Category: Photography

A need for a hike spurred us up the north Steens Loop road, which, in mid-June, was not yet open to the summit. Instead, at Fish Lake, a grader blocked the road entirely and we had to go from there on foot. We hiked about eight miles into and up a place where spring has [...]

Dinner was PB&J David smeared together using the hood of the ‘bru as a table at deepest dusk in Long Hollow. Long Hollow, an east-west passway through to the Alvord–the eastern, desert side of the Steens–in the narrow notch between Steens and Pueblo Mountains, takes all of the loneliness of the Alvord, all the vastness [...]

Post-sunset Alvord Desert Full Sail Amber Ale 75 degrees (air) View more beautiful than many people have ever seen Emptiness, Solitude Alvord Hot Springs 104 degrees (water) Mineral smell Playa, mountains Mr. Pencil Bleached boards around tub A rolled up towel for a pillow Laying back and staring at sky

I have long ignored the dirt road leading off up and west from Alvord Hot Springs, heading up the steep, steep eastern ascent of Steens Mountain. I assumed it went nowhere; most of the little spurs don’t around there. On crowded days in the Alvord, this is where people camp (by “crowded” I mean: when [...]

It is difficult to explain the scale and peculiarity of the Catlow Valley. It’s as if everything is stretched out wider and thinner here in this mysterious part of southeastern Oregon. Distances between things are far, far, as if the land were inflated beneath you like a balloon. Such strange places, with such vastness. Catlow [...]

One dusty day about two years ago, I, solo, in the Catlow Valley, after suffering misdirected starts and inaccurate maps, found the ghost town of Blitzen, Ore. You can see photos from that endeavor here. This time I brought David. This time at sundown. This time someone had graded the mud-rutted road enough that it [...]

Lakeview, Ore., named for its vantage over “formerly larger” Goose Lake (now shorelined some 15 miles from the town), is the county seat of the eponymous Lake County in south central Oregon. With about 2700 folks, it’s a veritable bustling metropolis, when considered against the vastness of Lake County–fully a third of the county’s population [...]

Fifteen panicky minutes at late twilight last Saturday fielded me some decent streaky photos of spinny amusement park rides at this year’s Rose Festival. Half of the photos are still in the camera. More at Flickr.

whirly feet Originally uploaded by lyzadanger Mine was, inexplicably, or ironically, one of my feet. I took it in San Diego where I was attending O’Reilly’s ETech conference in 2005. Flickr was quite the topic of conversation. This was back in the era where your account/profile had to be approved before you could actually post [...]

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My library unfurled in a way that is technically impossible. But I wanted an image that suggested what it was like to be in the room, which this does fairly well.