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Bikini Skiing. Good way to get a tan. Lake Billy Chinook Oregon. We watched this women ski for a while. Our area is known for nature and outdoors. People come here to take advantage of our wide open spaces.

Thistle weed is a very common weed. At one time we did not see thistle here in the high desert as we do now. It spreads very well. Mainly horses or cattle who......

According to the rules - "Photographer and the subject should be active participants in the construction of the situation" Ie. staged shots, taken outdoors.

Whomever tried to keep the roof up to date, kind of. At one time while at this spot a doe jumped out of one of those windows scaring the crap out of me since it ran right by me.

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Osprey Fishing At Lake Billy Chinook Oregon. This spot is a hot spot for birds, bald eagles, osprey all sorts of birds use this spot for fishing.

Butterfly On A Thistle Flower

Central Oregon Crawdad. I love seeing wildlife in our waters, means our waters here in Oregon are healthy. Found this and other crawdad's in the South Fork of the Crooked River. I left them be to live and produce more crawdads.

Black Cat Crosses My Path.

Mare Horse. We were checking fence line and the pasture and she just had to follow us around.

Central Oregon View

Tree Reflections

Sunrise In Central Oregon. We usually head into Madras, than head to Prineville Oregon to go up in the Ochoco Mountains. This is what the sky looked like heading to Prineville Oregon Saturday.

Night photography refers to photographs taken outdoors between dusk and dawn. Night photographers generally have a choice between using artificial light or using a long exposure, exposing the scene for seconds or even minutes, in order to give the film enough time to capture a usable image, and to compensate for reciprocity failure.

Some days the Mule Deer show themselves, while other days they do not. Saturday was a day to show themselves, and it just happened to be a snowy day here in the high desert. The buck was funny, he did hide his head, or tried the best he could at first. After some time of just watching him, snapping some photographs he must of figured I was ok and not there to hurt him for he came out in the open long enough for me to get quite a few shots, adjusting my lens as I went. With his breath seen and the one antler looking like it does.... he is unique looking! The does and the older fawn stopped long enough for me to snap some photographs as well. For those new to Mule Deer. The Mule Deer are very big deer. They are called Mule Deer due to their very large ears.

Sunday was a amazing day for Bald Eagles! My post Young Bald Eagle was the first sighting of this happening.

I was down in the canyon, see the hawk photographs, when something caught my eye. The little guy made it obvious that I was being followed.

We found ourselves the only ones down in the canyon and came across these mule deer taking it easy. As you can see they really did not want to get up!