Photo Essays

Westville

Sleepy Historic Westville - guy sleeping at the wheel of a horse drawn carriage

A guy I was interviewing in Lumpkin, Georgia, told be about “Old Town”, just down the road. Since w Lumpkin seemed like the end of the road, I was a little skeptical. But I took a break from Occupy Interviews and Immigration Detention Centers, and headed south. I found Westville, literally just outside of town. [...]

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Tall Ships in Rainer

Lady Washington under sail on Columbia River

Some times on May Day I join the masses in the streets. Other times I escape the city, and wind up doing things like watching Tall Ships sail on the Columbia. Lady Washington and the Hawaiian Chieftain were visiting Rainier Oregon. I “missed” their mock canon battle, but enjoyed a sunny, quiet day watching the [...]

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Wheatland Ferry Road Trip

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This weekend I did a “shakedown” cruise of my “hybridized” bicycle – a 20 mile round trip between Keiser and Willamette Mission State Park, which is just south of the Wheatland Ferry. Pretty much in the middle of the Willamette Valley – just North of Salem. Willamette Mission State Park has several miles of bike [...]

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Wreck of the Emily G. Reed now on YouTube

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The Oregon Coast is a ship graveyard, from the New Carissa (1999) to the Beeswax Wreck (>1800′s). As a child I enjoyed visiting the wreck of the Peter Iredale, just south of the Columbia River at Ft. Stevens. (1906). So when the news reported that the wreck of the Emily G. Reed had been uncovered [...]

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Run to the Rogue 2010

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We’ve completed another R2R, in which the Siletz tribe honors our ancestors by running / walking from Siletz, Oregon to Oaks Flats on the Illinois River. This relay, in which different members of the tribe (and friends!) carry an eagle staff mile by mile for over 50 hours down the coast, commemorates the forced removal [...]

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Golden Gate Bridge

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In Feb, 2010 I spent a week in San Francisco working on a video shoot. I managed to escape for a late afternoon, and wound up walking over the Golden Gate bridge. Got to catch sunset from the bridge! Here’s some pictures – click on them to see the full image -

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The Mini Guppy

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In June I stopped at the Tillamook Air Museum, near the Oregon Coast, to take some pictures and video of the Mini-Guppy, a super-sized air cargo ship based on a  Boeing 377. (Or perhaps several Boeing 377′s ) This plane was built in the 1960′s, and flew to the mid 90′s, when it was parked [...]

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Run to the Rogue 2009

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I’m participated in the Confederated Tribes of Siletz’s 2009 Run to the Rogue, commemorating the forced “Death March” of the Rogue Indians up the coast of Oregon to Siletz in 1856. Note – the pictures of the traditional salmon bake are from another event a few weeks earlier, but we did end the even with [...]

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