Tuesday, August 25, 2009

salmon surprises


one of the biggest surprise on the trip is to encounter those amazing salmon in a remote part of eastern Oregon. I received the great honor (from my team mates' pick) to get into the cages with those magnificent salmons. It's the fish of a life time! Knowing them migrate hundreds of miles from the ocean to this little tributary, I am humbled by those amazing creatures. Photo by BG! Thanks!

3 comments:

Phil said...

Mark,
Very nice photo. I have been admiring your blog especially your water color fish illustrations, you have a great watercolor style.
I do some watercolor trout illustrations myself check out my blog

http://illustratedtrout.blogspot.com/
and let me know what you think. Any advice would be appreciated. I hope you are having a good time in Oregon it is a great state.

Phil

BLUEANGLER said...

Hey Phil,

Thank you for the kind words and stopping by! I appreciated!

Your watercolors are wonderful! I love the brook trout series... it remind me a smoky trout I caught couple years ago. I am actually thinking about doing some brook trout drawings as well, putting many trout heads on the same canvas is a great idea, just like many wonderful illustration in scientific books!
Take care,
Mark

Anonymous said...

I'm so glad you got to do this, next year I am shouting out my name first!