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Time for another round of falling water. Last week I showed a scene at Ruby Falls along the Paradise River in Mt. Rainier National Park and my offering for today is just over 1/2 mile downstream on the river called Narada Falls. The distance in a car is longer with switchbacks and long sweeping...

Up until this year the last flower to bloom in our garden was the Monk's Hood but we ripped those out this last spring and replaced them with a new plant called Cosmos that is now giving us late season flowers. Since I had a new way to process IR images I decided to shoot one of the blooms with...

I followed @Michael13's link for IR profiles by Rob Shea and after looking around grabbed his free profiles for my old 590nm converted Canon 5D MkII. Being a dedicated Lightroom user since its release I also opted for his color swap profiles as well since this allows me to do all of the channel...

A morning view of Paradise Valley as seen from the meadows above Paradise Lodge in Mt. Rainier National Park. When I visited this spot the day before there was still quite a bit of wildfire smoke in this view and it wasn't all that tempting as a photo target. C&C always welcome.

Once upon a time this was called camera roll serendipity but the result is the same either way - a shot you didn't take intentionally but discovered when you started looking at your results. I had no clue this shot was on the card until I started processing what all was on it but I must have...

Mt. Rainier from Reflection Lakes - the sky was almost completely covered with clouds last week when Jameel and I stopped in at the lakes but we decided to wait out the sunset just in case the clouds went away at the last minute. That wait paid off and this is the scene just after the clouds...

Hard to believe it's October already. I visited Mt. Rainier National Park last week and spent some time shooting more waterfalls at first when the skies were too smoky to get good views of the mountain. I visited several falls along Paradise Creek the afternoon I arrived and in the case of Ruby...

When I first got up to Mt. Rainier last Wednesday there was a fair amount of wildfire smoke in the air so I focused on shooting close scenes and waterfalls. The air cleared up quite a bit the next morning and the mood of the meadows and the mountain changed completely. By mid to late afternoon...

The slopes about Paradise Inn in Mt. Rainier National Park have quite a few interconnected trails and after spending the first of the morning shooting waterfalls I decided to take a stroll around the meadows. When hiking towards Rainier with the sun at my back the colors were quite nice but when...

Fall colors can be quite subtle in the Pacific NW forests since the trees are mostly evergreens but the forest floor does display some colorist let you know the seasons are changing. Openings through the trees allows a view of the Tatoosh Mountains in the distance and a bit of sunlight on the...

Most folks line up for their captures of Mt. Rainier at Reflection Lakes but I like to check out the other possibilities when I visit there as well. I liked the contrasts between the deep greens of the evergreens and the bright red berries in the foreground for this particular view looking...

A shot from yesterday morning with backlighting on the fall colors of the ground cover. Just below Edith Creek on the path from Paradise Inn. This is a first road edit on a new laptop so there were some teething issues in processing this. C&C always welcome.

I have a small scene today from a place I might be visiting before the day is out - Ruby Falls in Mt. Rainier National Park. In this case shot in 2011 on a previous visit to the park. Add whatever you have depicting falling water :)

Gazing out my window at yet another cloudless sunrise I grabbed an unprocessed pano sequence from last January to inspire me instead. Mid winter is usually the best for neat color shows like this one. Three panels at 70mm from roughly 130' above ground level. C&C always welcome.

This is the view looking south across the high meadows above Paradise Inn at Mt. Rainier NP. A bit of a hazy day due to drifting smoke from a wildfire somewhere upwind from Mt. Rainier. This is a 3 shot panorama using the shift more on a 24mm TS-E lens. C&C always welcome.

A number of years back I used to have a photo membership at the Portland Japanese Gardens and Sunday mornings would typically find me strolling the grounds with my camera in hand. Fall can be quite colorful in these gardens even in the early stages of the season. This scene shows Heavenly Falls...

A coastal sunset scene that got swept up in processing experiments with DxO PhotoLab (PL) comparisons. The scene is a December sunset at Harris Beach State Park on the Oregon coast that had some challenging light. I have thousands of unprocessed images from Harris Beach so that stash has been a...

I have been fiddling around with a trial copy of DxO's PhotoLab 9 and looking around for captures that had difficult light and found this image from Harris Beach State Park. One of the things that PhotoLab can do well is balance extreme light using spot targets you flag to identify the range of...

Hard to believe but this week marks 8 years worth of Waterfall Wednesdays. Happily the laws of gravity still work just fine and water keeps falling :) My offering today is a set of falls on the Olympic Peninsula named Madison Falls. I was visiting a friend in Sequim and he mentioned that I...

A slightly different take on the site known as House on Fire in Mule Canyon. I shot the usual scene earlier that morning when the light had set up the scene so often photographed and then wandered farther up the wash to check out other sites. I stopped back at this site on the way back and...