Mt Table hike
   
2. Vista House hike
   
3. Whippet Racing – dogs (very small, very close to the ground, very fast… ultimate test for high-speed focusing!)
   
4. Rowena Creek – wildflowers
   
5. Cape Horn – wildflowers
   

Here’s a batch of photo collections I have recently uploaded to Flickr:

1. Sauvie Island (bird photos)
   
2. Ridgefield (more bird photos)
   
3. Second Ridgefield outing (more birds)
   
4. Trip to Washington D.C.
   
5. A view of Mt Hood taken from the air with an iPhone
   
6. An outing in the Washington Park in Portland, OR
   

My photo won 3rd place out of 14 in an informal photography mini-contest with the theme “urban decay” :

Here are the panoramas of Crater Lake and of Sheep Rock.