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I made a pilgrimage to Cape Perpetua yesterday and decided to try an experiment by shooting with my camera set for high speed shots like I would use for birds in flight to see what kinds of details I could pull out of high surf conditions with heavy sea foam as the waves pounded into Cook's...

Cook's Chasm is an underwater canyon in the basalt at Cape Perpetua that offers up some fun displays when the swells are high during stormy weather. There is also a hole in the basalt with an opening to the canyon that acts as a blowhole when the waves come crashing up the chasm. This is a shot...

This is the view looking downstream on the Columbia River from out over the water near Multnomah Falls. Benson Lake is the small lake on the far side of the freeway that catches the outflow of Multnomah Falls before draining into Wahkeena Creek and joining the Columbia. Wahkeena creek and falls...

Mirror Lake directly below Crown Point in the Columbia River Gorge from earlier this week. The lake is one of many such small lakes that were created by the berms of the freeway between Troutdale and Cascade Locks. The Columbia River used to flood this area every year prior to the construction...

Young Creek area in the wetlands below Shepperd's Dell and Latourell falls. This is from a visit this last Monday as the Gorge colors are heading towards peak. Interesting to note that the colors on the slopes in the background mark the edges of the 2017 Eagle Creek Fire as the disturbed areas...

I wandered up the Gorge Monday to see what the fall colors looked like and was rewarded with near peak colors in the area around Multnomah Falls. This is a 3 shot vertical panorama of the falls as seen from roughly 300' above the Columbia River using a telephoto lens. I like shooting these falls...

This is another image from last week up in the Columbia River Gorge. I did go up again yesterday and the colors have advanced considerably and getting close to peak in places. I had already worked up this image from last week and haven't processed the new captures yet so lots more still to come...

It's hard to cross the footbridge at Edith Creek without raising your camera to shoot this scene with the small falls on the creek with the mountain looming above the scene. It's a very popular footpath so as you might imagine there is almost always several people shooting here pretty much all...

Most of the flowers in our garden have signed off on the summer season but we have a cluster of Cosmos plants that are just getting started from what I can see. Not a lot of pollinators still around but its still nice to see the splash of colors still churning along. C&C always welcome.

One more fall shot from Mt. Rainier National Park - a view looking towards the Tatoosh mountain range from the meadows above Paradise Inn. I was enchanted with the backlit colors of the foreground vegetation. C&C always welcome.

This might be behind a paywall but the New York Times published a neat article describing Starfront Observatories with some drone images of the setup. Pretty interesting way to get remote astrophotography images under remarkably clear skies. @Mike Lewis described this place a little while back...

I got some really nice backlighting on the trees along the Union Pacific rails in the Gorge earlier this week while flying at around 90' just above the trees. The views from lower altitudes aren't as expansive as what you see from several hundred feet up but have the advantage of obscuring...

Latourell Creek winds its way through the slopes above the Columbia River Gorge and gives us a nice display at Latourell Falls before dropping down to the wetlands in Rooster Rock State Park. This small unnamed lake in the wetlands is effectively the end of the creek as it appears on maps. The...

It's Wednesday so time for another round of waterfall displays. My falls for today are the upper portion of Christine Falls in Mt. Rainier National Park. The viewpoint for these falls is about 2-3 feet wide with the Longmire-Paradise road right behind you and no guardrail between you and cars...

Fall seems a bit late this year but it's definitely making its presence known in the Portland/Vancouver area. After a few days of rain the clouds lifted and this was the view of Mt. St. Helens from over my house yesterday with a fresh dusting of snow down to about the 5000' level and some...

The unopened bud of a Cosmos bloom. Very late bloomer but it's nice to still see something in blossom so close to the rainy season. C&C always welcome.

When I first took this image in Rooster Rock State Park a couple of years ago I was so fixated on how colorful everything was I didn't really notice that there was a distinct line of dead branches and old small trees all along the edge of the stands of trees lining the wetland grasses. None of...

The area of the Washington side of the Columbia River Gorge directly across from Multnomah Falls is called St. Cloud which seems quite appropriate for this panorama taken in October of 2023. Fall colors that year were completely over the top from our usual color shows and kept going strong right...

This is a panorama of the lowland meadows and wetlands in Rooster Rock State Park in the Columbia River Gorge from last fall. It's raining up in this area through the weekend so things should be getting a nice refresh for the start of fall colors. Last year was quite dry around this time so the...

My favorite lens for shooting panoramas at Reflection Lakes in Mt. Rainier National Park has always been my trusty EF 24mm TS-E. Its just the right focal length for the scenes at those lakes and being able to use the shift feature on the lens allows me to get 3 shot panoramas with almost zero...