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This weekend we had a “Valen-times” party at our house. Slow start but it was a pretty fun night overall. I think the picture does a better job to expreess the mood of the party then what I could write. Still found some time to take pictures that night

I got the chance to meet Mike Rowe a couple months back while I was in San Francisco for campus movie fest. At this event Mike Rowe gave a talk on the beginning of his career and how he got started in the business. Here is another talk he gave for FORA.tv about a particular experience he had while working on dirty jobs on Discovery, Misconceptions and the value of work. Lots to take away from this.

  Drove up Spencer Creek again to day and took some photos of the valley. The fog thats been in the valley finally started to break up today.   

Here is another photo looking down into the fog near a draw between the hills and sunset

  This is an old post to a fence that I was walking by today    I drove up Spencer creek road to try to get out of the fog in the valley. It was completely clear out just a couple hundred feet up. Only a few of the hills in the valley broke through the top of the fog

  Here is an image I made by the Christmas tree. I set the aperture wide open and the focus ring to infinity.  

Had some fun last night walking around making some long exposer images, Here is one of the images that I liked. Its the caveman bridge in Grants pass.         

Check out the latest episode of OSU in review. This week we talk about  the osu emergency alert system for osu the start of the trail blazers season. halloween and homecoming and this weeks music and entertainment news.

Im still really suprised that we were able to pull this off. I was confident that our project submission was funny and as good as we were going to make it but  I was worried that we wouldn’t make the top 16. For all of our friends that showed up to support us,  THANK YOU ! I really do appreciate it. Also thanks to everybody that worked in the team to create this video. I …

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZ_A86cZmOE] The Flash mob tonight was a ton of fun. Here are some clips from the delayed flash mob in the Library.

Here is just a sneak peak at what my schedule is for fall term. First couple days of class are already keeping me pretty busy.

Camping in eastern oregon was great. My Father and I camped out for 2 nights, the first night we spent over by the town of plush east of lakeview. In the warner rim area. This photo is looking from our campsite over to heart mountain to the North east. The second day we drove over to heart mountain and took a gravel road across the top over to the town of frenchglen.  From there we …

Its rare that our entire family gets a chance to be in the same spot all at once.  Its strange because when I was growing up it was completly common place for everyone to get together on a weekly basis.  Even though that was the case it was still rare for us to get a family portraits. In fact there is only a handful of photos like that around. Glade we finally got the oppurtunity.

My toyota camry just passed 290,000 miles.

Check out the video of our backpacking tirp to Waldo lake.

Heading out backpacking with some of the guys for an overnight trip, We will be leaving tomorrow at about nine and driving east on highway 58 to waldo lake. Tonight I have been putting together some of my gear. It will be pretty cool to head out and rough it for the day at least.  Suprisingly that short amount of time requires allot of gear just on its own.  I was looking up some info …

The other morning after Jeremy and I got back from the surprise Dave Chappelle event in Portland, I left before sunrise and drove out to a wildlife refuge that’s south of town.  I was dead tired since I had been up all night but the morning was great for shooting. It’s interesting to see how different the sunrise is from the sunset. I had my Nikon D40 and my D1 with me. I was trying …

“The Greatest Show that Never happened” – Dave chappelle Tuesday night at around 11:35 , Jeremy ran out of his room and exclaimed that Dave Chappelle would be doing a free event at pioneer square in portland and that we needed to drive to portland  right at that moment to see it. I at first did not beleive it at all, as you can imagine there are very few things that sound more like a …

Yesterday I went to the Tears for Fears concert up in portland, I had a ton of fun. The concert was at the zoo strangley enough, right in between the polar bears and the elephants. My friend Justin Ross invited me to go with him to the concert. The show overall was great, the guys in the band are still very solid. Especially Roland Orzabal (the goofier looking one in the image) really showed his …

I am reposting this article from http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_12767150 Its a couple of days old. I am sure at this point every one knows about it. Rip Chelsea and Joshua Silva The second victim has been identified from a three-car crash Thursday on U.S. Highway 101 near Garberville.Chelsea Silva, 17, from Grants Pass, Ore., was ejected from a Dodge 3500 truck along with the driver, 25-year-old Joshua Silva of Willits, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Department. …

I took this photo just the other day with my Nikon D1. This was just one of the flowers growing in our garden. I was impressed with the quality of the image. There are many things that I could have done better as the photographer, But the captured image itself is at a much higher quality then I thought it would be. Right now I have it blown up as my desktop image and I …

R.I.P. Nissan Sentra Check out this video of Jake Riddles car exploding. http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Jake_Riddles_car_explodes_vid

went down to the Illinois river to store gultch this last sunday. Had a good day with the guys Kyle brought his video camera and taped me jumping off the rock a couple times. The onlly bummer was that right as I got there I dropped my little point and shoot camera in the water so it was toast for the rest of the day. Luckly for me once it dried out it worked fine.