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It’s a tradition for me to photograph these sweet girls when I’m in Lakeview for a summer visit. Kamaryn moves from cute kid to beautiful young woman in front of my lens, while Kaley remains 44 pounds of pure Pixie.
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August 28, 2010 - 10:56 am
Great shots! Oh, how I’d love to watch you work sometime!
August 28, 2010 - 11:13 am
Hi! Beautiful shots of the girls and the countryside. I am in The Dalles, hope to get some shots of the girls and their cousins. One of these days our paths will cross! Enjoy your trip!
This afternoon, I told my kids if we could just knock out our Christmas photo against a red wall I’d found out at 5 Corners, I’d buy them ice cream. And to my surprise, they complied — well, after we got past their two-headed-four-armed beast series fun. :)
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August 27, 2010 - 9:48 am
simply – beautiful.
August 27, 2010 - 11:24 am
Awesome! But why aren’t you and Carlos in it? 
August 27, 2010 - 12:00 pm
thanks, girls!
Lora, I thought of you the minute we pulled into town and I had to ask Mom for carpet cleaner for backseat Frappuccino gone awry. our tradition is alive and well!
Cameron, I was working!!! very hard. Carlos couldn’t make the trip with us, he had to work, too. in Tucson. don’t get me started.
August 29, 2010 - 12:02 am
i was going to say, where are you guys?
November 5, 2010 - 10:37 am
Wow Christine – those eyes are simply amazing. Beautiful.
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September 26, 2009 - 10:41 am
I love these photos Christine – especially the ones with the sneakers and texting! You captured him at this point in his life so well….
October 4, 2009 - 9:24 am
thank you! you mean you weren’t taken in at all by his über-cool college team?
is Lakeview High School. This morning, I caught up to my classmate Mark Beagle for coffee and my son captured us as we stood in between California Pizza Kitchen and Starbucks.
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November 25, 2008 - 4:59 am
Very nicely done, Jonathan. Your photo is fantastic.
A chip off the old block, n’est-ce pas?
November 28, 2008 - 6:39 pm
it doesn’t show up on this main page, but your avatar looks FANTASTIC if I can say so myself.
worth every sour Skittle he’s paid, Jonathan says of his part-time photo assist gig.
May 12, 2010 - 1:31 pm
Great picture of you and Mark. You both look great. Christine, how do you stay so beautiful as we all age and grow old!?? You do look great, what ever your doing keep it up. Take care and thanks so much for sharing your photos. You do great work…what an art! Talk to ya again soon hopefully.
Pairs as in Shimano. Keen. Teva. Frye. Nike. Flojos.
I’m fascinated by these trees lining isolated stretches of highway, dripping in passerby’s artfully tossed footwear. I’m a shoe girl, what more can I say?
My sister and her family live on a cattle ranch at the brink of Hell’s Canyon. We’re on our way to visit. Out here, even the cattle guards are the real deal, not the painted-on kind.
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July 9, 2008 - 1:38 pm
i love it! the photos are great — i have never witnessed anything like this before. your title is hilarious! great work.
July 9, 2008 - 4:03 pm
Very cool stuff! Thank you for the blog love Your blog rocks, I love the layout and design!
July 10, 2008 - 9:06 pm
When I was little, I was always confused by the phenomenon of dangling shoes. Normally I saw them on power lines, but no matter where they were I was always slightly amused.
Well according to wikipedia, the shoes you found potentially could have meant…. a place where illeagal drugs are sold, where a gang member had killed somebody, where somebody had celebrated a forthcoming marriage, or even where an Arab decided to show great disrespect! Or maybe the heat just got to their heads….
There is enough water in Crater Lake to give each man, woman and child on earth 700 gallons of the purest pH balanced water available to drink. (Shhh, don’t tell California!) It’s the deepest lake in the United States and the seventh deepest lake in the world and, believe it or not, most of these images are straight out of the camera — meaning no, I did not Photoshop that blue! The water is so pure, all but the shortest visible light rays (blues) are absorbed. Crater Lake is positively spectacular.
The dinner, drinks and company at the lodge wasn’t bad, either!
Guess which photo will make our Christmas card this year?
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July 8, 2008 - 11:15 pm
Christine, love the images of Crater lake series. No photoshop? Wow, the images are so sharp and vivid.
July 9, 2008 - 12:12 am
My vote for your Christmas card is the four shadows with the mysterious bunny ears above Alexis!! I can’t imagine how that same bunny followed you from our shoot in Lakeview to Crater Lake – clever little guy!
July 10, 2008 - 8:40 pm
Wow, all of those are gorgeous!
Those first two duotones are really stunning.
Do you mind me asking what lens you used to get the wide angle shots?
They seemed to have good DOF for such a wide lens.
You don’t happen to have the Sigma 30mm 1.4 do you?
July 12, 2008 - 8:45 pm
Smoking images…Nice work!
July 12, 2008 - 10:38 pm
thank you!
I don’t mind at ALL telling you the specs, I’m glad you asked! I’m especially glad that you asked what kind of LENS I’m using and and not what kind of CAMERA I have; you’ve been well taught!!!!
the image of my family in shadow along Crater Lake was shot at ISO 200, f/18 for 1/100s with my 16mm Nikkor fisheye 2.8 lens. of course, since I’m shooting a D300, the 16mm is more like a 24mm. I kept my 16mm on my camera for the whole week for two reasons: one, I didn’t want to use a zoom as we left Crater Lake and traveled through Hell’s Canyon (I’ve yet to post those photos) because it’s so dusty, I figured it might just be safer to keep a fixed lens on and not invite more dust by changing lenses every two minutes as I’ve been know to do; and two, I’ve never shot for a whole week with the 16mm and I wanted to give it a whirl. I’ve always been a wide open telephoto girl, and the experiment was to stretch myself in the other direction. I was originally given that assignment (to shoot for an entire day with a wide angle lens at f/22) by Dennis Darling, a University of Texas professor, and I revisit his assignment now and again because I feel I’ve never truly mastered it. regardless of mastery, it was fun!
of course, when it comes to people I love, I digress: the image of my son’s Lego scaling the side of my glass of shiraz was shot with the 16mm at ISO 400 f/3.2 at 1/30s. old habits die hard.
no, I don’t own a Sigma lens. all my lenses are Nikon, 2.8 or faster, and on this particular trip, I hauled them all: my 16mm, 28-70mm, 70-200mm, 105mm and (oh, I do own a non-Nikon) a Lensbaby.
the first two images are processed with Kevin Kubota’s “earth” setting in Lightroom. I’m pretty sure it’s K.K. — I have so many Lightroom presets, I can’t always keep track, but K.K. is from Bend, Oregon, so it stands to reason that he knows best how to represent blue sky and evergreens.
July 15, 2008 - 1:50 am
Christine,Excellent images, apparently you had a great time w/ your new fisheye.I too use a D300 and you have me drooling ever so slightly for the 16. I also have a Kodak full-frame so It might be double the fun.You gonna spring for a D700?? Damn Nikon’s timing!!!—-Neil
July 29, 2008 - 11:00 am
LOVE the family shadow/lake image. Print that one on a huge canvas and display prominently in your home! Beautiful work.
July 29, 2008 - 6:52 pm
hey Neil! you know, I’m a little miffed at Nikon and question their business sense. why the D700 when they could have just as easily made the D300 full-frame? I’m getting pretty tired of this horse-and-carrot game, I’ve hung in there with them for a lot of years but this makes me want to eBay the whole slew of it just on general principle. but you got me to thinking, if I got the D700, my 16mm would no longer be what I’m seeing, and I’m having fun with it! I eBayed my 28mm f/1.4 when prices started to get silly because (I rationalized) the $1500 profit was worth a few ISO stops that the newer bodies could afford. I miss the lens, but don’t regret the decision. so to answer your question, no, I’m in no hurry to jump on the D700. it looks fun, but I don’t have my 28mm anymore and fall sports are right around the corner where my 70-200 is essentially a 300 (600 with a teleconverter? whatever. it’s way fun whatever it is to photograph my kids and their sports teams.)
and when I threaten to eBay my Nikon gear, it’s not to run out and buy [completely counterintuitive] Canon. I have no intentions of getting out of frying pan just to land in the flames.
July 29, 2008 - 6:53 pm
Scott, thank you! that’s a great idea!
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