A Few Recent Pics (not 3-D)

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65 ft Young's River Falls (Astoria, OR)

From the mouth of the Columbia River we can see Mt. St. Helen's 130 (or so) miles away. Right above the river's horizon, you can make out the 4+ mile-long Astoria-Megler bridge.

Sunset @ Sunset Beach, OR (fairly close to the actual colors)

A point of clarification: The first and last pictures (the best pictures on this blog) we actually taken by my brother-in-law. The pictures I took of the same subjects with my point-and-shoot didn't capture the color as well as his camera did (you can kind of tell by comparing the middle picture).

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Oceancolor Painting

Above is an attempted watercolor adaptation of the Arcadia Beach (Oregon Coast) sunset picture (shown below). It was the first water color I've done since High School.

One thing I notice about watercolors (other than, by nature, its kind of a visually clumbsy and/or light & delicate) is you kind of have to adapt if, for example, you make the bird too big. :-)

If you step back a few hundred feet and take off your glasses, the painting almost looks real. :-)