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I visited a new waterfall this last week called Upper Kentucky Falls in the Oregon Coast Range. The flow rate was likely at its lowest of the year with the rainy season not fully underway as of my visit but I suspect the falls are already running much higher with the current storms coming in off...

No clue how this creek got named but this is one of many small waterways that feed into the North Fork of the Smith River in the Oregon Coast Range. Not a great deal of direct sunlight makes it down to the forest floor here due to the extensive evergreen canopy in this old growth forest. The...

I made a quick trip up the Columbia River Gorge last Friday to grab some last shots of fall colors and wasn't disappointed with the tree colors. Hazy skies and high winds were a different story however and I wasn't able to get good views of the Gorge itself. There were whitecaps on the river...

Fall colors in old growth coastal rainforests are pretty much confined to either the understory under the evergreen canopy or along the banks of the rivers and streams. As a result I stopped to shoot the maples at just about every river crossing I could find along the north Fork of the Smith...

A quick shot and a short video of wave action at Thor's Well and Cook's Chasm from last week. The swells were still fairly high from a storm that had cleared out a few hours earlier but the winds were calm enough to allow me to fly my drone out over the open water just beyond where people...

This is a scene along the trail follows Kentucky Creek heading down to some waterfalls before it joins the North Fork of the Smith River in the Oregon Coast Range. True old growth forests aren't all that common in the coast range given intense logging over the past 150 years but there are some...

My waterfall for today is a distant fall view of Wahkeena Falls in the Columbia River Gorge. This is from last week with nearly full peak fall colors and I decided to shoot this one from far enough away to include the amazing leaves in the Benson Recreation Area down at the bottom of the scene...

One of many fall scenes along the North Fork of the Smith River in the Oregon Coast Range from yesterday. Old growth forests are not very common in the coast range with endless clear cuts over the past 150 years and single species plantings being far more common. I was a bit surprised at how...

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...