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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...

Time for another round of falling water. Last week I showed a scene at Ruby Falls along the Paradise River in Mt. Rainier National Park and my offering for today is just over 1/2 mile downstream on the river called Narada Falls. The distance in a car is longer with switchbacks and long sweeping...

Up until this year the last flower to bloom in our garden was the Monk's Hood but we ripped those out this last spring and replaced them with a new plant called Cosmos that is now giving us late season flowers. Since I had a new way to process IR images I decided to shoot one of the blooms with...

I followed @Michael13's link for IR profiles by Rob Shea and after looking around grabbed his free profiles for my old 590nm converted Canon 5D MkII. Being a dedicated Lightroom user since its release I also opted for his color swap profiles as well since this allows me to do all of the channel...

A morning view of Paradise Valley as seen from the meadows above Paradise Lodge in Mt. Rainier National Park. When I visited this spot the day before there was still quite a bit of wildfire smoke in this view and it wasn't all that tempting as a photo target. C&C always welcome.

Once upon a time this was called camera roll serendipity but the result is the same either way - a shot you didn't take intentionally but discovered when you started looking at your results. I had no clue this shot was on the card until I started processing what all was on it but I must have...

Mt. Rainier from Reflection Lakes - the sky was almost completely covered with clouds last week when Jameel and I stopped in at the lakes but we decided to wait out the sunset just in case the clouds went away at the last minute. That wait paid off and this is the scene just after the clouds...

Hard to believe it's October already. I visited Mt. Rainier National Park last week and spent some time shooting more waterfalls at first when the skies were too smoky to get good views of the mountain. I visited several falls along Paradise Creek the afternoon I arrived and in the case of Ruby...

When I first got up to Mt. Rainier last Wednesday there was a fair amount of wildfire smoke in the air so I focused on shooting close scenes and waterfalls. The air cleared up quite a bit the next morning and the mood of the meadows and the mountain changed completely. By mid to late afternoon...

The slopes about Paradise Inn in Mt. Rainier National Park have quite a few interconnected trails and after spending the first of the morning shooting waterfalls I decided to take a stroll around the meadows. When hiking towards Rainier with the sun at my back the colors were quite nice but when...

Fall colors can be quite subtle in the Pacific NW forests since the trees are mostly evergreens but the forest floor does display some colorist let you know the seasons are changing. Openings through the trees allows a view of the Tatoosh Mountains in the distance and a bit of sunlight on the...

Most folks line up for their captures of Mt. Rainier at Reflection Lakes but I like to check out the other possibilities when I visit there as well. I liked the contrasts between the deep greens of the evergreens and the bright red berries in the foreground for this particular view looking...

A shot from yesterday morning with backlighting on the fall colors of the ground cover. Just below Edith Creek on the path from Paradise Inn. This is a first road edit on a new laptop so there were some teething issues in processing this. C&C always welcome.