Roadside Eats

Lagoon Valley / Pena Adobe Park

I need to work on my wildlife photography. The first wildlife photo I post and the main subject is dead.

Click the link below for a few more pictures.
http://picasaweb.google.com/pulloverandshoot/Jan162010LagoonValley#
The circumstances that lead to this photo fit perfectly with the blog title "pulloverandshoot". I turned off of the 80 Freeway (in error) one exit early. Driving to Lagoon Valley/Pena Adobe, without getting back on the freeway, I drove by a dead deer with three Turkey Vultures perched on it's carcass. I pulled onto the shoulder about 75' away. Only one vulture was brave enough to stay on the deer while I took pictures. Nine or ten vultures perched in a nearby oak, waiting for me to leave. They were much more patient than I was. Their dinner wasn't going anywhere, they could wait.

 

I am a sucker for a bare Oak tree. I know this would stand out more if  the entire tree had the grey overcast sky as a background. That would give the photo an ink block/rubberstamp/lithograph look (which I love), but I wanted the photo to match the somewhat surreal feeling I had when I was there. The green hillside appeared

to disappear into nothingness. Check out this photo on the link above (see it on full screen against the black background) and tell me what you think. Does this photo work on any level? All comments are welcome.

Fungi Fotos

On a wet and overcast day, in the second week of January, I was sitting at home warming my hands with an afternoon cup of coffee and waiting for photographic inspiration---and waiting. I decided to check the backyard to see if the wet weather had created any worthy photo subjects.
 I wasn’t expecting much. It’s January---there’s more rotting vegetation than new growth at this time of year. However, the backyard easily exceeded my low expectations. The lawn was riddled, littered, inundated, infested, (insert verb here), with mushrooms---toadstools---fungus---fungi, etc., in various stages of growth and decay---exciting stuff!
Click on the link to see a few of the fungi photos.
http://picasaweb.google.com/pulloverandshoot/Fungus# 
Read more for the boring details.

More Oregon

 

Okay, break over.

Click on this link ( http://picasaweb.google.com/pulloverandshoot/2009OregonPhotos# ) for more photos from my Oregon driving trip. That would be the trip I took when I didn't visit Lainie and Paul.

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Think fungus for Saturday's post.

Primordial Post

 The blog begins.

I am beginning this hybrid photo blog after several false starts. I'm tired of waiting---and now that I've started, I can't stop (Which isn't actually true. Hell, I could post this, then go in and delete it and it would be as if I had never started. But I won't do that.).

I am writing this blog with the initial purpose of  increasing my knowledge of photography and therefore improving the quality of my photos.