My big, fat crush on Oregon
Carla Axtman
I have a tendency to babble on and on about how much I love Oregon. However in the last year I decided to pick up my camera and see if I could capture some digital images that represent a cross section of our state.
Below are some of the fruits of that labor. I actually have a great deal more that I could have included, but I think this is a reasonable representation and honestly, this is a little long as it is. The one thing I didn't get to do this past year was shoot in eastern Oregon, which I hope to do in the coming months. I have lots of images from Baker, John Day, Fossil, Mitchell (etc) but I took them in late 2007/early 2008, so I didn't add them. All of the photos in this video are mine--meaning I took them myself and I own these images.
I hope you enjoy viewing this as much as I enjoy shooting the photos.
Oregon Movie, 2009 from Carla Axtman on Vimeo.
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Oct 3, '09
Great photography, Carla. You obviously have a talent for that art form.
11:44 a.m.
Oct 3, '09
Cool photos! And I thought you were just a great writer.
Oct 3, '09
Yes. Great shots of Oregon!
Camera Details?
Much time spent in PhotoShop?
12:55 p.m.
Oct 3, '09
Mike M:
I shoot a Canon Rebel Xti. I don't use Photoshop (it's too big for my britches, frankly). I use Picasa for cropping, color saturation and to add highlights/shadows.
12:55 p.m.
Oct 3, '09
Oh..Picasa is also used on some images to make them black and white.
Oct 3, '09
Have to agree. Newly bankrupt, a heart's beat from the homelessness, I had a miracle job offer in Austin this week. I turned it down. Had to admit to myself that death in Oregon was better than life in Texas.
6:54 p.m.
Oct 3, '09
Great photos, Carla! Such a broad collection, too.
Let me know if you'd ever like to see any of them on Wikipedia. Many of these would really enrich the site, and I'd love to help if that's something you'd like to do.
Oct 3, '09
Carla,
Very nice pictures!
Oct 4, '09
Great photos Carla. I see you like the airshows. I'll have to take you up in my plane sometime to shoot some pics, you have not seen Oregon until you've had the bird's eye view.
Oct 5, '09
Stunning nature shots. Thanks for sharing them.
Oct 5, '09
Carla, as a young firefighter (underage, actually: I lied about my age cause there weren't no jobs in the late seventies/early eighties!!!) my most favorite plants to space out on were those blue-veined ferns. I am assuming that I just now spaced out.... on a magically luminous shot of the underside of just such a one?
8:17 a.m.
Oct 5, '09
rw:
I don't think that particular plant is a fern...but it does have some amazing bluish-purple veins. I'm not an expert on ferns, but the plant in the photo has single-lobed leaves whereas ferns, in my experience, have multi-lobed leaves.
That shot was taken at the Rose Test Gardens up near the Japanese Gardens in Portland. I thought that plant was simply gorgeous. The light fell just right over the top of the plant to allow me to crawl under and get that shot.
8:20 a.m.
Oct 5, '09
rw...y'know I just reviewed the video again and there is a shot of a dark-veined fern.. :)
So maybe I take all of that other stuff back, eh? LOL
Oct 5, '09
Heheh... there's no defense against the deeply cathected memories of a spaced out, completely cosmic adolescent, huh!
Lovely shot. My most favorite ferns in all the world of six shades of brown and fourteen of green I lived in from June to October for several years. :) And you know how, at that age, we engaged every last mote of life with every bit of acute sensing within us. The iridescence of a moment, the dancing of golden dust, it occurs at the same valence of value as any peak expereince of merger with another soul. Heh. :)... really.
Oct 5, '09
Lovely, Carla. I appreciated the mix of nature shots and then the folks in Salem, folks in the Eastern part of the state, and then back to nature again - what a trip! A real love story, for sure, and one that I share.
8:39 p.m.
Oct 6, '09