Fast food

A bullfrog uses its long sticky tongue to capture a grasshopper in a cattle watering trough on a farm near Elkton in rural wester Oregon on Friday, May 7, 2021. When a bullfrog attacks prey it completes the strike and retrieval in approximately 0.07 seconds. Photo was taken with a fast shutter speed of 1/4000th of a second. 

 

COVID 19 pop-up clinic video

 Last week I shot and produced a video at the Coles Valley Vineyard COVID19 vaccine clinic. The vineyard partnered with the Douglas County Public Health Network to hold a pop-up clinic for local agricultural workers. I really enjoy adding video production into my work.

Don't go in the water

A bullfrog bites off more than he can chew in a cattle watering trough in southwestern Oregon...

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The power of one

 

A small ant climbs a pebble while crossing a dirt road along with hundreds of other ants from its colony on a hillside near Elkton in rural western Oregon on Thursday, April 29, 2021.

Road warrior

A large Pacific banana slug rears up while crossing a rain soaked road near Elkton in  rural western Oregon.

 

Striper fishing in Oregon

Fishermen cast for striped bass at the mouth of the Smith River near Reedsport in far western Oregon on Friday, April 23, 2021. According to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, striped bass, which are native to the Atlantic Ocean, were transplanted to the west coast as far back as the 1870’s.

 

This old fishing boat

A derelict fishing boat sits abandoned in a slough along the Umpqua River near Reedsport in southwester Oregon on Friday, April 23, 2021. Reedsport is fishing and logging community situated at the mouth of the Umpqua River.