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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...

A sunset panorama view over the Columbia River wetlands from last week. Four panels at 70mm. C&C always welcome.

We have planted a lot of different flowers, shrubs, and trees in our yard but this isn't one of them. It's some type of uncommon azalea that really isn't in an ideal location but it puts out these really nice blooms every year so we have left it alone and just enjoy the show. I have looked at...

Not quite their usual season unless it was raised by a nursery in a greenhouse like this one I spotted outside a store :) Shot with an iPhone 15 Pro using Adobe's Project Indigo camera app. C&C always welcome.

A number of years ago @Douglas Sherman showed an image of a red trillium bloom. I was surprised they existed and mentioned it to my wife whereupon she led me over to a window and pointed at a small cluster of them she had planted alongside the house :rolleyes: At least now I know to go out...

WARNING - There is a hacking effort underway that in my case took the form of an "invite" from Monika to join something called Punchbowl. I just checked with Monika and it is not legitimate at all. She got hacked by it when she clicked on a similar invite from Joe Kayne (also got hacked) and it...

My first efforts to make a nice web image out of this one hit a red channel wall when I converted it to sRGB. The reds of this azalea in my backyard were simply too much for web colors. I finally resorted to doing all the final PS edits in 8 bit sRGB in order to get a workable image out of it...

Another fine Wednesday so time for another round of waterfalls. This week I am going with a small scene at Ruby Falls in Mt. Rainier National Park. This is along Paradise Creek just below the road leading from Paradise Inn down to Reflection Lakes. There were very low water levels in the creek...

Another wide panorama view of Sunday morning's sunrise with a 70mm lens for this sequence. This was earlier in the shooting session when more of the cloud deck was illuminated by the morning light. You have to look very carefully but there are actually 4 volcanos in this image with Mt. Hood on...

After a long drought of endless gray mornings I got a really nice sunrise yesterday and was able to get quite a few nice captures of the show. This image came out of a 7 shot telephoto panorama at 70mm showing Mt. St. Helens on the left and Mt. Adams in the distance on the right. A moderate haze...

Columbines normally are a ways out from blooming this time of year unless you are looking at specimens that were grown in a nursery to sell at a grocery store. I was wandering into the store to grab some groceries and got sidetracked when I saw pots on display with these wonderful looking...

White rhododendrons are the first ones to bloom in our area and always give us a nice show to kick off the season. Many more colors are getting ready to burst out but the predominantly white ones steal the attention with their early start. C&C always welcome.

One of my neighbors has a pair of azalea bushes that lets you know its spring from blocks away. This what it looks like from across the street with my telephoto lens. C&C always welcome.

By mid November most of the leaves in Oregon's coast range have fallen and the fall rains have filled all the creeks. Not so in the fall of 2018 when the rains held back and the waterfalls I was expecting to shoot were a mere trickle in places where I usually encountered more robust flows. This...

Mossy stairs in the Portland Japanese Garden. I have always liked these stairs but getting the right light in the right season is pretty much hit and miss. C&C always welcome.

A shot of the wave action on the basalt shelves at Cape Perpetua on an early January morning. A bit of a stormy day with some fairly frisky Pacific swells smothering the shoreline offered up some interesting photo opportunities. C&C always welcome.

I had high hopes for reds and magentas at the tail end of this sunset from last week given how it was progressing. As it turned out this was pretty much the end of the show although it was far from disappointing and my battery was starting to get pretty low anyway. Two frame panorama at 28mm...

Not from one of the festivals but still a nice cluster of multiflora tulips putting on a springtime show. C&C always welcome.