Oregon South Coast

More from the beautiful Oregon Coast at Hug Point.

John Day Oregon

This area of John Day is called the Painted Hills. The minerals in the soil give the hills a beautiful red color that looks like someone painted colors right onto them. It's quite stunning.

Mini Waterfall

Near Silver Falls State Park in Oregon. There over 8 miles of beautiful trails leading to large waterfalls. We took a short hike and I saw this little beauty.

Signs

I love signs--old and retro to bright neon. I have taken scores of sign photos and will do future postings, until then please enjoy these.

Hells Canyon and Eastern Oregon

Eastern Oregon--one of my favorite places to visit.

School project

This collage is from a school project where I created a Daguerreotype photo before and after. Of course we did not do the actual process, we have photoshop for that! It was a very interesting and fun project.

A Daguerreotype (original French: daguerréotype) is one of the earliest photographic processes, developed by Jacques Daguerre, in which the image is formed by amalgam i.e. a combination of mercury and silver. Mercury vapor from a pool of heated mercury is used to develop the plate that consists of a copper plate with a thin coating of silver rolled in contact that has previously been sensitised in iodine vapor (later sensitivity was increased by using the other halides - chlorine and bromine to form silver chloride and silver bromide crystals reducing the exposure time to about one minute.

Dago info via.