These are some of the popular waterfalls you’ll find along the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon:
Punchbowl Falls
Multnomah Falls
Wahkeena Falls
Upper Horsetail Falls
Latourell Falls
Of course the best ones I had to save for the Oregon Waterfalls CD.
Here are some of the places I’ve worked…
Today I attended the internet marketing conference hosted by Portland State University.
Like any conference I’ve ever attended, a person has to wade through a lot of irrelevant information before hearing something useful. I grit my teeth when speakers seem unprepared, waste time, go off topic, and don’t always think through the exact information that would be most useful to the audience. Boiled down, here is exactly what I found useful:
4 Social Media Marketing tips:
1. When you attend conferences/tradeshows, always write up a summary, take photos/video, and post on your blog. It will be something of interest to your users, will help build trust, might invite user comments, and can help drive traffic through searches.
2. If you have a WordPress blog, submit it to the showcase:
http://wordpress.org/showcase/
3. If you have videos, submit to blip.tv
4. Use Yahoo Pipes and Netvibes to aggregate content
That’s it. Everything else I heard presented was either too basic, too vague, or off topic.
Websites not mentioned, but I thought would have been: Flickr, YouTube, StumbleUpon, Digg, Yahoo Buzz, Delicious, Reddit
On Saturday, Dec. 6th, two of us went on a short hike to Hardy and Rodney Falls, on the path to Hamilton Mountain.
Hardy Falls
Rodney Falls
Columbia River Gorge
Sunset in the Gorge
The sunset displayed an amazing pinkish red color, then darkened near blood red. Sailors were delighted.
Raindrops shown on a window. The weather turned back to the normal Northwest rain the next day.
Here are some sample images from my newest point-and-shoot camera, the Canon PowerShot SD790 IS.
Portland Chinatown
Spider on leaf
Portland Union Station
Compared to the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi, the SD790 actually outperforms in basic point-and-shoot mode, especially in focusing. Colors seemed true and accurate. It’s super easy to use. For professional photography, it makes sense to always keep a basic point-and-shoot camera like this on-hand, in addition to any SLRs.