White Rhododendron

Back to the spring flower thing. This rhododendron is enormous and a great producer of blooms year to year. The mother bush.

Here is a close up of some of her babies taken in the black of night. The long exposure lends an other worldly texture to the photo.

The Big Moon

May 5, 2012, the full moon rises over Coos Bay. The moon was closer to Earth than it had been in twenty years. Scientists and others argued back and forth over whether this moon would appear bigger than others. What do you think? Maybe if could have shot it coming out of the sea, you know, right next to the horizon. Beautiful it was, if not bigger.

The moon event gave me a chance to practice "night photography", which I'm going to do a lot of this summer.