Author Archives: Lorelle VanFossen
Letter to Those Desiring a Career in Nature and Travel Photography
On a regular basis I get emails and comments from students attracted to the photography bug. To them, photography represents the exotic, exciting, and adventurous. While there are some aspects that involve travel, adventure, and excitement, for the most part photography as a hobby is fun. Photography as a business is hard work and boring. […]
Water Droplets on Sheet Web
Just as there are many types of spiders, there are many types of webs. A favorite of ours is the sheet web. Lying flat across plants and grasses, Brent and I are impressed by these diligent web makers as they work on the horizontal rather than vertical. Our front “yard” filled with knick-knick, Oregon Grape, […]
Backlighting Devil’s Club Overhead
Traveling to Seattle, a friend and I went to the John Bastyr School for one of their health and herbal festivals. A nature walk through the forest next to the campus intrigued me. It was incredibly informative, discussing how to use plants in the wilderness for medical treatments and health. The Pacific Northwest forest was […]
Flash Isolates Natural Subject
This dried thistle head in the Painted Hills of Oregon caught my attention with its textures and lines. I’ve always loved thistles, alive and vital with their fluffy tops, and dried out cone-like structures of mystery and pattern. To isolate this thistle, I used flash to force the background to go to black. The flash […]
Exploring Painted Hills in Oregon
A few years ago, my mother and I went on a genealogy romp through Oregon trying to track down the records of my family. We swung out into Eastern Oregon to one of my favorite nature parks, Painted Hills. I’ve photographed it for many years. Here are a few of the choice images from that […]
Photographing the Moon Eclipse 2008
It was freezing cold outside. And dark. Not the kind of dark that just comes with night but the dark that happens when the earth passes between the sun and the moon. It was February 20, 2008, and I was in our new temporary home in Gaston, Oregon, an hour west of Portland, in time […]
Where the hell is Lorelle?
Like a game, Lorelle bounces around the world and the web. Here is a new listing of all the places where you can find Lorelle, and hopefully she will recover from speaking in third person soon. Lorelle on WordPress: This is now considered my “main” site. It covers all things WordPress, blogging, web publishing, and […]
Finding Vegetarian and Raw Food Sources Near Beaverton, Oregon
I’m finally starting to explore our new neighborhood near Hillsboro, Oregon. My new quest is to find healthy and organic local produce and natural foods stores, and some good ethnic groceries so I can eat with healthy recipes from all over the world. Here are some resources I uncovered on the web to help me […]
Lorelle’s World as of April 12th, 2012
The following is a snippet of Lorelle’s online world published weekly. Lorelle VanFossen published Lorelle’s World as of March 30th, 2012.