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Sparrow Birds Working For Their Meal . I admit, it is ridiculous the money we spend on the wildlife here. The gardens and such to attract the wildlife so I can photograph them. I justify this expense as entertainment, for really Guy and I can sit for hours just talking and watching all the wildlife we work so hard to attract to our place. We stopped in at the Madras Livestock Auction where they opened up a feed store. We need bird seed in big time bulk. The sparrows are the main birds we feed here, but without the sparrows the other birds would not be attracted. As soon as we walked into the feed store we saw this seedblock. We thought this would slow down the birds a little, making them work for their meal. It has, and offered me a great photography opportunity! We are more than happy to try out such products if, and I mean if, it is cost affective!

We watched the Bald Eagles fishing for a while. I understand I need a better tele lens than what I have now for such things as this. It will come. I started out from the truck on the road. Looking down into the canyon I was not sure if I wanted to climb down but found myself doing it!! Guy parked the truck basically just on the dirt road. Over to the side the best he could just so if people were around they could get by it. No where to park! Soon Guy and the dogs were coming too, the dogs found me first of course! We all made our way down into the canyon to the water. Not only were the Bald Eagles fishing, other birds were as well. Their were two adult Bald Eagles and a younger Bald Eagle. The younger one kept trying to take the older ones fish! Big fights ensued. If I did have have this stupid tree in my way!! So we moved locations so the tree would no longer be in my way, though we were in full sight of the eagles as well. So the young Bald Eagle took off out of sight. It did appear that the Bald Eagles were curious as to what we were, and why we were there! They checked us out several times. Than the ducks, and other wildlife left. All three Bald Eagles took off to the other side of the canyon and that was that. To my understanding that side of the canyon belongs to the Warm Spring Indian Reservation, though I could be wrong. The older adults perched in the same tree, while the younger one went into a tree where he could hide from our view. We seen some of his white, but he was not to secure as the older ones were about us seeing him! It was pretty obvious that this younger Bald Eagle was not comfortable around people, or what the eagle did not understand. Here are several photographs of one of the older Bald Eagles fishing.

Many people come here in good weather to camp, boat, fish on and on. Many people do not get to see what we get to see in the winter. We chose where we wanted to go, and headed out. We were told of some snow but the weather channel is not real pacific here. A little snow mixed in with rain. Ok whatever what is new?? Than we got down into the canyon..... Saturday it just dumped on us! Snow is no big deal, it is the black ice we worry about!! More about my getting wildlife photography here in Oregon at my web site..... What we wont do to get that photo!!

While deep in the Ochoco Mountains we ran across a nice flowing creek. I love running water and just had to stop!! Upon inspection of where we were it was obvious this spot had been used as a hunting camp. The legs of the elk and the "meat hangers" (we laughed for I am sure there is a real name for them ha) , that were nailed to the trees. The feathers laying around looked as if maybe a turkey was in the mix with the elk? Even a spot for a bathroom. Gave us this impression. Guy wondered further down the creek then I for things happen to catch my eye. So I was wondering around on my own taking shots of the ice that was found where the water was not running fast. As I was doing my thing I heard some racket that was obviously coming from the trees and from birds. As you can imagine wild creatures do not just sit still so one can snap off photographs, so off I went to get this loud birds photographs! There were at least 3 of these birds, however non of them were all that impressed with any of us there! From the information I gathered of this bird, these must of been truly wild Gray Jays!! Not yet ingrained with human presents. I first thought this was a nutcracker. We have many of those around so it seams. Same family as these Gray Jays, but so is the steller's jay,blue jay and the western scrub jay , the crows, the ravens there is a lot of species in the Corvidae family!! From the sub species of the Gray Jay and getting these photographs in the Ochoco mountains this determined these to be the Bicolored Gray Jay. One thing all these birds have in common is, they are very smart!! Smarter then humans give them credit for! Over the Cascade Mountains there is yet another sub species of the Gray Jay over there with different needs and habits. That Gray Jay does not like snow, the ones here better like snow! Like all birds of the Corvidae family, they are pretty much scavengers, however it appears all the species of the Gray Jay have different food s

Our day yesterday was a lot of fun! The weather was ok , the highs in the 40's the lows in the 20's. According to our trucks outside weather gauge. It rained, it hailed and it snowed. So you can imagine blue skies were hard to find. Wildlife was not hard to find, like most days. They still need to eat regardless of the weather. We climbed down into the canyon to watch three bald eagles fish and do what they do. We climbed out back onto the road and seen a golden eagle in a tree. He took off as we watched him go further up into the canyon another pair of bald eagle came out of no where and started attacking the golden eagle in mid flight. It is said the Bald Eagle soars at 35-43 mph. We watched this and got in the truck to go where the action was. We seen the bald eagles attacking for a little bit when the golden eagle went up high, and started attacking the bald eagles one at a time!

We were up in the Malheur National Forest last Saturday and got a couple photographs. Guy had planned to go to a spot for photographs where we would hike around. This was the first trip in our dodge ram we just picked up. Our chevy suburban is no longer and we like the Ram truck, but we really loved the suburban and of course it was paid off. WOW did things not go as planned!

One morning heading out we saw a hot air balloon in the sky. Than we seen another, and another!! Before we new it we went around the block to see them all. Of course our blocks can be rather long, and walking is not a great idea. It might take all day long! But here is one of the hot air balloons.

Just a few hours ago Guy took me around the block. Oh probably ten miles or so?? It was nice to get out of the house! I do not know about other places, but here this species of falcon are not real..... they take off as soon as attention is directed at them. In other words I have tried to get some shots of the sparrow hawk and finally I did. This American Kestrel is the smallest falcon in North America. Used in falconry so they must be pretty smart! I think they are pretty little birds! Eating grasshoppers, other small birds, and rodents so they are good to have around. Oh I believe they eat the lizards we have here too. It looks like we are in for more bad weather here in central oregon but the wildlife need to eat and I was happy we seen what we did on our short drive.

This pair of Bald Eagles have been hanging around one of the lakes here for a couple weeks now. Saturday we had snow again, which is not a huge surprise. We took off in it and thought it was not a good idea to go down into the canyon so we headed in the direction of this lake. This pair of Bald Eagles we both agreed they must of came down from the Cascade Mountains for the better fishing and all around prey on what I call the flats. Not sure what others around here call this area. I call it the flats for one can actually walk it. I trekked out into the snow to capture these photographs. The one that is on the left is keeping it's eyes on me, that one seams to be the dominant Bald Eagle and the first to fly. The other followed.

Do you feel confused while deciding how to choose the right things which makes your home just the best home in the world. There are very basic things which will decide the outcome of your efforts and we will list them down for you here. Walls color and High Contrast: Go for white color for the entire room and put a decorative piece like painting or statue with high saturated color to stand out in the entire room. What we are going to tell you now is not rocket science. White color makes small rooms look big. Also, what is important is to know whether that room will have ample sunlight or not. If one had carefully watched how colors play magic during sunset and sunrise; they would know that blue, violet, red, orange and yellow are the main ingredients to bring up those amazing combinations. Rooms with less sunlight, we recommend brighter shades of yellowish orange. The dark rooms will then be illuminated using violet- bluish lights to bring up the same magic. We recommend that if you buy paintings which are red colored for decorating room, then don't opt of statues which are blue. Go for Red vases as centerpieces and while doing that, you would be setting up a room which is high on contrast but still not overburdened with all the colors in the world. Focused Lights on main paintings: Lights are one of the most important factors to keep in mind before undertaking any sort of interior designing/re-designing. As we have discussed earlier, the shades and the extent of lighting required will depend on the amount of natural light which is available in the room. We recommend controlled lighting which can be scaled up and down as per the requirement during various times of day and night. We recommend using contrasting lights which means that on blue or purple walls, use lights which are red, orange or red yellowish in nature but use blue or purple lights on bright walls. The key to choose the right lighting is to consider the size and style of the room. Some of the import

Never photographing these before. I was quite happy to find these high up in the Ochoco Mountains of Oregon. We found a area of wildflowers blooming and stopping to photograph all the wildflowers in that spot, then thought we should head up to the higher elevation and did so on a narrow dirt road until we came to melting snow. This is where these were blooming along with some other wildflowers. Noticing a lot of elk and it looked like the horses use the area as a resting place. Wild horses in the Ochoco Mountains is a common thing. Such impressive flowers!

This time we will discuss some basic shooting modes are owned by the digital cameras in general (be it a DSLR or compact cameras). This information can be said is the basic techniques in photography in particular the use of a camera, but we hope this article is useful for those of you who are starting photography world, and began to eksplore shooting modes other than auto. AUTO mode We think not need to talk about the AUTO mode setting (automatic), considering almost all digital cameras have this feature. AUTO Mode instruct the camera to use the 'judgment' in deciding the best Shutter Speed??, Aperture, ISO, White Balance, Focus and flash to get the best results. Some digital cameras still provide control of the flash and Red Eye Reduction in the AUTO setting. Mode settings would provide relatively good results in most circumstances, but keep in mind you need to tell the camera additional information about the type of shots to be taken, so that the images can be in accordance with what you want. Referring to the statement, the following are some modes the automatic camera settings on the camera can give instructions about the photo you want.

Can we learn to feel space in composition? How can we develop this feeling? What are the characteristics of 2D, 3D and 4 Dimensional shots? How can we use geometry to create space? - Shotaddict.com

Sunday was the day we decided to go outside. Saturday it was storming and just to nasty!! We got to see the neatest show we have yet to top down at the canyon.

We love to go into the Ochoco Mountains. This day was no different! We took this "side" road, well road is used rather lightly in some parts of Oregon where we go. The road was getting smaller and smaller!......

What is interesting to me, got me thinking (oh oh she is thinking again ha), we are central Oregon BUT we are not central Oregon. We are not included in many central Oregon happenings. People think of Bend and Redmond when thinking of Central Oregon.

Pickmytemplates Blog is Three Months Old! It has been an awesome 3 months since the inception of our blog on 29th October. We have gotten to meet a number of outstanding creatives and have the honor to feature some of their best works on our blog! We would like to take this opportunity to thank the 23 of them for submitting such exceptional pieces to share with our community. Yes, as of today, we have posted 23 excellent creations by graphic designers, illustrators, web theme designers, photographers and more. A million thanks from our heart!

Photography Shutter and Aperture - Some time ago tutorialphotography.com has reviewed the Exposure Triangle, in which there are three essential elements namely ISO, Shutter Speed and Aperture. We also have reviews how the impact when changing each element to your photo? This article is a continuation of the above review, if you previously requested to use the manual mode to learn Exposure Triangle, now we try to use these elements in two digital camera scene modes, namely photography Mode Aperture Priority and Shutter Priority.