Category : Oregon

A Return to the U.S. Last night my wife and I enjoyed a couple of cold pale ales at a little, tucked-away brewery along the Columbia River in Oregon. It’s been 3 years since we were last in the region, and I have to say, it’s lovely to be back. I spent last weekend speaking […]

New Journal 52 – No Entry Today This is just a quick post today, wishing everyone a good weekend 🙂   Today’s Photo – Sunset at Cannon beach This is actually a composite of two photos. I took the sky from a separate photo (one I took and own), and added into the shot of […]

New Journal 50 – The curse of the miserable face I remember when I was a wee lad on the streets of Newcastle. I’d just finished delivering papers on a Sunday morning and I’d rewarded myself with two pots of yoghurt. I ate a lot of yoghurt as a kid – spent most of my […]

New Journal 43 – Is tone mapping dead? I received an email yesterday that was just one of many communications I’ve seen this week that has been about the same thing: the idea that surreal tone mapping is becoming less popular. I won’t use the term ‘tone mapping’ as liberally as others since each software […]

New Journal 42 – Cannon Beach My feet were cold. Despite the warm weather to be had in Portland, Cannon beach had a distinctive chill to it. I’d been wading in and out of the ocean for about 45 minutes.  The conditions weren’t exactly Arctic but all I could feel was a constant pins and […]