struggleville

Love the color and composition

Photos by Michael Eastman

Library of Congress Pictures

A new collection on Flickr.

Pickathon 2006: A Roots Music Festival

Pickathon 2006: A Roots Music Festival,
originally uploaded by tdstone.

I attended the 2006 Pickathon on August 5th at their great new venue Pendarvis Farm, which just outside of Portland (depending on who you ask it is in Boring, Pleasant Valley, Happy Valley or Damascus.)

Perfect weather great performances and workshops throughout the day....you should definitely attend next year!

Here is my Flickr set that shows all of Saturday's activities.

Lightning Storm 7-3-2006

Lightning Storm 7-3-2006,
originally uploaded by tdstone.

I have tried on numerous occasions to capture lightning on film. But with novice gear and limited photo skills I have never been too successful. This year I had a bit of success during a July 3rd storm that went on for several hours here in Portland. I've posted my limited success to Flickr...

If you like storm shots though there are literally hundreds of better examples if you search for lightning at Flickr.

And then I also stumbled across this AMAZING shot.

Tilt Shift Pool

The Tilt Shift photographic technique has been all over the web lately...if you are not familiar here is a Tilt Shift Flickr pool.

del.icio.us Photos

A couple of interesting photo finds from del.icio.us popular:

China (several of these look oversaturated in Photoshop to me)
Aerial photos of Mexico City from a helicopter pilot.

Oregon 360

I've been getting a few visitors to this new site mainly thanks to PB and his nice site ORBlogs. So I thought I would play along for once and actually post something related to my homestate. Enjoy the panoramas!

Cool amateur photo

This is real nice. (I hate to say it, via Kottke's Remaindered Links sidebar.)

Photo Scavenger Hunt

If you are a photographer of any kind and are looking for a fun summertime project this sounds interesting. 26 Things.

for the view

The panaroramic shots at this site are very cool and no better palce to start than this shot from the top of Mt. Everest. Wow....Warning possibly slow loading for those on dialup.