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Out along the Oregon coast I have seen quite a few nice sunsets that end with a deeply saturated glow just before darkness takes over. Those have been quite rare where I live but a couple of nights ago the pieces fell in place for me to capture a nice one for this 3 panel panorama shot at 70mm...

Wednesdays are nice for waterfalls and if you have any shots of falling water this is the place to show them off. My falls for today are Willaby Falls near the South Shore Road at Lake Quinault on the Olympic Peninsula. Not a huge waterfall but a nice little grotto at the end of a trail that...

Lots of reminders on last night's local news about yesterday being the 46th anniversary of the 1980 Mt. St. Helens eruption so I decided to grab a shot of the old volcano for the occasion. Not much going on in the way of clouds except for the ones lurking near the stubby peak so I didn't wait...

A nice collection of May blooms along a neighborhood fencerow. Unlikely the homeowner cares much about the blooms in the frame as this is the street facing side of the tall bushes facing the street (well over 10' tall) but the wisteria poking through contrasts nicely with the blooms on the...

This image is best described as a monumental salvage job as the original appeared almost black below the horizon. I was honestly surprised I could resurrect this much color and detail out of the deep shadows but was glad current generation software could perform the task. I applied a pano crop...

From a previous summer - day lilies after an overnight watering ready to greet the day. These will be out in the middle of next month. C&C always welcome.

Focus stacking is something I have done often through the years but never using the builtin feature on my camera. I decided to play around with it yesterday just to see how useful it might be. I thought it only worked if you had the outputs set for jpegs but it turns out it can do RAW. The...

My waterfall for today is a small set of falls where Rocky Creek drops into the Pacific Ocean along the Otter Crest Loop road just south of Depoe Bay.. There is a small turnout for parking but the falls are almost directly below the parking area and aren't really visible. Unless you happen to...

One of the more fun aspects to shooting with DJI's Mavic 4 Pro drone is the ability to rotate the lens to shoot in portrait mode rather than always shooting with a landscape orientation. This is especially useful for large scale panoramas like a seriously nice sunset like I saw a few nights ago...

Nowhere even close to peak blooms for the Columbines in our yard but a good sampling started their annual appearance this weekend so I grabbed some shots yesterday afternoon. Yellow with single flora: Multi Flora Blue: Firecracker Columbine: Double Flora Blue. These are the most...

We got some very nice clouds at the end of the day yesterday with no marine layer to spoil the show. Four panels at 70mm. C&C always welcome.

Calendula officinalis is also known as Pot Marigold and belongs to the daisy family. The bloom is apparently edible although I have never tried to eat them myself. They do have a nice looking flower and in this case a nice shaft of light coming through the trees with a late afternoon sun angle...

In this case less of a nighttime show in the air but Firecracker Columbines are starting their annual show in our backyard. I caught one bloom in some really nice light late yesterday afternoon and scored this shot. C&C always welcome.

Time for another round of falling water so dig up whatever you have depicting water demonstrating obedience to gravity. My offering for today is a scene at Canary Springs in the Mammoth Hot Springs are of Yellowstone National Park. Not exactly a huge flow of water but one that shows exactly...

Sunsets have been interesting lately but typically felt like distant clouds and marine layers have cut them a bit short in duration and color. Not so last Friday when very nice atmospheric conditions led to a nice finale with colors all around and over the position of my drone. There was no way...

A shady view of an azalea in my back yard after an early morning rain. Not exactly the usual Pacific NW style weather as we hit temperatures more normal for Phoenix yesterday in the mid 90's and I was out checking the overnight results from my sprinkler system when I spotted this nice lighting...

From a few days back when a string of nice sunsets started. This is a stitch of 6 vertical panels at 168mm well after the sun dropped below the horizon. Most of the color and light was near the horizon by this point. C&C always welcome.

I have been seeing some really nice sunset color shows lately and last night was one of the better ones so far this spring. This 3 panel pano stitch with a 70mm lens is from early in the show that offered up a nice preview of what was to come over the next 20 minutes. C&C always welcome.

I was shooting a nice sunset last night and swiveled around to see what the mountains behind me looked like. When I focused on Mt. Hood I saw this in my viewfinder and decided it was worth a telephoto panorama. Much nicer colors off to the west behind me and no sunlight left on the mountain but...

My waterfall for this week is a winter view of Palisade Falls in the Columbia River Gorge. Everyone driving on I-84 through the Gorge passes by these falls located directly below the Crown Point Vista House but beyond a glimpse of them through the trees there are no good viewpoints of the falls...