It's time to see what you have been up to lately. I know that some of you must have a new print to share or maybe we should talk about where you like to go to eat when you're out photographing?
I know that I go to a scottish restaurant called "McDonalds"

I am so far behind my projected projects that I have been limiting myself to 1 time a day on the internet to check email and look quickly at apug groups. I am getting old so I have to decide if I am going to push harder to catch up with my wants or should I just invest in a few cases of single malt scotch and a tent and go out in a fog rather than a blaze of glory.

But I do have a lot on my art plate right now. Trying to make sense of a ton of work I did with my Rolleiflex in the last 18 months. Figuring out how I want to print it and how I want to show it or stow it. Also I am working on a couple series of 8x10 still life images for platinum printing. In the meantime I am designing my art section for my web site in an effort to make it more sales friendly and sort of catalogy. Plus there is this 100 year old house I live in with Amy that is in complete disrepair that I spent all last week stripping wall paper out of the living room and the entry way and of course the garden is calling.

So clearly spending 2 hours a day on various web sites and forums is about as stupid as can be. Perhaps a couple steps stupider than spending the last of my meager savings on Scotch.
Dennis

Generally, I will toss in a couple of food bars into my pack and head into the redwoods all day. I don't seem to get hungry as I walk through the tress or along the creek. But at the end of the day I will stop in Orick and buy a couple Moon Pies and a bottle or two of beer and drive a little farther south to the beach. Walking along the beach or just sitting there is a nice way to wind down from quietly intense experience of photographing...and a nice way to prepare myself for the 50 mile drive home and the house full of now-12 year old boys.

If I have the boys with me (often the case these days), I limit myself to one beer and the boys get a treat and they expend the last of their energy on the sand.

But right now I am consumed with prepping for my carbon workshop in Yosemite...that is when I am not taking three boys to baseball practices or games (two different teams) and other family stuff.

Vaughn

While photographing down on the Northern half of the Oregon Coast, a bowl of Mo's chowder goes a long way after being out in the cold and rain.

On the northern half of the Oregon coast you are going to probably find me at Bill's tavern in Canon Beach after dark. A really good micro brew and good food.

When I am on the northern Oregon Coast I usually stop at the Grateful Bread, in Pacific City. They have fabulous homemade bakery goods and daily lunch and dinner specials. As far as photography pursuits I have had a long term item on my do list: Scan old BW pictures. Well I am going to take a class from Newspace Center for Photography, in Portland on the 19th. I should be then able to do a credible job of saving them to an external hard drive and "fix" (folds, cracks, and fades etc.) them in Photoshop CS2. I have also ordered some BW film and am planning to go to a regional "All Natural" body building event in mid April. There is usually a posing event during the day that welcomes photographers.

Robert, there was a Saturday Night Live skit where a fellow declares "If it is not Scottish, its crap!" Well, Micky D is the exception!LOL! If I must stop at that type of eatery, I go for the King...sometimes stopping somewhere to quickly fill the bellies of my three devourers of food is a act of pure self-preservation!

But I am taking notes about other Oregonian eateries for my next trip up the coast!

Vaughn

Vaughn
For a good breakfast along the coast - the "Pig and Pancake" in Cannon Beach, Seaside, Astoria can't be beat ...I've not tried the locations in Portland, Newport, Lincoln City.

And there is Camp 18 on 26 about 15 miles east of Seaside. You can view all the rusting logging equipment including yarders, skidders and some minor railroad relics.

Your three boys won't go away hungry...

Good morning;

Doogers in Seaside is one that I usually visit when we are there for the annual ham radio gathering in early June. Also the latte stand next to the carousel inside the little mall by the Convention Center. I started buying coffee and lattes from them back in the days when I was buying kites from the old kite shop that used to be in there. This coming June I think we will be staying at the Shiloh Inn. Their in-house restaurant is also pretty good. Mo's Chowder at their various locations is always good on a colder winter oceanside day along the Oregon Coast. For the optimum Mo's experience, you need to go to Newport and wait in the line outside on the sidewalk and be seated at a table with other guests who may be from Narragansett or Hackensack or Pax or Saint Augustine. A neat place.

Enjoy; Ralph Javins

Yes, there is also a Doogers in Canon Beach and one in Astoria at the south end of the bridge in Warrenton area). Good seafood dinners. The Mo's in Newport -- you'll want the ultimate experience of going to the former garage where they started (north side of the street) instead of going to the south side in the "new" annex (South side is the bay side). I won't be at Seapac this year....

I like some sea food but more a pasta kind of guy. Anything, south of Newport?
Also lets not for get brews. I happen to be a Guiness fan.

Robert did you happen to go to that Irish Pub just down the street from the meeting building in Newport? Amy and I had a good time sitting at the counter drinking a couple guinesses looking at the maps they have laminated on the bar. I didn't try the food but it looked like a place that would have good food.
Dennis

What?!
I only thought of the Rogue brewery thats the big business in Newport. That's where I went last year during the gathering. Had their version of Guiness and it was good but a bit powerful. I had to have a glass of water and stay a bit longer to where off the buzz. Had a good time then!

For the south coast, there is a great breakfast place in Gold Beach - not fancy, just good breakfasts. Its near the corner of 2nd and 101, on the west side of the street. Big place - you can't miss it, but I can't think of the name. Maybe someone down that way -- Vaughn?

And if you make it to Crescent City, there are quite a number of good seafood places.

Vaughn -- when you come up this way, I presume you take the quick way - heading in from Crescent City to Grants Pass. Along the road (199), if you haven't stopped at the "botanical wayside" just east of Gasquet (look for the brown NFS sign on the left a couple of miles east of the district ranger station). Take the short walk to the overlook of the meadow filled with Darlingtonia. (Pitcher Plant).
A second good place to view Darlingtonia is the Darlingtonia Wayside just off 101 as you head north out of Florence.

Don, the Florence one I have been to. I have driven the Hwy 199 to Hwy 5 route so many times that I prefer the coastal route if I have the time. But I'll try to stop off there in Gasquet one of these days -- usually that seems to early in the trip for a long stop if I am heading north (usually to Spokane).

Vaughn

Good morning, Don, et al;

Don, you will be missed at Seaside.

So Mo's is no longer in the building on the dirt side of the road? Only the annex now on the water side of the road? That is a real loss. Part of the joy of going there was the wondering who they would seat you with. There was not a lot of room in the old place, and they did ask that their customers be willing to share the limited table space. It was a remarkably effective way to get people to talk with each other.

Enjoy; Ralph Javins

Ralph
In Newport, there are both the old garage on the dirt side, and the annex across the street (bay side, hanging over the water I think)

Yes, they do that in most of them when they are filled, and when they seat a small party at a huge table. Sometimes the conversation (and peole ) are great, other times we've experienced crusty old people that are sour as sour mash (I knew a moonshiner in the hills of Virginia when I went to school...)

I see no one has any new prints to share. What do I have to do?! Hold my breath until I pass out or something?

http://www.pbase.com/dpurdy/newport_oregon

Well I can post this stuff from the meeting in Newport though I posted it awhile ago and got zip zero response like it was invisible or something. Actually I came to the conclusion that it must not be anyone's cup of tea. I have done quite a bit of work since but my scanner isn't hooked up right now.
Dennis

Gee, Dennis.
I never saw the work. I happen to like the sand dunes. Did you drive all the way south to get your wonderful images or were these actually at Newport? I have some rolls I did of the rocks there and a star fish but nothing as neet as what you have. I noticed they are square format. Medium format or did you crop?
Nice stuff.
Tell me about Pbase.com?

Thanks Robert. That work is all right there at Agate beach or even closer. I got up early every morning and walked down there from the Waves motel with my TLR Rolleiflex and shot everything with a red filter and f16.
Pbase is a good place because it is cheap and easy to load images to and you get a lot of looks. I have something like 67,000 hits there now. They don't complain about traffic or anything. For my art web site I am actually stealing all the thumbnail images they automatically create. It is a lot easier to let them make the thumbs than to do it myself and they turn out well. I can't really think of a good reason not to use pbase because it is so cheap and easy and you get the exposure.
Dennis

Thanks for the heads up on the Pbase. I'll have to check it out. You should post an image or two on the Pacific Northwest gallery.