Just a joke

Winter dreams

Just something to soften the dread of winter

Christmas lights and light parades

Trucks and ship with bright lights - what else is needed for holiday spirit?

Autumn evening

A few more additions to a previous post:

 One magic evening in magic city

 Sorry for a similar shot, just can't pick between these two.

Leaf absract

Canna lily is beautiful and exotic looking plant, but place the sun behind its leaves and use a long focal lens - and magic happens.

Oregon Coast

Freakishly big rock:

Freakishly steep drop-off:

Sea Lions Cave (yes, freakishly big):

One of the most picturesque lighthouses in the world:

Just rocks:

Sand dunes:

Rocks and birds:

Wave action:

More rocks:

Shore walk

A few shots from recent walk on the shore, near Ogden Point.

Thought these two below had some dreamy quality about them:

Whales and other mostly swimming things

Little report from a nice ocean trip over the weekend.

First, some views:

At some point this thing swam by us before taking off and flying away:

Then pod of killer whales came to look if there was anything edible on our boat:

These are resident orcas, mostly eating salmon. Now, when transient orcas are in town, they take these guys right off the rocks:

That would a photo to take! Well, no such luck. Instead we found this grey whale swimming right near the shore. Residents of this house can do whale watching right from their windows:

Thing is a bit lazy, that was all it showed us. As a consolation, bald eagle came closer and let me take a shot: