Len Otto's photo of a salmonberry flower at Oxbow Regional Park won the fall 2014 photo contest in Our Big Backyard.
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Include a description of your experience in a 100-word caption. Where were you? What were you doing? What captured your attention?
The winner will appear on the back cover of the winter 2015 edition of Our Big Backyard.
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Len Otto of Boring won the photo contest in the Fall 2014 issue of Our Big Backyard with his photo of a salmonberry flower at Oxbow Regional Park.
Here’s what Otto wrote:
My wife and I love Oxbow Regional Park - every year we buy the annual pass and use it probably 250 times. We walk there every chance we get. Recently, we went for an early Sunday morning walk both for the exercise and to try out a new lens I had just purchased. The color of the salmonberry has always been a favorite. The shot of the unfurling salmonberry bloom with a water droplet about to fall was the first shot ever with my new lens. I was delighted, and even more delighted when I got home and looked at it on my computer screen. I could not have hoped for better. Oxbow never fails us.
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