Coastal d'Lights: What Fogarty's fossils look like. . .

Sunday, June 17, 2012

What Fogarty's fossils look like. . .

Together with five other Oregon photographers I am starting my first month of a lifestyle blogging project entitled "What ___________ looks like," an idea inspired by a group of photographers out of Montana. On the third Monday of each month I will fill in the blank with my own word or concept, and link to the next photographer's blog until the circle is complete. I hope you take the time to enjoy this monthly photographic journey, and enjoy each of our monthly projects.

What {Fogarty's fossils} look like

My favorite place to photograph on the coast is the beach at Fogarty Creek State Park. A good sunrise brightening up the iconic rock pile is a marvelous sight but the other subjects that get my visual heart pumping are Fogarty’s fossils.

When the tide is low, you can walk north between the cliffs and the tide pools and find rocks that have been holding tightly to their clam shell captives for something like 15,000,000 years!

Now head on over to my daughter's site and see what she's been up to this month:

Kimberly Teichrow Photography

5 comments:

Alisa HayesJune 18, 2012 at 12:27 PM
Beautiful images...makes me want to take a trip to the coast!
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Kimberly Teichrow PhotographyJune 18, 2012 at 5:37 PM
Great work, Dad! Proud of you for being "out there...' (though, I always knew you were... "out there!" lol)
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UnknownJune 18, 2012 at 5:59 PM
So glad Kim shared your blog site with us! We look forward to checking it out each month.
-The Rensels
Hans, Tangie, McKenna, Demye, & Christian
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KimmyJune 19, 2012 at 4:05 PM
Beautiful... truly. ~ kim
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About Gary

Who am I? Husband to Judy, father to Todd and Kim and Grampa to a bunch of very neat kids.

Judy and I retired to Montana ten years ago and, of course, things don’t always go as planned so here we are on the Oregon Coast. I was born in Santa Cruz, California so returning to the beach has been an easy transition and while it rains a lot (a LOT) we do enjoy not having to fight snow and black ice every winter.

I bought my first “real” camera, a Nikon F, in 1971, to photograph my children. A few years later, I was teaching teachers how to use photography in their classrooms. I burned out on cameras after a while and took a break from it for about 15 years. When digital cameras became popular, I bought an early model and began to really enjoy photography again.

Thanks to my old friend, Jim Brick (Brooks Institute of Photography grad and tech wizard) and my wondrous daughter, I’m using very good equipment: Canon camera, Mac computer, and Lightroom 4. The problem with having good equipment is you have zero excuses for your product.

I’m afraid I don’t have a grand philosophy driving my photography, I just do it because I love doing it! I like the light and what it does to whatever I see.