Colin Walsh Photography

Siletz River Fall Fishing

2011-11-13T22:24:00.000-08:00

It was a beautiful day on the river. Rain was forecasted for the day and we managed to dodge the drops. This day we chose to sleep in a little and hit the river mid morning. miss

The trusty 94 blazer got us to the hole and there were only 2 other vehicles pulled off, not bad at all for this stretch of the river. Of course we didn't tie up the night before and there were definitely 3 other vehicles that pulled up as we we franticlytied our knots and dropped weights between the gravel. These kind gentlemen smiled as they all piled out of their trucks with rods in hand and raced each other up to the river. I glanced over at my buddy and said 'whatever, we'll be fine' we proceeded to crack the a.m. cold ones and finish tying up.

We ended up on the water around 10a.m. and to my surprise there was no one in the hole close to the trucks. I pointed to my my buddy of where to fish behind the spawning salmon and mentioned a few snags to watch be wary of. With in 15 minutes we were released one strong native and had a little colored up hatchery for the smoker on the bank. The day continued with a few hook ups on steelhead but nothing solid. There were also a number of very beautiful cutthroat trout that loved the egg patterns that we were throwing out.

All in all it was a great 1/2 day fishing trip. Usually I am the guy racing around and trying to hop holes above people. But this day I learned a valuable lesson, and that is not to be the greedy one. Take your time and it will come. My friend and I enjoyed a beautiful day on the river having non stop action for about 5 hours. The best part of the day was that is was all a stones throw away from the truck. As Babe Winkelman would say 'good fishing' and my advice is take your time, you never know what is right under your toes. Enjoy your self and all the beautiful places your fishing adventures may take you.

Dill, Bill and Shey

2011-10-14T13:36:00.000-07:00

welty and tanner

2011-08-14T13:49:00.000-07:00

2011 'Showdown' @ Burnside

2011-07-03T12:16:00.000-07:00

it It was a nice day in Portland with some good skating going on. Be sure to look elsewhere for quality pictures of the event. I believe the people in these pictures are Wade, unknown, Bryce?, Sparrow, unknown.

Please Urinate in my Eyelids.

2011-06-23T18:37:00.000-07:00

Fuck all of you fair-weather friends, take a seat on a thick one.

2010 Oregon Bi-Fecta Lincoln City.

2011-06-23T10:18:00.001-07:00

2011-06-06T00:10:00.000-07:00

thinkin' of fishn'

Very stoked to get shot of the week on Skatedaily.net!!

2011-05-31T17:04:00.000-07:00

Thank you people at skatedaily.net for putting this up!! And thank you Brandon for doing this even though "it was'nt that cool" now bring on some sunshine.

Tattoos, lizards and a skateboard(er)

2011-05-26T10:45:00.000-07:00

I am fascinated by people and their interesting tattoos. I personally do not own a tattoo, and the chances of me getting one are a lot slimmer now that my binge drinking days are behind me (or are they?). Wether you love the dark lord or wish your were an angel in a centerfold, im sure there is a shitty tattoo out there waiting to be embedded into your skin and a happy tattoo artist to scar you for life. Until then, enjoy yourself, get wasted and wake up with ink that wont rub off. Oh, buck loves to skate pools and Kyle is amused by almost anything he stumbles upon.

Miguel, Morgan and Brandon.

2011-05-23T10:13:00.000-07:00

K-BOOOOO

2011-05-23T09:03:00.000-07:00

Not the best shot, a little blurry and I chopped off K-boo's head. Next time my flashes will work and we will get it right. thanks for shredding the tuff kevin.

New and Old

2011-04-27T08:59:00.000-07:00

These pictures are a mix of some of the new and older shots I have taken.

Chris Welty
Chris Welty
Chris Welty
Roberto Wall
Buck Shelton

35mm gone but not forgotten.

2011-04-10T13:55:00.000-07:00

These pictures were taken with my now dead 35mm. I had that camera for over 10 years and I am very surprised it lasted that long, man did i put that camera through hell. If anyone reads this and has an old 35mm they are willing to part with please contact me. Thank YOU.

California Dreamin....

2011-01-14T01:20:00.000-08:00

This was made by skateboarders for skateboarders.

Buck Shelton

2010-12-22T19:19:00.000-08:00

Buck Shelton is good at skateboarding. Always ready to go.

Just a Peek

2010-12-22T18:57:00.000-08:00

random exposures by colin walsh.

BCSA ART SHOW 2010

2010-11-22T20:54:00.000-08:00

Burnside Halloween 2010.

2010-11-15T21:09:00.000-08:00

Here is a video that my friend shot and I edited, short and sweet, enjoy.
Burnside Oregon Halloween 2010. 20th Anniversary.

The 999 pool or the scum bucket

2010-11-08T18:58:00.000-08:00

This was not the best pool in the world but its better then the skatepark in town. My friend told me about this pool and I went and emptied it. Lots of nasty water and some frogs got removed out of the bottom. No dead animals in this one.. kinda strange. well there are no pictures of us skating it, so this is it, the most radical maneuver that went down was marlins drop in on the corner and thats about it. I snagged the pool rules sign after they filled it in, its a cool sign with hand painted letters. next time I am home I will take a picture of it. It hangs above our empty and non skate-able hot tub. Dont get me wrong I love Oregon, moving up here was the best thing that ever happened to me. But, I miss the sun and my family, my dog henry, the beach, old friends. I can not wait to move back home, I will always love Oregon, always, its is so green and everyone up here for the most part are really really nice people. Californians are assholes X 10 and + 1, but i like some of those assholes and some of those assholes are my good friends and family, Oregonians really hate on the people south of them but after living here for 5 years the only difference between the two is that Californians use umbrellas and Oregonians dont. Well this turned out a little off topic, but i dont give a fucking shit, this is my little space in the internet and I can say whatever the fuck I want, I can even take a picture of my penis and post it on here. I might just do that, except he is camera shy. I like California and I plan on moving back once I finish school. although, I am afraid of all the traffic, sweet jesus go I hate traffic. Oh, and for some reason people really like the dirty beer can picture, I have made about 150$ from that photo, most money I have ever made from a photograph. Done.

emptied, repaired and skated.

2010-11-08T17:37:00.003-08:00

top: Buck Shelton

bottom: Chris James, Buck and Marlin

Kevin sneaks in a grind on the repaired coping that BMXer kids blasted out.

I am planning on putting up more and more pictures on this blog, I am afraid that my computer might crash, get stolen, or burn in a fire. So, I am putting my images online so they are "safe" and ideally can not be destroyed. This was a very fun pool "the666pool" I wish it was still skate-able. People put some serious $$ into fixing this place up and it is once again a swimming pool. I am sure their fun wont last and it will be skated in the near future. Where is it? Shit if I know. I skated this pool because of Buck Shelton, who is pictured on the brick wall in Rio Del Mar Beach. Buck is going through some hard times, I wish I was home to help him out, I miss you Buck, I hope you can get help and get back to your self.

The Ditch, Rio Del Mar, Ca 2005

2010-11-05T11:37:00.000-07:00

Happy 20th Birthday Burnside

2010-11-02T11:21:00.000-07:00

Burnside is the oldest Do It Yourself (D.I.Y) skate park in the United States and possibly the world. This Halloween I was lucky enough to partake and enjoy the 20 year celebration of the park. This skate park began its form during one Halloween night 20 years ago. Almost every following Halloween there has been some kind of gathering and skating at the park to celebrate its creation and existence. And this year was no exception, there was live music, interesting costumes (gay hitler to a giant sperm), beer, skating, a ball of fire, can toss, fireworks, a mummified creature, scantly dressed women , beer, oh, and some radical skateboard maneuvers were performed also. I was a little too caught up in the moment to actually take some decent pictures, but you win some and you lose some. I would estimate that by the time I left around 7:45 p.m. there were around 100-200 people enjoying the festivities.

People form all over the world know of Burnside, not for the bridge but for what is underneath it. And underneath this bridge is known to be one of the best skate parks in the world. This park was founded by Mark Scott, Bret Taylor, Sage Bolyard, and Osage Buffulo and countless others that voluntered their blood, sweat, time and money into this ongoing project. It is very impressive that a group of individuals took it upon themselves to create and maintain a skate park that was not sanctioned by the city until recent years. Burnside has sparked many other similar projects large and small such as FDR in Philadelphia, Washington Street in California and countless other spots. But, none of these spots will ever have the reputation as Burnside does. Burnside is privately funded and relies on donations to keep maintained and growing. If you would like to donate to Burnside please hit the donate button below.

Oregon Trifecta

2010-10-29T16:25:00.000-07:00

Lance Mountain 2009

Oregon BI-FECTA 2009

2010-10-29T15:51:00.000-07:00

2009 Oregon Tri-Fecta. Pier Park.

Shot of the Week on skateandannoy.com

2010-01-28T11:14:00.001-08:00

I am super stoked that someone noticed my picture and thought of putting it on a web site. Well check it out, its a great skateboard culture web site.

http://skateandannoy.com/

Fun times back home.

2010-01-19T11:12:00.000-08:00

These are pictures of good times back home is Rio Del Mar and surrounding areas. ENJOY!

Zarosh, Miguel, Brandon "Taco"

2010-01-18T20:56:00.001-08:00

These are some pictures of the Buena Vista pool in Watsonville California. This pool has been skated since 1975 and has seen dirt, rocks, water and all other kinds of trash, yet skaters still empty the pool year after to skate. This pool is a piece of skateboard history and has been graced by the best skaters

since the birth of professional skateboarding. I am glad I was able to skate a pool that may not be there tomorrow. Buena Lives.

Im a blogger?

2010-01-18T17:56:00.000-08:00

Well I have attempted the whole blog idea before, but failed. Now I am required to blog and I have no choice but to blog, blog and blog. The class I am taking is a New Media Communication class at Oregon State University, not only do we have to blog we have to twitter. I am scared. This is a lot of stuff getting thrown at "a low tech guy in a high tech world". I don't even have text messaging on my phone, how will I twitter or tweet. I am sure that all this will be figured out, It is just scary to think about how much information is available on a cell phone. I don't have the extra cash for text messaging, and i don't really see a need for it. A phone should be used for phone calls not facebooking and whatever else people do, it seems that everyone cares what other people are doing too much. There are people out there that can research me and "find" me on facebook, I dont want people to find me or know what im doing unless I feel that they need to know. The internet is a scary tool, I think we all need to take a step back and not forward, chill people chill. I will leave this post with what I think is the most popular saying among todays youth "just text me.........."