WetLeather Motorcycle Rider Information

CJ and I went on our annual elk hunting trip to the Silvies unit of the Ochoco National Forest in eastern Oregon last week. Due to major fires in the Ochoco last summer the patterns of both animals and hunters changed dramatically so we had no luck hunting for bulls this year. In fact the only person in our whole party to even see any elk was me (I came across a herd of 30-40 while driving the truck to a meeting spot), and I didn't have a rifle or tag. But we did have a great time camping, hiking around, and enjoying the country.

I brought my trusty Canon rangefinder with me and snapped the below photos, among others. For some reason I did most of my shooting with wider f-stops, probably because I still had shallow DOF on the brain from Photo Challenge #2. This resulted in a lot of blurry shots as I snapped photos at 1/30 or 1/60 when I should have been shooting at 1/250 or 1/500. 

CJ tries to stay warm on a chilly high desert morning.

An old outhouse in the middle of nowhere. 

This is the remains of a rotting log and I thought it would make an interesting desktop background. But it turns out that icons are completely devoured by this image. 

Evening settles on our camp. This was a three second exposure at f1.7. 

I set up the tripod inside the tent and experimented with various exposure lengths.  

Yours truly. I set up the lens, handed the camera to CJ and said, "Snap a picture." I think he is better at framing than I am.