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Things have been a little on the damp side around my area for the past few days and yesterday there were finally some breaks in the rain so I sent my drone up for some views of the aftermath. Right around where I live is on top of an ice age flood plain so no homes are in danger of present day...

Not my image of course (I sure wish it was) but I spotted this in a Nature magazine newsletter I subscribe to and thought it worth sharing. Villarrica Volcano in Pucón, Chile as shot by Francisco Negroni. Simply jaw dropping.

Mapleton Oregon is one of those places along the highway with one intersection and no traffic light. You do have to slow down since the road from Eugene to Florence makes a 90º left turn although you won't have to stop. Census folks call it a census-designated place instead of a town with an...

I don't have any power this morning so I am starting this thread from my laptop and flashlights :oops: My waterfall for today is from a trip up the Gorge a couple of weeks ago with a shot of Wahkeena Falls. Single shot in portrait mode 28mm. Pile on with your own falling water.

A nice scene along Sweet Creek Road not far up the road from where the creek ends. The maples were putting on their usual show of orange and yellows but in this case we also have an additional treat. Mixed in with the maples and conifers are some trees in an almost lime green hue - these are the...

This is about as close as I get to taking selfies with a shot looking upstream along the Columbia River from just over the Benson Recreation Area. Benson Lake was created by the construction of the I-84 freeway and is constantly kept full from the outflow of Multnomah Falls. The falls are not...

A couple of nights ago while shooting a sunset from above my house I decided to aim my camera south towards downtown Vancouver and Portland in the distance using a 168mm telephoto lens set for 50MP resolution. I haven't been terribly impressed with the 168mm lens in 50MP mode before since DxO...

The sun made an appearance yesterday afternoon just in time for a few nice colors at sunset. I decided it might be worthwhile to see what I might be able to get from an aerial perch and sent my drone up to check out the view. The color show was surprisingly brief given how it started out but...

In 2020 there was a wildfire that started out in the small valley with Hadsell Creek just east of Mapleton Oregon. The fire burned right down to the Siuslaw River and was renamed to the Sweet Creek Milepost 2 fire after the roadway that follows the east side of the Siuslaw. The fire was mostly...

Good morning and welcome to another round of falling water. Last week I wandered up the Gorge with a new drone in hand and of course I headed for the waterfalls as part of my itinerary. The new twist with this drone is the ability to rotate the lens to shoot with a portrait mode orientation...

This is the tail end of a really nice sunset I got to shoot last week. It was getting dark enough that I should have had a beacon on top of the drone but I was still seeing enough light on the controller screen to shoot and land. I am guessing this drone has better low light sensors than my old...

This is a link to a sticky thread over on the Mavic Pilot's Forum on where to buy current models of DJI drones as of today: Mavic Pilot's Forum Buyers List

Gadget Acquisition Syndrome aligned with the Wife Acceptance Factor so I grabbed a Mavic 4 Pro this last week Pretty bad timing on my part for weather I could fly in but I did manage to get one trip up the Gorge in along with a nice sunset the other night. Adobe hasn't included support for the...

Another view of the sunset color show I got a couple of evenings ago. This is a view overlooking part of Vancouver Lake, the Port of Vancouver, and downtown Portland in the distance tucked up against the Tualatin Hills. I thought all the layers in the frame between the waterways and the colorful...

It's always a good idea to keep an eye peeled when the weather forecasts call for long lines of storms headed you way because there are often breaks between them. In this case we got one such break just in time for last night's sunset which turned out to be a nice one. This is a 4 panel stitch...

I wanted to grab some drone shots to test out camera settings on Wednesday before a long series of storms rolled in so I wandered up into the Gorge. I was expecting fairly dull colors since most of the fall leaves had already fallen down in the metro area and was pleasantly surprised to find...

It's time for another round of waterfalls. Anything that depicts falling water whether its out in the wild or surrounded by concrete and shot out of a pipe is fair game. My falls for today are a follow on to my post yesterday showing fall leaves in the lowlands at the end of Sweet Creek. I got...

The opposite end of the spectrum from pristine old growth forests near Smith River is this scene on display near the mouth of Sweet Creek. As a crow (or drone) flies this is less than a mile from one of the larger early saw mills near Florence Oregon and has been logged extensively in addition...

From a late September visit to the slopes and meadows above Paradise Inn at Mt. Rainier National Park. The day started out with smoky skies but I was initially shooting waterfalls and didn't really care. After I was done with the falls I could see that winds had picked up from the west and the...

Some colors on a Japanese Maple from a couple of weeks ago. C&C always welcome.