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Not exactly a path lined with flowers since this is the Queens Garden trail in Bryce Canyon. I was trying out DxO's PhotoLab 9 to see if the new version had anything new compared to PhotoLab 8 which I already have. Nothing really jumped out at me for major changes at least at first glance...

I am an absolute sucker for hanging out watching waves along the Oregon coast during the winter months when the Pacific is churning with activity from storms. This is a nice example of a captivating set of waves during an early February visit to Harris Beach State Park. C&C always welcome...

I am still trying to catch up from all the amazing color shows I got over the last couple of weeks and this one is from late August. A 70mm panorama from a sunset that kept going for so long I had to bring my drone down and put in a fresh battery to get this shot so well over 1/2 hour worth of...

I keep thinking the endless parade of colorful sunset clouds is going to end but they just keep coming. This one is from last Tuesday. Four panels at 24mm. Best viewed on a large screen. C&C always welcome.

I have one more shot from Elowah Falls today with a 3 shot vertical telephoto panorama. This was shot in mid winter so a pretty good flow in McCord Creek compared to what you would see here during the summer and fall months. This closer view of the cliff walls does a nice job of showing off the...

I was looking at previous captures of the fall colors in the Columbia River Gorge and noticed this scene from October of 2023. The timestamp is 10/12/2023 so we are at a point where early colors might be getting started. The colors in 2023 were far beyond the usual range of the fall displays but...

An article from the New York Times suggests that the current administration is about to end DJI's access to the U.S. markets: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/business/dji-chinese-drones-ban.html?unlocked_article_code=1.kU8.xLho.dgCseTQVt4h6&smid=em-share Congress had added an...

A small scene along the far shore of Reflection Lake in Mt. Rainier National Park. Shot on a quiet morning in early October about ten years ago. C&C always welcome.

All due apologies to Deep Purple for the title but it seemed to fit well here. This is from Friday night's sunset that I posted a panorama of yesterday but this time at 400' above the ground using a 70mm lens. I wasn't sure I could do much with these shots since there was so much visible smoke...

I was in a part of my house where I couldn't see the sky when last night's sunset started and colors were going wild when I came upstairs. I grabbed my drone and launched it immediately before it had satellites locked so the drone software stopped my ascent at 100' until it could establish GPS...

While I was looking through images for John's Thursday Task reflections theme I came across an overlooked and unprocessed image from Bandon that seemed worth playing with. This was a low tide sunset looking out towards Face Rock from Coquille Beach. C&C always welcome.

My falls for today are a bit of a What Was tale. One of my favorite places in the Gorge was a neat short hike through dense forest followed by the trail dropping down into an overgrown basin featuring Elowah Falls. This is a view of the falls through the trees from a springtime visit in 2008...

I got another nice sideshow to the sunset last night overlooking Vancouver Lake. The skies to the west were bare with some high level smoke so I got far more color looking south with a few clouds over the lake for some nice colors and reflections. Squeezing the moon into the shot was a nice...

A sunset panorama scene looking towards Mt. St. Helens with thunderstorms on the east side of the Cascades offering up some evening color on Saturday. Every once in a while such storms spill over to the west side of the mountains but it's not common. The colors to the west were pretty much a...

NuMex Twilight peppers are a hybrid chili created at New Mexico State University that offer up an amazing array of color. They are far from benign if you wish to sample one packing quite a punch at around 40,000 Scoville heat units - about the same level as cayenne and tabasco peppers and nearly...

From a sunset last week as the light was fading fast but the colors kept going strong. Not enough light for foreground recovery but the near silhouette conditions fit in well with the sky so I left it alone. Three panels at 24mm. C&C always welcome.

Capsicum annuum Medusa is an ornamental chili pepper usually grown for looks but is also edible. This specimen was on display at a nursery looking quite nice so I grabbed a shot. A good occasion to be shooting with an iPhone for the required depth of field at close range. C&C always welcome.

My falls for today are from Falls Creek Falls in Washington's Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Towards the end of our dry season these falls shrink down from being one big firehose to a series of smaller more delicate cascades that offer up almost endless small scenes when you toss on a long...

I mentioned to Jim yesterday that as long as Mother Nature kept dishing up colorful sunsets I would keep shooting them and last night turned out to be even better than the evening before. We do have a bit of wildfire smoke filtering through the Gorge from a fire down near Redmond Oregon that...

Usual summers in the Pacific NW are almost devoid of clouds and feature relatively moderate temperatures. On the other hand I don't think I have ever shot as many sunsets with clouds as I have seen this year including one last night with the shot you see below. To top it off it was hotter (85ºF)...