About Middle-Fork

Middle-Fork is a one-photo-a-day photography blog. Occasionally more - seldom, but sometimes, fewer.
The blog is named after the Middle Fork Willamette River.
There is always a picture of a kitty on Friday.

All photos are my own (c) the Robot Vegetable except where otherwise noted.
I encourage fair use.
Commercial use without my express permission is completely forbidden.
Hotlinking is okay, and encouraged. If you, knowingly or not, hotlink from
a site which forbids fair use, we thenceforth have agreed to a contract:
I consider the hotlinked access to comprise a purchase price, and you have bought
use of the image, unaltered except for minor potential resizing, in the context of the hotlink.
You own the picture in that context. I do not transfer rights or ownership to those
who are responsible for the site in which the hotlink occurs, if the hotlinker is not
that party. (If the hotlinker is using this picture at a site which they control and on
which they prohibit fair use, I think they're really silly.)
I do not transfer any general or unspecified rights to my work.

I may attempt to contact you in the context of the hotlink and say thanks, or to ask
that the hotlink be removed if its usage violates the above.

Probably not.

(I've combined all my nonMiddle-Fork blogs into one blog called Road of Peas.
The old blogs are imported as categories in the new one.)

I have started a blog to document the hotlinks to Middle-Fork, et al: Hotlinking the Vegetable

The list is noisy and incomplete, but it does capture most of the activity.
I took the picture above in my front yard. I noticed that the Water archive was getting
a lot of hits, and I started paying closer attention to the roses after the morning rains.
This picture is a detail of a larger rose and raindrops image, chock full of goodies. I decided for fewer details and a crisper image.
Now and then I run a script which builds a crude list of the
hotlinks to the picture above.
It is among those which currently gets the most hits. I had been putting
up the number one picture, but the Spider with Spider is too often the favorite,
and I'd like to see a little variety. Here are the most current
access stats for Middle-Fork.

My primary camera is a Pentax *Ist DS DSLR, with the stock smc p-DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 lens
and a smc p-DA 50-200mm F4-5.6 lens, both with UV filters. I shoot RAW and use the supplied PENTAX
software to transform them into normal tifs, and then photoshop.
I carry a Nikon CoolPix S9 around in a pocket - some if its pictures show up here.

I no longer use any of my film cameras. I struggle with the lost of dynamic range,
but overall the advantages of a DSLR overwhelm those of film.
Once upon a time, my primary camera was a Pentax Superprogram SLR with a 28-80 SMC Pentax-F Zoom,
with either a UV or a SkyLight filter and 200 ASA elitechrome. Almost all the early Middle-Fork
posts came from this camera, the rest are polaroids.

All photos are prepared for the web with photoshop. I might modify contrast, brightness, and/or
sharpness. Anytime I process a picture beyond what might be reasonably done with film. it will
either be obvious, or I may post it at Far Cartouche.
I'm not really sure what I mean by "reasonably done with film."

the Robot Vegetable