>Boyd Through Beer Goggles

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Young Utah photographer Chris Detrick shot this photo of me as he was passing through Eugene. Detrick used this new "Beer Filter" (patent pending) to create an ethereal glow emitting from the tiny strobe of his digital ELPH. This exciting new technology is achieved by holding a pint glass of Hefeweizen up to the strobe. The technique is best executed in the close proximity a pub table affords.

>Me: The Lost Polaroids

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Back in 1992, I assisted for Portland photographer, Steve Bloch. On occassion he would have me sit in for a test. I kept some of the roids and just recently ran across them. This was 14 years ago. I was 26-years-old. I'll do the math for you. I'm 40 now.

>Kim and Steve Arrive

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I shot my neighbor Kim's wedding yesterday. She married Steve who's a sports reporter at the paper I work at. This is the moment they arrived to a full party from the church. It was a great time. They rented out the entire Waterfront Restaurant. Very nice.

>Oregon Oklahoma Slideshow

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Click on the link above to see the staff photos from the game.

>Friday Night Football

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Here's a snap from before the South Eugene vs. North Eugene football game Friday night.

>Shark Attack!

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Here's a snap from our trip to the Oregon Coast Aquarium.

>Birthday Card Invitations

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Every year I shoot portraits of the kids for their birthday card invitations. Here they are for their eighth birthday. Cole had his at the bowling alley and Greta had a pottery painting party.

>Football Preview Slideshow

>I shot some of the Oregon football players for the season preview. The photo above is Jonathan Stewart. Click on the link above to see the entire slideshow. Kevin Clark shot the cover showing Dennis Dixon.

>Cole Whittles

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Here's another shot from Camp Baker of Cole whittling with his new authentic Boy Scout knife.

>The Old New Carissa

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As promised, here's a photo the New Carissa as it sits today after running aground Feb. 4, 1999.

It's also in keeping with my "boats sitting in the water without people" theme.

>Boy Scout Camp

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Cole and I spent three days and nights at Camp Baker. It's a Boy Scout camp on Siltcoos Lake. He had a great time and so did I. I even managed to make a decent photo.

>Cole Shoots Me

>I took Cole to the beach while I shot the shipwreck of New Carissa near my home town of North Bend, Ore. We stayed out after dark and Cole took a snap of me with my camera as I worked. He's got potential. I'll post the photo I took in a few days after it runs in the paper.

>String Cheese Incident

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Here's a snap from the String Cheese Incident concert I shot the other night. It's during a break and they had these really strange lights moving randomly out into the audience. I've never seen anything quite like it. It really reminded of the scene Close Encounters when the space ship lands.

>Animal Magnetism

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Click on the link above to see a series of portraits I shot of 4H kids and their animals. And yes, that's "Mishchief" the pants eating hog I wrote about earlier.

>Spherical Rock

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Rarely do I feel compelled to photograph rocks, trees, moss, or anything else in nature. It's simply not very visually interesting to me. Most other landscape photography doesn't interest me either. But, today I could not help myself. I was standing on the bank of the Row River near Cottage Grove, Oregon. The bedrock is exposed in most of the river from aggressive gold mining in the past. On one of these rocky protrusions I saw this almost perfectly spherical rock sitting in a bowl-shaped depression. This is an area that many people visit in the summer. In the winter it would be covered by water. This rock was obviously shapen by tumbling and swirling around in the bowl underwater all winter. It amazed me that no one had taken the rock from the bowl. It amazed me that the rock must have been tumbling around in that depression for at least an entire winter. This also means that most likely, it would only take one winter to shape the rock. I would also surmise that any spherical rock one would find would have to be shaped in a similar way.

Coincidently, this also happens to be the spot on the river where Buster Keaton intentionally crashed a steam locomotive as part of a stunt for the silent film, The General.

I know this still not very interesting, but sometimes it's not a bad thing to ponder the details. And, in case you are wondering, I left the rock.

>Alf and the Greek

>I was going through some older scans and found this.

>Fourth of July Pix

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Here's a few pictures from Chris and Therese Pietsch's epic Fourth of July party in their backyard.

>More Rodeo

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>Eugene Pro Rodeo

>We took the kids to the rodeo and I shot a few snaps from the stands.

>Murderous Swine

>I'm shooting a story on 4-H kids and their animals. When it came time to shoot the hog portion of the story, I went to a nice family's house near Crow, Oregon. I told them it would be best to select the most well-behaved hog for the shoot. They chose "Mischief". Mischief is a 1000 pound boar Hampshire hog. He is the size of a living room sofa.

We were doing pretty good positioning him by coaxing him with food and nudging him into place. Then, I decided to "nudge" him with my thigh. He didn't like it too much, evidently, because he ate my pants. He snapped his head around attempting to grab my leg in his teeth. I pulled back in the nick of time and he just caught the inner leg of my Prison Blues work pants. His teeth punctured the denin and he jerked on it leaving a 14-inch rip in the leg.

My pants are destroyed, but luckily, he didn't get the flesh. I'm quite sure it would have meant a trip to the hospital provided I didn't bleed out right there in the pig slop. At the very least, I would have screamed like a little girl.