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tutorial beach portrait photography - Cheer up you have a beautiful beach in the city or county. Most people always think the beach has its own charm to unwind, relax with friends, or even as a place to jog. The main reason of course because enthralling landscapes, color blue reflects the freedom and light to attract attention. We believe, when looking for a hunting certainly occurred to you to consider the beach as a destination. Beach always offers great photographic opportunities, but equal to the other hunting spots, the beach also has a level of difficulty and challenge for a photographer. Strong light may damage the camera, it is also one of the reasons why there are UV filters.

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

ISLAND BEACH STATE PARK - The O'Sullivan family knew they could jump in the ocean during their visit to the beach here, but were surprised at a chance to tread through the bay hunting for clams. The opportunity was just one interactive lesson the O'Sullivan children, Ryan, 4, Karleigh, 7, and Shailyn, 9, got Tuesday as part of the "Harvest the Bay" festival at Island Beach State Park. The first of three such festivals this year welcomed local businesses, nonprofits and other partners to showcase what they do for Barnegat Bay with tables, games, and hands-on demonstrations, said Ed Hale, a naturalist for the state park.

Mule Deer Doe. Bow hunting is in full swing now, but this doe was just resting. Not as many hunters out as we thought there would be, so it was good for me for photographs!

As we were sitting outside we were fortunate enough to get a show. The show was put on by our resident Red - Tailed hawks also known as (AKA), the chicken hawk. Two of the hawks have bright red tails and red within their feathers. This one has no red tail yet.

This cold snap came in and here are some of the photographs of the ice covered vegetation and on top of the ice is the snow. You can see which way the wind blew at the freezing point. Ya, it was cold Sunday when we were out and about! The wildlife still needs to eat, they still need to hunt, and they still need to be outside doing their thing. No matter what the weather is like.

Nature can be not so nice. Animals have to eat, this is just the way it is. Birds of prey are a favorite of mine to capture with my camera. I like to get them hunting and when I get a chance, to get them eating. I chose only ten photographs to show, from when I first seen this red tailed hawk eating, to when he flew off. It was not easy to pick out only ten photographs!! He/she even gave me the evil eye a time or two! When Guy asked me if I wanted to go somewhere I was up and getting ready!

I pay a lot of attention to Ravens. Some of my best photographs came to be because of the ravens. Ravens are really just a big crow. They are a very intelligent bird, which I guess some can argue with. They work as a team. As a family unit and are very bold creature. More than one raven is called "An unkindness of ravens", I can see why because wow can they drive off the biggest of creatures! There are ten species of the Raven with two more that are said to be extinct. The Magpie appears to be tolerated by the Raven, though they too are finally ran off by the bigger Raven. The Magpie we have here are very smart birds, though I really do not "listen" to them as I do the Raven. After seeing the all the Ravens in a small clearing it did not take Guy long to stop the truck and off I went into the brush. Guy seen a little of what the Ravens were doing, this was running off the eagles. There were two eagles. One was a big Golden Eagle, the other was a young smaller Bald Eagle. Many of these two species of eagles are showing up together these days. I have not noticed this in years past, but this year WOW has this been obvious! The Golden Eagle standing on the prey is the first thing we noticed after the Ravens. The prey I could not identify. Did I want to identify it, not really!! It was white and it appeared to have died some time ago. One thing people do not understand about Eagles, the Golden Eagle and the Bald Eagle is, they will take a meal whether they themselves hunted it down, or if it died by some other means. Eagles will do their best to steal prey as well. The species of eagles are opportunists. They can be scavengers. The Raven were doing the best they could to run off the Eagles, but the Golden Eagle was having no part of being ran off by Ravens! The young Bald Eagle was trying to grab some of the meal when I was getting close, but took off up into a tree to watch. These are the photographs of this event.

I am very pleased to get these shots of this Northern Harrier. I got these a couple hours ago down the road where we have seen this bird and another or so in a pasture. These birds have been seen on private land and I do not trespass so when this opportunity arose today, while this Northern Harrier was not on the private land I took it! While doing my research on this bird I came to realize why this bird of prey had a problem being still for me. Blending in is what I try to do with the environment, but being quiet is another story. This bird realize on hearing as much as sight when hunting. This bird was hearing me coming! The male and female of the species look very different I found out as well. This Harrier is the male of the species. I thought this Northern Harrier was on some prey, however after looking over the photographs it appears to be on some grasses.

Laurent Ponce came back, in last January, from a trip in Myanmar. To remember forever the faces of the people he met there and who have marked him deeply, he did a series of portraits showing inhabitants and passer-by he ran into. He explains that although it's an evolving country, the people still live a traditional life. For instance, they wear longyi (long skirt), puts thanaka (white-yellow cosmetic powder), hunt and fishing, and chew plants called Betels.

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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.