Thank you.

Thank you once again my friend; however, there are five renderings posted, not four. :mrgreen:

Thank you.

Thank you for looking, and for your kind comments.

Ken

The other two images. . .

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During an interesting walk about the historic gold rush town of Mokelumne Hill last Thursday morning, I found this old Dodge Truck, tucked in between two buildings. While this truck has clearly been in this spot for many years, I somehow never spotted it in my other trips to Mokelumne Hill.

Another case of walking and looking rules the day!

Here are five different views of this grand old truck, and the rust that holds it together!

Your comments are, as always, most welcome and appreciated.

Ken

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Thank you my Oregon friend. I am sure you know who Ray Atkeson was (he died in 1990).

I think you jumped in before I got all of the images in this series uploaded.

Let's just go ahead and finish this series with these final four images.

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From my infrared camera. . .

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Also from my infrared camera. . .

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Here are three more from this series. . .

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Ray Atkenson should be known to any landscape photographer. Ray began photographing the west, most notably the northwest, in 1928 with his large format camera.

He did the iconic photography in those large coffee table books; e.g., “Oregon”; “Oregon II”; “Washington”; to name just a few. Many of you might even have one or more of his books on your book shelves.

Ray lived in Oregon, and was named “Photographer Laureate of Oregon” sometime in the late 70’s. During the 80’s I lived in Oregon and belonged to the Tryon Creek Photo Club, which held its meetings at the Tryon Creek State Park. . .where my home in Lake Oswego backed up to. Ray was a frequent visitor and speaker at our club meetings, allowing me the honor of meeting and getting to know this fine Master Photographer and gentleman.

One of my favorite images of Ray’s was taken of some sheep in the Willamette Valley many years ago, that is so very haunting and powerful. Some of you may know of the image that I speak; however, most will likely not.

Last Thursday I did an early morning “freelance” photo trip heading north along historic Hwy 49. One leg of the trip was where I dropped down to Poole Station Road out of Angels Camp, taking this back road north to where it once again met with Hwy 49 just north of San Andreas. Along this road there were many rolling spring green hills, many flocks of wild turkeys, and this one wonderful sheep ranch.

Here are some of my images that I took of the sheep, in my less than adequate homage to my old mentor and friend Ray Atenson.

I believe that I have ten images in this series, that I have put my artistic style of PP on eight from my big camera, and two from my infrared camera. By the way, the sheep dog was fast asleep the entire time!

I look forward to hearing your comments and/or questions with regard to this series of images.

Ken

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Looks like you had a fun day with the grandkids. You seem to post images from my neck of the woods quite a bit; however, I don't know where this Japanese Garden is located????

Let me assist a touch with your location and your thread's heading of "Wind Surfing on the Hood River".

Hood River is a town on the Columbia River, in the Gorge east of Portland, Oregon. The actual windsurfing is done on the Columbia River, there in the Columbia Gorge (between Washington and Oregon). Hood River is a town on the Oregon side of the Columbia River.

This area is known as the windsurfing capital of the world, due to the strong winds in the area.


Ken

Thank you very much for all of your kind comments.

Dixiegirl thank you for your kind comments.

Here is another from the Iris series. . .

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Thank you once again my friend for looking and your kind comments.

Ken