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Hodges: Photographer uses old film techniques to produce images
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He decided the way to get
paid to hike was through his
love of photography.
“I’ve always been known
as a hiking photographer.
So one really bad day at the
restaurant, I locked myself in
my office and I wrote a to-do
list that said in one year I had
to quit my job,” he said. “Then
one year later, I did.”
To get established as a pho-
tographer, he traveled 26 times
a year for 14 years to pres-
ent his photography at every
art show he could find in the
Pacific Northwest.
But after a few too many
days of blustering winds
knocking over his exhibit
booth tents, Hodges made it a
goal to open his first brick-and-
mortar gallery in Edmonds,
Washington, four-and-a-half
years ago. He then jumped on
the chance to open another in
Cannon Beach after seeing
his dream property on Hem-
lock Street open up earlier this
year.
“It encompasses everything
I love about my business and
photography. (Cannon Beach
is a) great location to shoot
pictures, and a fantastic town
separate from anywhere else
you go,” Hodges said.
What makes Hodges work
stand apart from the others, he
said, is that every image is pro-
duced in the camera — that
means no Photoshop, no edit-
ing. Instead, he has honed old
film techniques to create the
images he wants. Sometimes it
will take him years to get the
perfect photo. Sometimes it
takes visiting the same site 22
times if the lighting isn’t cor-
rect, he said.
His commitment to authen-
ticity doesn’t go unnoticed,
he said. He has made a whole
business out of teaching peo-
ple uninterested in learning
An earthquake early warn-
ing system under develop-
ment for the West Coast gets
a major boost in the new fed-
eral budget that President
Donald Trump signed into law
Friday.
President Trump’s origi-
nal budget proposal for 2018
zeroed out funding for earth-
quake early warning. But Con-
gress dramatically reversed
that. The new federal budget
increases spending to build an
warning system to $23 million
this year, more than double the
$10 million that the U.S. Geo-
logical Survey got for this last
year.
University of California,
Berkeley seismologist Rich-
ard Allen said the budget boost
keeps the system on track for
a “limited” public rollout late
this year.
“Thinking about warn-
ing times, we’re talking about
seconds, tens of seconds. The
best-case scenario is a few
minutes,” Allen said. “We
should be thinking about how
we can react with warnings of
a few seconds.”
The system designers say a
short advance warning could
be used to open fire station
doors, slow down trains, pause
surgeries or stop and open ele-
vators at the next floor.
Down the road, the general
public will be able to get alerts
to drop, cover and hold on via
smartphone apps, TV screens
and other connected devices.
Allen said the new fund-
ing for the earthquake warn-
ing system will pay for things
like additional sensors and
for fine tuning the software to
automatically detect damaging
quakes and issue alerts.
Warrenton man arrested for
alleged hoax calls to Coast Guard
By JACK HEFFERNAN
The Daily Astorian
A Warrenton man was
arrested Friday for allegedly
making 40 false mayday
calls to the Coast Guard that
prompted numerous rescue
responses in 2016.
Bud O’Neil Burkleo, 35,
appeared in Portland before a
federal judge Friday on a five-
count indictment. Hoax dis-
tress calls can lead to a prison
sentence of up to six years,
$255,000 in fines and reim-
bursement for Coast Guard
operating costs.
The Coast Guard released
audio of the calls in Decem-
ber 2016. A voice analy-
sis revealed he was likely a
white man between 35 and 40
years old, and the Coast Guard
believed he lived between
Chinook, Washington, and
Seaside.
“Mayday. Mayday. May-
day. 46 north, 58 west,” the
man said in a recording with a
slight East Coast accent. “Lis-
tening hard to starboard and
taking on water. We’re just
south of Tillamook rock.”
WANTED
For the next few years,
Hodges will be managing
the gallery remotely from
Edmonds until his wife retires
from her position. But once
they make the move down,
they are here to stay, he said.
“We hope to be in Cannon
Beach for at least 15 years,”
he said. “That’s the dream,
and we just have to make it
work.”
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Earthquake early warning gets
big boost in new federal budget
By TOM BANSE
Northwest News Network
post-production editing tech-
niques his method in photog-
raphy classes.
“In an age where you aren’t
sure if you are looking at a
real image anymore, people
know they are seeing what I
saw when I took that photo.
They are standing right next to
me on that beach and on that
mountain, and they know it
look liked that.”
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A graduate of the Yale School of Forestry &
Environmental Studies, Pyle’s 1987 book, “Wintergreen” won the John Burroughs
Medal for its insights about how industrial forestry damaged the land,
waters and people of the Willapa Hills of Southwest Washington. He and his
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