Friday My Town Shoot-Out: shooting from the hip

The idea of the My Town Shoot Out is to post photos of your community every Friday, and hopefully improve your photography skills. If you would like to see examples of this week's theme from other parts of the world, go here.

Photos taken in Corvallis, Oregon

Doreen's words: 

From the Hip! That's right. Taken from the hip. Walk through a store or park or main street with your camera on your hip, shooting away! 

You can shoot high........ you can shoot low. You won't know! Or just shoot ahead of you as you walk. Maybe once in a while, shoot behind you.

It was mixed results for me this week, but whatever, it was fun.

The bike rack at the middle school where I work is quite empty during the winter months, but it fills right up when the weather improves.

It snowed on Wednesday and Thursday of this week, which is quite exciting here in the Willamette valley. Three inches of snow and no school on Thursday! But we did go to school on Monday, President's Day, to make up for a snow day that was called in November.

The fence surrounding our vegetable garden was kind of cool-looking in the snow yesterday.

Today is Eddy's birthday. He is 6 years old. True to his breed (Portuguese Water Dog) he never gets tired, always stays near, looks you in the eye when spoken to, and has a well-developed sense of humor (well, it's funny to him, anyway).

Did you ever start to delete a dumb picture, and then save it anyway? Yeah, me too. It came in handy; shot from my hip, it's Eddy going for a tennis ball last week.