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An Afternoon shooting guns

Spent the late afternoon yesterday in some of the mountains south of town shooting some guns with my cousin Loren. It was cold but it was great to be out. Here are a couple photos from our time out

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Happy Holidays

An image of my home blanketed with snow after last Thursdays snow storm. It has been years since the last time we had this much snow fall in southern Oregon.  We were one of the fortunate homes in the area that did not loose power during the storm.  A few friends of mine have been without power for the better part of a week now. Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas

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New Hardcover Portfolio Book: Photographs

Since I have returned home from my time out on the road I have been working on editing and categorizing the photographs that I took over this past year. The goal of course is to put these images to use. I am sure that I will be working with Marina to put together another book that covers our experiences on the road, and I am excited to start working on that project. I also have …

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Sunset in Arizona

This driving north through Arizona, we drove down a long dirt road and took a handful of photographs of this storm cloud that stretched across the western landscape. The setting sun to the west brought a powerful warm stripe of color to the scene. I have been back home for just over a week now.  It’s great to be spending some time with my family for the holidays. Now is the time that I will be …

Timelapse from the Sierra Nevadas

I made this timlapse video while we were travelling south down HWY 395 near Bishop California.  I attached my little action camera to a mount on my bike rack. 

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HWY 395 South

This photo was taken just off of HWY 395 south of Carson city. We have been doing a lot of driving over the past few days.  We travelled from Sonora California north on Hwy 49 in a huge rain storm. Then we travelled east toward Lake Tahoe.  That was a long steep climb for my old car to make, but we made it over the pass before the approaching storm added any more snow to …

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Postcard from Yosemite

Postcard from Yosemite. Marina and I endured the cold for a couple freezing nights but it has been worth it. We arrived at the park early Sunday morning on my (and Marina Hansen‘s) birthday. Yosemite is an easy place to photograph, but it It’s hard to make something original. It’s hard to find a spot where Ansel Adams tripod holes have not already been.  This image is one of my favorites from Sunday, the light is …

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Finding creativity 1

This image was made in Seattle in early in September. This photograph is part of a film project I have been working on for a few months.  The colors and the shapes add to a certain mood that I really like.  I will be starting an on going project here on my blog, I thing a little more structured.  I will be going back through some of my older photos, many of them are photos …

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New e-Book: Dave Matthews Band- A Collection of Photos From Camping at the Gorge

New e-Book: Dave Matthews Band- A Collection of Photos From Camping at the Gorge by By Marina Hansen & Billy Newman I started this new road trip in early September, I was happy to begin the trip by traveling to see the Dave Matthews Band perform at the Gorge over Labor Day weekend. This event was certainly focused more on taking time off, meeting friends and listening to some great live music which has always …

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Camping at the Gorge for the Dave Matthews Band

As it normally goes for me, I am a little bit busier than I had expected, but in fairness this is the busy hectic part of the trip. I am now just wrapping up the first section of the trip. Today I am back in Portland Oregon, currently working out of a Peets coffee while we take turns feeding the parking meter outside (which reminds me of how much I can not wait for the actual wilderness …

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The Oregon Territory

West Coast Trip On Wednesday August 29th 2012 I am planning on packing up my Camry once more and heading out on a trip spanning the west coast.  I have already started the process of gearing up and packing.  I am really excited to get back out on the road to travel camp and create some media.   This trip will span the west coast of the US. First I am driving north, moving slowly …

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Perseid Meteor Shower

Enjoying the Northern sky watching for shooting stars Sunday night:  ISO 200- 24mm- f 3.5 -5 minute exposure The city lights and haze from town sometimes get in the way of a dark summer sky  so I drove out of Grants Pass toward the Applegate valley.  I ended up in Provolt near some open field; I set up my chair, faced northeast and spent the night watching the shooting stars as constellations came up over the horizon.  I …

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Back to the Fifties Photos

This last weekend was the back to the fifties celebration in Grants Pass. One of the main events is a classic car cruise that runs through Downtown. I got down to the cruise after work and after the sun went down. I thought this would be a good opportunity to work on a technique called panning. For this picture I dropped the Sutter speed of the camera down to about 1/4 of a second and …

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Recap of the Oregon Country Fair

The Country fair was a really cool place to visit. This was my first experience with the fair but this place has to be one of the more unique events that I have gone to.   I was only able to attend the fair for 1 day, but I hope in next several years I will be able to stay for a few days.  This place is a really exciting and diverse location to photograph …

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kaleidoscope

Photo Credit – Marina Hansen.  This image was taken at the Oregon Country Fair in a 6 foot open ended kaleidoscope. On one end, there is myself with my film camera,  and on the other end, Marina. I am still waiting to get the counterpart to this image developed. You know… the film photo of Marina that I took at the same time.  When I do, I will post it. I will save the country …

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7/24 photography project- a return to film

This is the start of my film photography project. I have been really interested in creating photographs for over 5 years now. I love photography, I love creating images and sharing them but I am a photographer that came about in the digital age. That is in part why I wanted to start this project. Granted, my first camera was a 35 mm film camera, and with that the first year or so of my …

Home for the Weekend

Horseshoes I am back home for the weekend, I came back into town to visit some friends and to get some work done on my internship project. I took some time this afternoon walking through my grandparents grape arbor and garden. Ive been there hundreds of times before, I have become so familiar with that place; I could walk through it with my eyes closed. Even the horseshoes hanging on the old post in the …

Learn To Fly Day

  Saturday was international learn to Fly Day. I was the assigned photographer for the Barometer. I had a ton of fun Saturday afternoon, The people out at the Corvallis airport are really cool. I really wasn’t expecting to get in a plane and fly around Corvallis when I got there.   I went with Makenzie Marineau, a friend that works for the Barometer. The 2 of us ended up being some of the only people to show up for the …

Finley Wildlife Refuge Butterfly Bush Planting event.

Jeremy Kreutzbemder, a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, volunteered with several other fraternity brothers at the Finley Wildlife Refuge Butterfly Bush Planting event. The Daily Barometer The current endangered situation of the Fender’s blue butterfly has left those concerned with the dwindling population determined to help. Last Saturday, many students and local community members planted various species of plants at the W.L. Finley Wildlife Reserve for the benefit of the sky-blue butterflies. People don’t normally …

Green Screen PSA for OSU bike riders safety

Currently I am in a studio production class at OSU. This video was for an assignment to make a psa about bike riders safety. As you can see it does not look very realistic at all. In fact its some of the worst green screen work I have seen.  But It was a fun thing to shoot and I have to say I learned a lot of what to do and what not to do when …