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Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast.
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This was a photo during the winter snowstorms that we had here in the Willamette Valley. And I think we did a walk over to campus after the storm had passed. That’s kind of one of the nice things is often one, at least as it is on the West Coast over here once we have a snow pass, or a snow storm Passover, which is rare, really, it seems, seems like that afternoon or that next day, it clears off the storm passes and there’s a there’s a lot of clear sky after it, which is great often because it’s tough to photograph snow on trees. When the sky is white, there’s not enough contrast, there’s not enough light to really break apart the colors that we’re going to be photographing. And so I like that a lot. In this photo of an evergreen tree that’s coated and draped with a lot of snow, a lot of fresh powder that had fallen the night before, surrounded by a blue sky with a few white puffy clouds in it. But it was a cool photo to to try and take we were over I think in one of the forested areas doing a doing a walk, or I guess like a hike right? And had the camera with me did a bunch of photos from this section is really cool spot. And I guess it’s one of those things where it seems like the Willamette Valley only gets snow like this, like once every two or three years. So it was cool to, you know, have the winter storm come through and enjoy it while we were there. Thanks for listening. You can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo comm you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon, I think you look at Billy Numan under the authors section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism on camping, and cool stuff over there. But I was gonna talk about that a little bit, I thought it’d be kind of cool to talk about at least some of the stuff that I know about some of this stuff sort of around hunting stuff, I don’t I guess I don’t really get into a ton of hunting stuff. But But I was trying to think a little bit about some notes that I had about finding and scouting out dispersed hunting campsites or dispersed campsites that are that are away from parks away from state parks and, and sort of those, those bigger areas that are just kind of wide out open that you can camp in. And I’ve been able to find like a number of them over the years, it’s really cool get to kind of find those locations that you kind of keep a memory of their spot and then go back to year over year. And these are spots that are cool, because they don’t offer any facilities or any services. So there’s no no water there, you got to bring all your water in, there’s no bathroom services, there’s no pavement, probably it’s like a pretty dispersed remote location that you can kind of drive up to, but it’s also still connected to a road. So it’s not as deep into the back country is like a real place that you go. So for like a lot of hunting stuff, I think what I’d seen in the past and what some of these seem to be set up for is like a hunting party of se for for cars, you know, for a couple groups of people coming together, and then meeting meeting up for their hunting party. And then having a location where they can have like a big enough base camp where they can have all their equipment there for cars. And then they can go out on their couple day expeditions or their morning high and come back to the camp go out on the evening, come back to the camp sort of stuff for what seems like a lot of people in in their different locations that they go go out on hunting trips and stuff. But I was out in the john de river area driving the john de River Canyon, which is like an area, I guess you can probably find it the john de river empties out into the Columbia River. And and then I think kind of is one of the larger river systems, the larger River drainage is that exist out in Eastern Oregon there. There’s a few others that are kind of out there. But I think that’s one of the bigger ones that cuts through some of the sections that Eastern Oregon otherwise there’s like the Deschutes that runs down the east side of the Cascades and drains a couple a couple of the rivers into it before it empties out into the Columbia River a little closer to like the Mount Hood area. But the john de river area is cool. It’s out there in Eastern Oregon. And that’s where I was camping a little bit earlier in July. And as I was driving through I have that that map app that onyx mapping tool.
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When I was going through and I was marking locations as drive I really didn’t like stay there I stopped there I take pictures or something but I go through and mark these locations as I was driving around for these dispersed campsite locations that had passed. And so it was kind of a good way for me to make a catalog kind of passively as I was driving around but make a catalogue of the locations that I might be able to go back to and some of the campsites that seemed a little bit more suitable for a day or an overnight kind of trip or a couple days. or something like that. So that’s what I was thinking about for for like dispersed hunting campsite locations of some of the stuff that people kind of use. But by setting up the mapping tools, and using like the photo geotag service or that that option it’s in the Onyx off road map app or the Onyx hunt app works really well I was I was finding it worked really well to, to kind of grab the phone, take a picture when you arrived at a location that was like a good hunting camp, but I found like, probably like six or seven on the last two or three trips that I’ve done just kind of scouting around as I was driving around in the woods and stuff, you know, places that I didn’t end up camping that night. But I thought it would be a pretty reasonable spot to head back to sometime in the future. So yeah, the john de river area had like a lot of stuff sort of that area, I guess between, like the Painted Hills, around Mitchell, and there’s probably a lot of stuff that goes up that highway toward the town of john day. But I think I took like a background that follow the john de river from like the Mitchell area up toward Clair now, which I think is like north of there kind of jumps like to one of the highways that runs north of there. But the I got clear no and up. So I kind of took that section and I was trying to mark like a few of those dispersed camping sites that I would find on the sides. And a lot of these, like I was saying, like, there’s no services or anything, but they’re set up on BLM land or or national forest land. A lot of them I think, are BLM land. I’m not totally sure about that, how that goes. But as this was Yeah, it was like, like, just, well, what am I trying to say about it? What’s cool about these dispersed campsites is that you know, you can set up as much stuff as you want, you can be there pretty much undisturbed the whole time. And it’s cool. Like I think a lot of these sites are great to combat during the summer stuff. But you can kind of see why they’re designed like how they were set up that they’re really laid out for hunters coming in in September and October to do like the elk and deer, like hunting trips. But you can kind of tell that I think by like some of the tools and stuff that are set up or like some of the ways they have their tables, you see those you see like a branch that’s been like nailed in about 10 or 12 feet or 15 feet up in a tree. And I think that’s where you can like bring in a deer after it’s after you get it while you’re out hunting, you can bring it back and then string it up and then start carving up the meat. While it’s like while it’s hung up on that, but I think that’s like one of the signs that I see a lot but also it was like I don’t know just whatever they use for their fire pit or whatever else they use really you’re gonna see hunters probably like this week and for the next like month straight if you’re out in any of those. This further Eastern Oregon places that people set up to do their hunting trip and stuff. But there’s a couple on and offs between the hunting seasons and stuff in the next couple of weeks. But it’s kind of it’s kind of interesting going out there. And I remember this time of year like out out in Eastern Oregon toward Hart mountain, there were like a bunch of hunters that would be set up in different spots. For like a couple sections after Labor Day I remember when I was a kid I didn’t totally reckon how many people would be going to certain places for hunting season stuff, but I was thinking like wow, there’s a lot of people can’t wait for some time after Labor Day. And you think oh yeah, this is like it’s actually like outdoorsman really like to go hunting like to go do stuff into October into November. And I was thinking oh yeah, they’re not doing like summer camping trips anymore. They’re, you know, they’re actually doing doing something else out here in the woods. But it’s uh, yeah, it’s kind of fun, going around, checking out stuff and trying to do some scouting for that.
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It’s cool, though, you know, one thing I’ve kind of recognized over the years is, it’s really tough to like just go out into an area that you don’t really know very well and try and find a good campsite. And that’s why I’ve, I’ve kind of started. Well, that’s really a definitely a big reason why I’ve tried to start making like a little catalog of locations a good campsite, I find while I pass them. But also I’ve been trying to notice that some spots are going to be better than others for different times of the year. So I’ve been really trying to do a lot of like off season scouting, where at different times of the year when maybe even I’m not on a camping trip, I’m able to kind of scout out a couple different areas, and marks and locations or at least like write down remember that there’s a location that I want to go back to. But that helps a lot when you’re trying to go out to a campsite or to a camping area, or when your circumstances change like a lot of time of camping by myself. But it’s kind of cool to remember locations that are a little bigger or something or have a little bit a little bit more of a Ease of Access. If you’re going with like a group of people that’s a little larger and you want to accommodate a couple different cars or a couple different people. I was kind of noticing like the difference between like, like group sites and like kind of like more remote sites that you might go to. And that’s sort of something that you’re going to notice that they’re to have these kind of these bigger group sites where it seems like you You’d almost have like a horse camp or something I’ve seen that as a as an option out there too it’s kind of strange when you go out you know, there’s like kind of regular camps it seems like you get set up and then there’s like a camp with a, with a corral built into the campsite. And it seems like it’s made from timber that was cut and processed, you know, they just like cut down a tree right there then split it and then made a corral out of it to keep their horses for their horse camp that they had for, you know, some hunting thing that they’re up to, or some outdoors thing they were up to. But it seems like a lot of these places are like big enough to like, bring in an ATV, or you know, they have like a quad or something like that. But it seems like there’s kind of like a big circle that area and then otherwise, there’s like different locations that kind of like more like high clearance trucks or you know, like some kind of four, four wheel drive location that’s a little bit further or you can kind of get back a little ways into the what would kind of be the back country or into it closer to a wilderness area, and then you can take that, and then jump back further and do some hunting in an area that you may be scattered out earlier in the year. But for me, like I don’t really want to do any of that stuff. I’m just out kind of hunting for pictures and hunting for good campsites and stuff. So that’s kind of what’s been fun about that going through the john de river area up there, there was a lot of stuff that that bordered like some BLM land that stretched up a hill and I guess that areas like one of the one of the drainage is that people go to for a lot of elk hunting. And here it’s known for that, or you gonna know for some pretty big elk that they’re able to get out of that area, which is kind of, it’s kind of cool, be fun, be fun to see some elk out there. I’ve only seen a couple elk and most of the time I just see the female elk I don’t think I’ve really ever seen like a big ball elk out there in the woods. Let me kind of fun that I’ve had a good time Yeah, getting out to go to some of those dispersed camping sites and stuff there’s yes I’m out in deep Eastern Oregon by like heart mountain that I’ve always really liked. There’s a lot it kind of that Eastern Oregon section when you get out there. But what I’ve noticed though, is a lot of the stuff in the National Forest section of say like the Cascades, it seemed like pretty pretty well populated, it’s kind of hard to find good spots up there you can you can find like, you know, little pull outs and dead end roads and stuff but, but as it goes for like just kind of big free dispersed campsite sections, it’s a little bit harder to find up, it’s a little more organized out in those locations. That’s what’s cool about some of the BLM stuff and some of the high desert location stuff is it’s just it’s just kind of wide open, you’re just you know, sort of driving around, you take some little dinky road off to the side and then you’re at a cool fire pit in the big Juniper tree and it looks like people have been camping there forever, you know. So it’s, it’s cool, you can kind of find some stuff like that. And I’ve had a good time going out to Eastern Oregon to find some stuff like that for myself. So I want to get out there and try and go camping at some of this. Some of the spots you know, like I’m kind of competing with the hunting season like I was saying, but but even silly, I want to jump out there and try and do some fall camping. That’s really like one of the best times for you to go out there. I really like the springtime like even the early springtime like late March and April, well, it’s still pretty cold.
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If you can, if you can gear up for it, it’s really a cool time to be out there because you have so much like texture weather in the sky and the clouds that it kind of keeps the terrain pretty interesting. It can be pretty miserable, you know if the weather is totally turned on yet, but as it goes for a lot of it, it really is kind of like a cool time to be out there in the summertime. It’ll even by like may or little into June for sure. It just gets so hot that it’s kind of tough to be out just kind of wandering around or hiking around in the in the daytime. So it kind of cuts down on the amount of just kind of trekking around or wandering or poking around so that you could do you probably do some from your truck or something but it’s a little more fun to get out there and hike around. Check some stuff out. So it seems like the fall like when the temperatures are down a little bit. You have a little bit better opportunity to do that. And then early in the springtime. But I think the Fall is my favorite time to be out there when you’re you’re watching the aspen trees kind of change from green to yellow to orange and get a lot of color out there. And some of those simoes Aspen groves grow out in Eastern Oregon. So I want to try and go out there and get some photographs of it as the seasons start to change and the colors come on and the trees I get I bet there’s gonna be some nice days and stuff out there. And it seems like some of the trees are already starting to turn a little bit like I was saying in that last podcast I’m seeing a lot of a lot of trees kind of start to get that late, late summer, early fall tinge to them where it looks like they’re about to about to turn over and get brown and began fall began autumns so it’s gonna come on pretty fast. That’s it with the Yeah, like the second week of September.
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You can check out more information that nude photo calm you can go to Billy Newman photo.com Ford slash support. If you want to help me out and participate in the value for value model that we’re running this podcast with. If you receive some value out of some of the stuff that I was talking about, you’re welcome to help me out and send some value my way through the portal at Billy Newman photo comm forward slash support, you can also find more information there about Patreon and the way that I use it if you’re interested or feel more comfortable using Patreon that’s patreon.com forward slash Billy Newman photo. Couple of things I wanted to talk about were some Mac apps today, I’ve been trying to sort of set up my mac book to be
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is configured with a few more utilities and a few more pieces of software that make it a little more functional for me. So I want to try and talk about those a little bit today. But one of them was I stat menus, it was this application that I’d heard about. Maybe over a year ago, I’ve been using it a lot when I was trying to render some 360 footage and a lot more like video footage, I was just using a computer like the whole day to do that. It’s this program I sat menus is really good for adding in a bunch of information like a bunch of system information to your computer right at the top of the wizard bar at the top, you know, like the Apple menu and your time and your clock and stuff, right? If you get a bunch of a bunch of information about like your disk space, your network speeds, uploads and downloads, your CPU and GPU. It’s pretty interesting, I like to again to check it out. And kind of when you have a bunch of graphs that sort of indicate when or how much how much of a system is going toward that task at that time. So right now I’m doing an upload to Amazon photos to try and get a backup of all my images up there. And I’m looking at the network monitoring. And so showing me like a history of my network upload speeds over the last 24 hours. And I see like there’s a big dip before like 5am while I was running overnight, and then now it’s back up like two maybe 3x what it was before. So it’s an interesting kind of monitor, like how high your speeds are. And that sort of thing. When I was running, rendering video out, it was cool, because you can see like the temperature sensor sensors inside of the computer. And in addition to that, you can see like the hard drive space that was left on each few drives, including your externals, and you can see how fast the CPU and GPU are working. So I’ve been using this app a lot for kind of the system process, monitoring stuff, it’s cool, I’ve been enjoying it, it’s kind of fun to to get used to. In addition to that another one that I’m checking out is probably one that a lot of people have heard of before, but I think it’s called magnet magnet, I think and it sort of reproduces the functionality that you get, I think started back in Windows seven, where if you pull a window to the edge of the screen, it’ll sort of snap to the edge of that side of the screen or oral snap to be split pane window. It’s kinda interesting how it works. But I like I like how it works on Windows and I have been sort of frustrated in the past that I don’t have that kind of utility in the Mac OS system. So I you know, just windows are sort of built to kind of float all over each other. And I did kind of like that part of windows or even back in my experience of working windows, which is in a way I work with a computer now I have like seven windows up right now. The windows, I really always go to full screen application almost all the time. So it’s kind of interesting, that workflows rate changes over time. What else am I working on? Oh, Amazon photos, that was another one that I guess I’m I’m kind of going through right now sort of lean into another side of it. But I’ve been using Amazon photos for a while and the Amazon drive system, I did have some backups or not even really backups for the photos backups of the photos as well, because it’s the dngs and it is the JPEG images, I think you can put video up there also. But that takes up paid storage space. So for photos that you can put as many photos on the cloud as you want with your prime membership. And I think I put like probably almost 100 gigs of photos up there. So it’s cool, you do have access to all of your images in that library of images you have online like I can pull it up on my phone in an app and I can pull it up on the web or in a few other places. So it just gives me an accessibility to my images I hadn’t really had before to every image and that way at least that’s kind of cool that you know, I do see that I have access to all of those photographs. Bigger than that I really need to go through and make more functional collections of smaller sections of that so that I have just a lot of the photos I would need to use set up and a high quality system that are more accessible to me that’s still that’s still a little piece that isn’t really quite as tight as I would like it within my photo business. But I’ve been using Amazon photos to make a backup of everything, almost everything is already there. But it can incremental area like as you go, you need to get all the new stuff up there. So I’m trying to put up a bunch of the stuff that I’ve had for the last couple months when I haven’t really been able to put a sync back up to the Amazon photos. cloud backup. The cool thing is though, is I’m trying to work with iCloud a little more in addition to that, and so I’ve been setting up the iCloud
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put it in Finder, so I can access my iCloud data there in Finder from multiple computers and from my phone, which is cool. But on my phone in my files app I was going in there and I put in. So I have like the Amazon drive application on my phone, I had my files application sort of show that I can go to my Amazon photos files that are from my phone. So without even going to the Amazon photos application just from my files app, I can go through and browse all those photos folders on the cloud and then pull up and view those images. I thought that was kind of cool. Or it was just interesting to see like Well yeah, I can jump to each any data photos that I want back in time because they’re all backed up now and more accessible. So So I think it’s pretty cool. It’s a it’s a free service when you pay for a prime membership. So I guess the proper way to say it is it is it is a premium service that is included with your prime membership, which seems to be pretty valuable. A lot of the time. I like the Amazon cloud services and cloud storage services, which I’m trying to get a little more into, like I was mentioned, I think it’s I think it’s 11 or 12 bucks a year for 100 gigabytes of storage space on Amazon drive. Thanks a lot for checking out this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Hope you guys check out some stuff on Billy Newman photo comm a few new things up there some stuff on the homepage, some good links to other other outbound sources, some links to books and links to some podcasts. Like this blog posts are pretty cool. Yeah, check it out at Billy numina photo calm. Thanks for listening to this episode and the back
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