Veteran's Day Parade | Downtown Bend 2010

Hey all! I know it's been a long, long time since I've updated Bend Oregon Photos. I'm Sorry!

Well, I was walking through Downtown Bend to and saw the 2010 Veteran's Day parade going on. If you've spent anytime in Bend, then you'll know that Bend Oregon is no stranger to a parade.

Today's was pretty cool. Veterans of all ages were on floats, marching, and even driving some old, classic cars. There was even an appearance by Batman. What?

The Batmobile in Downtown Bend?

There were some old timers driving some old cars around as well. I was able to snap a picture of couple as they were rounding the corner downtown from Newport Ave. to Wall St. They had those old time horns and using them like crazy.

He must be headed to Robert's on Wall.

From Newport Ave to Wall Street in Downtown Bend

My apologies for picture quality... they were snapped my cell phone.

Bend Oregon|Clyde McKay River Park

Clyde McKay River Park in Bend Oregon

Clyde McKay River Park
166 Shevlin Hixon Drive
Bend, OR 97702

I went messing around downtown Bend a couple of weeks ago. This was right after all the snow melted here, it was warm for a while. I wanted to play with a little close up photography, and got some interesting shots.

I played with some lighting in my close up photography. I found a cluster of three pine cones on a tree down by the Deschutes river. It was right around sunset, so I tried a shot with the flash, and one without the flash. The two shots of on this post were taken seconds apart, so you can see the lighting effect that happened.

The photo with the dark background, is actually the shot I took using the flash. It illuminated the pine cones nicely, while sort of lost focus on the background. I kind of like the effect the flash had on the image.

The second image was taken with the suppressed flash (or no flash). You can see that it was still decently light outside. There was a little better contrast of color, you can see a green film on the pine cones.

Next, I went and walk around on the footbridge. The footbridge is just down river from the Old Mill District, and parallels SW Colorado Ave. Just before the Colorado and Simpson roundabout. There was a duck just milling around in water, right before the spillway. You can see the Old Mill Smoke Stacks reflect in the water. I was hoping my digital camera would have had a little stronger zoom for this shot. It still turned out decent.

My final shot for this post, is from the footbridge on the walk back to Clyde McKay River Park. It was right at sunset. One of the lamps along the bridge was position right in front of the sun. I was originally going to go for silhouette style of photo. Where the lamp's outline was layered over the subtle sun. After a little maneuvering, I was able to capture an shot to where it looked like the sunset was actually the lamp's glow. I think with a little higher quality of digital camera, this shot could have turned out amazing. It's still kind of cool though.

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Brooks Park
35 NW Drake Rd.
Bend, OR 97701