Rick Cameron

You can reach me via email at . I always enjoy hearing from people who've enjoyed visiting here. I'm an amateur photographer living in Portland, Oregon and run this web site just for fun.

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GALLERY

For those who are curious as to what I look like ...

	Buzzing It was my last day at Yellowstone, the end of over a week of hiking amongst the fall colors and diverse wildlife of the Tetons and Yellowstone. It was an amazing day at the end of an amazing trip, I had hiked until the end of the day and was going to drive to western Montana before finishing the drive to Oregon the next day. Having just spent a couple of hours watching a group of bighorn sheep on the Rescue Creek Trail, I was positively buzzing on the hike back to the car. My mind was racing and I may have even been mumbling incoherently, and maybe even out loud. Not normally a good sign, but I was just buzzing from the events of the week. 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.
	I'll only say this: you just can't work with some people ...
	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.

	From the Baskett Butte Trail at Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon's Willamette Valley.
	From the top of Mount Washburn in Yellowstone National Park. 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, I wasn't about to carry the tripod on that hike. 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.