This is Junction City, Oregon, a city in name only. (Click here to view the interactive picture in a new tab. When it opens, click and drag to look around.) This spherical picture was my entry for the “Cities” theme of the World Wide Panorama in 2024. Junction City is a very small town; its…
This is sunset on the Waikiki beach on Christmas day, 2008. (Click here to view the interactive picture in a new tab. When it opens, click and drag to look around.) This picture was taken during a family vacation but never processed. Our family had traveled to Oahu for a Christmas break vacation, and I…
This is the Independence Amphitheater in Independence, Oregon. It’s part of an effort by the town to transform itself from a small historical town into a vibrant destination for other communities. (Click here to view the interactive picture in a new tab. When it opens, click and drag to look around.) This spherical picture was…
This was taken in the McDonald Research Forest. (Click here to view the interactive picture in a new tab. When it opens, click and drag to look around.) This panorama is one of my entries for the World Wide Panorama “20 Years” project, and is a repeat of one take almost seven years ago at…
An earlier post presented the idea of “Local Wonder” as a starting point for a sort of vision for my photography. In that case, the focus was on looking closely at things to see their wonderful aspects. In addition to giving a focus for some photography, the hope is that it could also teach me…
This is the Neskowin Ghost Forest, a grove of trees that was buried in sand around 2000 years ago. (Click here to view the interactive picture in a new tab. When it opens, click and drag to look around.) Although many reports claim that these trees were buried in an earthquake, the best consensus is…
This is the rose garden in a local park at mid-morning as the sun is just starting to illuminate it. (Click here to view the interactive picture in a new tab. When it opens, click and drag to look around.) Taken at the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere, new growth is just starting….
This is an updated version of a previous post of the interior of United Presbyterian Church in Albany, Oregon.
This is a picture from a recently posted 360 photo of Majestic Falls. The original picture was for one of my World Wide Panorama projects, and talked about the waterfall in general. I used a different picture of this same waterfall to discuss the idea of qualia; that one was just a normal photograph. The…
When photographs are printed and hung on a wall, they often have a frame and a matte. Sometimes though, photographers, like other visual artists, choose to display their pictures without a frame – so-called “frameless” mounting. The picture here is an example of that. This example does have a solid side, but sometimes frameless mounts…