Info About Rick Cameron

Rick Cameron

You can reach me via email at or keep up with the latest pictures at Boolie's Blog (Boolie is an old college nickname). I'm an amateur photographer living in Portland, Oregon and run this website just for fun, I started it back in 1996 while a graduate student at Virginia Tech. If you'd like to use any of the pictures from this site, please read my policy on use of images first.

Boolie & the Animals

Rick Cameron playing with his dog Ellie in the backyard

Ellie & Smelly

The title for this picture comes from little Sam, who is skating on thin ice I assure you.

He asked me today if I knew which part of Ellie I most smelled like. I said no but to consider his answer carefully and reminded him who plays countless hours of String with him. He deliberated far longer than I thought necessary, eyes darting between me and Ellie, before finally answering "Why the sweetest part of course!"

I don't know the answer he originally had in mind, but given where he was staring, I can guess well enough.

I would not say such things if I were you!

Boolie in Yellowstone

Rick Cameron at the trailhead of the Rescue Creek Trail in Yellowstone National Park

Buzzing

It was my last day at Yellowstone, the end of over a week of hiking in the fall colors and diverse wildlife of the Tetons and Yellowstone. It was an amazing day at the end of an amazing trip, after watching elk in Mammoth Hot Springs I spent a couple of hours watching a group of bighorn sheep on the Rescue Creek Trail. On the return hike to the car, I was positively buzzing, my mind was racing and I may have been mumbling incoherently, and maybe even out loud.

I don't know why I threw my arms out to the side, it made sense at the time. Maybe not sense exactly, but it felt right.

I tried something a little different here, I would have preferred my head was higher in the frame but I couldn't see what I was doing when I took the picture. A digicam with a flip-out LCD and wireless remote would have been a much better solution than my SLR, but you work with what you have. I was still pretty pleased with how this picture turned out.

You just can't work with some people …

Rick Cameron at the top of Mount Washburn in Yellowstone National Park

From the top of Mount Washburn. I'm not used to hiking at that elevation and definitely felt a little light-headed by the time I got to the top. It was hard enough carrying my cameras and lenses so I wasn't about to carry the tripod on that hike (this was before I had my lightweight carbon fibre tripod). A picnic table at the observatory served as a handy substitute.

Wind Chill

Another view from the top of Mount Washburn, this time in late September instead of mid-July. A slight change in weather conditions, from hot and mercilessly sunny to cool and mercilessly windy. The picnic tables had long since been packed up, I suppose to make it easier to clear out the snow drifts which would be arriving soon. I set the camera by the building and was going to take a close-up shot as well, but with the wind I decided one was enough. A least you can get a feel for the kind of view you have from the top.

Boolie at the Slough

Rick Cameron on the Baskett Butte Trail at Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge

Baskett Slough was the first park I visited in Oregon and I think this was the first self-portrait I took after my wife got me a digital camera. This is taken from the Baskett Butte Trail near the top of a hill that overlooks much of Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge. The Slough was one of my favorite hangouts when I was living in Keizer, but I don't visit very often now that we live farther away in Portland. Even so, this little refuge will always hold a special place in my heart.

Revisiting an Old Friend

Another from the Baskett Butte Trail. We had already moved to Portland at this point and the Slough was too far away for the frequent visits of old, but I still make the occasional pilgrimage to visit my old friend.

	Buzzing It was my last day at Yellowstone, the end of over a week of hiking in the fall colors and diverse wildlife of the Tetons and Yellowstone. It was an amazing day at the end of an amazing trip, after watching elk in Mammoth Hot Springs I spent a couple of hours watching a group of bighorn sheep on the Rescue Creek Trail. On the return hike to the car, I was positively buzzing, my mind was racing and I may have been mumbling incoherently, and maybe even out loud. I don't know why I threw my arms out to the side, it made sense at the time. Maybe not sense exactly, but it felt right.
	I tried something a little different here, I would have preferred my head was higher in the frame but I couldn't see what I was doing when I took the picture. A digicam with a flip-out LCD and wireless remote would have been a much better solution than my SLR, but you work with what you have. I was still pretty pleased with how this picture turned out.
	You just can't work with some people …