Bob Keefer
Is a writer and photographer who lives in rural Oregon. This is an informal blog with no particular purpose other than to give myself something to do with some of the welter of photographs I take each day.
For more considered work, see my hand-colored photography at BobKeeferPhoto.com.
You can email me at bob/at/bkpix.com.
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Noah with beard
He’s just returned from three months in Antarctica, where I guess he forgot to shave.
photo: Noah with beard, 2009
Tree portraits
Trees are as much individuals as animals and people are. I’ve had it in the back of my mind for a while to try doing some straightforward tree portraits, or even some not straightforward ones, as I roam around the forest here.
This is a start. Nothing fancy, nothing dramatic, and not even, to tell you the truth, very interesting. I have nowhere to go but up. I believe there is a lot of up to explore, however, so I’ll be shooting plenty more of these and—who knows?—I might even get better.
photo: Tree portrait 1
Downtown Eugene, Friday night
Friday night downtown: Nothing much going on except for the fog.
I’ve been loving the 21/3.2 lens. Shooting with it on the K20D is like real photography again. Simple. Direct. Like an old Brownie, but with great quality.
The New York Times has an incredible photo essay on Obama’s staff and supporters here. Makes me want to get busy on portraits again.
The fun thing is to look at each portrait and figure out what the person’s connection is, without reading the text.
His people are geekier than I had realized.
photo: Eugene Friday night, 2009