Eastern Oregon Geology
Billy Newman Photo Podcast | 10-24 Eastern Oregon Geology
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thank you for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. My name is Billy Newman. I’m a photographer based in the Northwest. And this is a podcast covering some of the things that I am working on in the media industry for what is it October 24 2017. Coming up to the end of October already, I mean, I think, really like everything that’s going to be Halloween, Halloween, or how the weekend is gonna be this weekend, right? Like the 28th 29th. And then a couple more days to what Tuesday is the 31st. And then we’re November already. That’s that’s how the year is flying by. But man, I’m going to be 29 in like three weeks, I, I got a lot to do a lot. I’m still 28 it’s gonna be busy. So that’s what I’ve kind of tried to do as I’m trying to stay busy. But today, I just wanted to cover a couple things real quick, some of the pictures and stuff that have been going up some of the things that have been been going on things I’m working on. But a lot of it is just been some business development stuff. I’m trying to figure out networking stuff and going to a networking event tomorrow, I’m probably pretty ill prepared for it right? Like, do you guys have business cards, everybody has business cards, at least everybody used to but nowadays, it seems like the digital notion of it is kind of taken over and that you need like some other platform or some of the thing to express where to send people for business stuff. But you also need like some kind of physical card or note or something, man, I mean, really, it’s weird that I had a set for a long time I got like a pat, you know, big packet business cards at one time at my name and my info on it. And it was fine. But it just they don’t go out enough. And they do not like, or at least the people I was giving it to you. It wasn’t like a networking situation, it was just people a lot of time and then he ended up really not actually getting that much contact back or that many leads out of it. But that is no reason not to try it. So tomorrow I’m going to a networking, lunch and thing I’m going to try and try and meet some people and I don’t know, see if see if they need photos. Who knows, I don’t know what kind of business to really pitch some guy who runs an accounting office, or an H vac guy, you know, like a heating and AC guy. What are they gonna do? I don’t know. Like, I don’t want to take a bunch of company portraits of people. But I want better job or you know what, like different different kind of gigs to go work. I don’t want like some contract business to work on. And so I’ll do whatever work I can do, I suppose. But I really kind of want to work with clients that sort of understand what I’m trying to do and clients that I could actually really help out a lot like I can make a couple portraits for some local business. I’m sure if anybody’s got the or you know, just been through photo stuff, they kind of get like, that’s sort of a diminishing returns kind of game like yeah, there’s there’s 50 bucks in there this afternoon, maybe, and I guess maybe a relationship and that’d be cool. I’d like to network that I suppose. But there’s so much of it. That’s just like thin. Does that make sense? Like there’s really never any outcome of it, I’ve just, oh, it’s just, it’s just this sort of small time client is trying to get more value out of me than what they’re offering. It’s kind of a weird thing. It’s just sort of an uncomfortable situation. I’m happy to work with clients to work with people all the time really do a lot of stuff for darn near free. And kind of given the value of work. It’s like, I don’t know, it makes sense. Yeah, like they’re paying a good bit I want to try and work for him. I want to try and get the photographs made in a good way. There’s a lot of competition out there for photographers. So yeah, I want to participate. But man is there an interesting thing of like kind of networking and dealing with clients and stuff for photography, but it’s my I’ll be good. I don’t participate enough with with networking of you know, different local businesses and stuff but outside of local businesses and whatever kind of nonsense that might be what I’m really trying to push for is the business development in inside of the industry inside of like an we’re building a network of you know, people that are photographers that I’ve that I’ve met or networked with or kind of associated with in some way. I’m just trying to get like some better information around that I’ve been hearing about sort of like a trend I don’t know it’s like these five minute networking meetings. You know, it’s like a short term meeting period where I don’t know where you where you’re in the same industry I don’t know UBS for a couple minutes It seems kind of trendy in the in the popular or you know, the city version of stuff. I don’t know you dm someone on Instagram. Hey, give me five minutes, your time and let’s talk. And then I guess you talked to him. I don’t know what you ask him. You look at their website, you say Hey, how’s it going? cool photos? what’s what’s that, like? How’s your business? I don’t know what you do. But you try and meet these, these people, or these photographers or wedding planners or whatever, whatever kind of thing you’re trying to network for. But I’m trying to get into that a bit more, and set up some meetings and generate some calls. But that’s been kind of fun. But outside of that really like what the big focus is is is putting together a bunch of the photographs that had been shooting and that’s been going really fun to I put up a couple photos this last week like that teepee ring I was talking about in Eastern Oregon, and then ntps kind of a coloque or you know, it’s like it’s a word we will understand for a canvas hut
made to be a dwelling. Didn’t know. So I’m sure there’s lots of different forms of I was looking at a little bit more after that. And it looks like I think that site like that that TP ring site that I was looking at, I think it was established like 2500 years ago. Maybe that’s correct. It could be 2500 BC, it could be all sorts of things. There’s, there’s, there’s information out there. I think from the University of Oregon, one of the researchers that was there did their dissertation in the early 90s, on an archeological site that was near that area. And they found remnants of Clovis people, I think I mentioned that this last time the Clovis people was that was a group that came through after like the landbridge, you know, like that, like the original kind of kind of group of people that came through the area. And so for a lot of time, they didn’t really consider that they were in the Oregon region or the Oregon territory, but there’s a lot of evidence. I mean, I think like the fort rock shoe, fat, you can see pictures of that. I think it’s like a you know, it’s a it’s an interesting artifact, but I think it was dated like 12,000 years ago. It’s it’s one of the oldest human ram remnants out there, but it was just cash issues. I was out by little fort rock. And then I think there’s another one out Nia Paisley, another set of caves where there was a cache found some really interesting stuff out there. But today, I posted a photograph of one of the rocks that I found out there is just kind of a cool two tone piece. I don’t know if it’s Jasper, or if it’s just something else like that. But it’s this cool two tone piece of rock. I think Jasper that kind of flows from from like an Auburn sort of orange color into a deep red color at the top of it, it was just kind of a cool thing. And, and what’s cool about Eastern Oregon is, is you can just walk around out there. And there’s so much of the geology exposed, there’s so much land expose, there’s a lot of really cool stuff that you can walk around and find are just some really interesting pieces that you can go about and find that show a lot of the geological history of the past out here like, like where obsidian came from. in Oregon. It’s really interesting when you start finding, like naturally formed obsidian in some places. I think like after mazama, that was a big one. There’s another area called glass mountain, not in Eastern Oregon. But Oregon was a really big location of it. I think, specifically because of the Cascade Mountains. There’s a lot of volcanic activity that created that. And it’s interesting too, because I suppose that, I suppose because I’ve read that, that as archaeologists, like look at the type of stone it is even further back toward like the Mississippi, they find. They find artifacts that are made of obsidian. And they can trace that stone source back to the west coast, which is really interesting. I think it’s sort of an indicator of some of the more established trade routes that they had where they would trade Flintstone and obsidian stone across tribes and it would end up migrating for, you know, 1000s of miles across the United States. But it’s really interesting when you start kind of picking up on some of that. And away cool when you get back out there in the Eastern Oregon when when that stuff’s exposed on the ground, you can walk around and like oh, well look at this. Look at these types of look at this type of soil. Look at this kind of rim rock. Look at these petroglyphs. I mean, there’s lots of Indian remains out there. That’s really interesting. So all that stuff’s super fascinating to me. And, and a lot of it we like I was mentioned before, we don’t really get to see over here in the Willamette Valley from the calapooia Indians that were over here and a huge population just just 1000 years ago all from Eugene to Portland, there was a bajillion people that kind of populated this valley because it’s so fertile, I’m sure you know, it’s a great place to live. Or it’s a it’s a pretty suitable moderate climate and a lot of ways and man way better than the east side of the Cascades. Oh, be rough out there. Imagine like a winter out and burns before there’s a burns. Yikes. That’s what I was hearing about is that Yeah, lots of stuff out there and all those lakes but but really interested to go to go check out and look at and kind of learn more about that sort of stuff. But yeah, I put up another photo today of that that two tone piece of Jasper rock that I thought was pretty cool. I found out there. Put up another photo. I talked about it a little while ago on the podcast, but that was a photo of the broken window that had been smashed out of my truck. And by one of the homeless people in the neighborhood. They took a paver, big cement paver, and they just bashed it into the side of the window. Oh, man, it was like over 1000 you know, if I had to pay for I guess insurance took care of a lot but man, deductibles, and all that nonsense that is associated with it. It’s just like a total loss of productivity in a big way.
That’s Wait, frustrating. But I got a I got a window. It’s cool. I gotta wait longer. But I’m sad. I don’t know. It’ll be okay. But it doesn’t really change the homeless person problem and nothing really gets sorted out to stop it. It’s just sort of, you know, all over. It hasn’t really stopped. So I thought of of the grief I’m going through but really as it goes, most stuff is going quite well. That’s all repaired now. And yeah, moving forward. Moving along. It’s been a pretty fast month. A lot of changes. While like I just like business changes, word changes kind of stuff. But alive is still pretty steady. It’s been a way comfortable month. Like the weather has been awesome. At least in a lot of ways, like there’s a good bit of rain for what like a week are selling in October, like the semi truck pass, but yeah, there’s a, there’s like a week of bad weather or I don’t know, there’s a little bit of bad weather, and I’ve definitely been putting up with it. And man, these waves of rain that are going to be coming through, oh, that gets super frustrating, especially when you’re working outside, you know, you just have to walk around and like, try and set stuff up and still be out there in it. But man, a lot of the time, it’s like, if you want to, if you want to work outside and take photos, it’s really cool when it’s nice out. But man is there sure half a part of the year, that is no fun to go out. And I remember like, like last December and January, rough days to get out. It’s like, light out at 9am 915. Really looking forward to that part of the year again. So coming up pretty soon, I got a birthday a couple weeks ago saying gonna be 29. And in the year of 28, pretty soon and I guess had a couple goals through that. But most of them were, I mean, like, Well, my goals, or it seems like I’m obsessive about the stuff man do I focus on it? But yeah, it’s all photography based. It’s all it’s all trying to, like, develop a media business. And yeah, it’s just been cool for it, I’m really happy to keep working on it’s a grind. Like it’s just, it’s just part of it, there’s a lot of stuff that you got to put together. Like every day I got like trying like Oh, man, Okay, I gotta like screen capture this thing on my phone and make sure I post it here and here and here. And then I have to get these sets of posts ready, then I have to, you know, try and record some nonsense of a podcast in the microphone, and, and then post that somewhere for 15 people to download and then after, like, go set up something on YouTube and like, try and get that going. And all that stuff is good. And it’s been really cool. But and I’m really proud of like, trying to get more that stuff established, more of it laid out. But the other part I want to work on, like I was talking about the beginning is distribution, and networking and like communication of other people. But yeah, I’m definitely at the point where I’m starting to be. I don’t know what it would be like, like where the work that I put in. And that’s the thing. I talked about this plenty of times too. But as you get older, as you put in years of work into a certain discipline, it takes like a number of years before that work really starts to vest or starts to come through starts to mean something that’s a lot more valuable for you. And I’m really trying to respect that part of it and try and understand, like, I’m paying my dues, and I’m trying to get in and do work and stuff. And I understand that really none of this stuff goes fast, or can be faked. And I don’t know, it took me a while to get that in a sense, or it took me a while because of like the the, I don’t know, it’s just tedious, right? It’s tedious to start to understand what it takes to be successful, or what it takes to really get good at the thing you want to do. And, and yeah, it’s been fine, but it’s interesting coming up to the age of 29 coming into 30 next year, man, that’s gonna be a big one. I got to schedule out my weeks. I got 52 weeks to make it happen. You know what I mean? What 5455 now? Yeah, probably 54 weeks before I’m 30 that’s a big deal. Oh, 30 Yikes, I gotta make it happen, you know. But I guess outside of that, and this Mack truck that is really about everything that’s been going on. I’ve been putting up a bunch of stuff on Instagram a bunch of stories and stuff. You can check them out at Billy Newman on Instagram. You can go to Billy Newman photo comm check me out on Twitter. But who goes to Twitter anymore? Twitter’s wrapping up. I don’t know. At least for me. I don’t know if it really ever blew up but but yeah, check out Instagram. Check out YouTube if you want you can cruise around for Billy Billy Newman photo out there too. And, yep, I’m off to do some more networking. I’m gonna post this podcast and shoot me a DM on Instagram if you listen to this podcast. Anyway, thanks a lot. Have a good one. Bye.