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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 7h
Sunrise Over Portland

View from the Pittock Mansion this morning. Portland in the foreground, the Cascades and Mt Hood in the background. Look closely to spot the birds flying over the city.

#Oregon #Portland #fall #artPhotography #photography #sunriseColors #fineArtPhotography #sunrise #UrbanGaze
Sunrise Over Portland: horizontal color photograph. The sun has just crested the Cascades Mountains in the upper right of the scene, where it shining through, over, and under the thin streaks of clouds that semi-cover the sky all the way across the frame. About 1/3 of the way in from the left side, and above the mid-ling of the image, looms the cone of Mt. Hood. The sun's rays emanated out from the sun and down through the image, turning the morning mist orange, first illuminating the folds of the Cascades, and then the skyscrapers of downtown Portland, Oregon. In the bottom of the image, layers of silhouetted trees block some of the view of Portland as the Tualatin Mountains rise from the valley to the viewpoint at Pittock Mansion where this photo was taken.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 1d
An early morning with the Koi at the Portland Japanese Garden.

(Not this morning.)

#PortlandJapaneseGarden #Oregon #Portland #fall #artPhotography #photography #autumnColors #koi #fineArtPhotography
Koi cluster near a small piece of sculpture of a lantern in the pond of Heavenly Falls at the Portland Japanes Garden. The greens of the background are broken by one tree breaking out in the yellows and oranges of autumn. You can trace the waterfall through the gaps in the trees in the background.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 2d
Alternate crop, much tighter, emphasizing the foliage.
A bush with vibrant fall colors of orange and yellow is the focus of the image, coming in front he bottom of the frame to just about the midpoint. There are mossy boulders below the leaves that lead the eye across the little creek and to the fern lined opposite bank.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 2d
The seasons roll on at the Portland Japanese Garden . You need to click through to see the whole image - it's a tall, semi-panorama format.

#PortlandJapaneseGarden #Oregon #Portland #fall #artPhotography #photography #autumnColors
A bush with vibrant fall colors of orange and yellow is the focus of the image, coming in front he bottom of the frame to just about the midpoint. There are mossy boulders below the leaves that lead the eye across the little creek and to the fern lined opposite bank. There, in the center, top portion of the image, is a Japanese arched lantern piece with a moss-covered roof that blends in with the shrubs and trees around it.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 3d
Mossy Hills and Braids of White Water

The Little Zigzag River churning around boulders and under fallen trees in the Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon.

#naturePhotography #artPhotography #photography #MountHoodNationalForest #Oregon #littleZigzagRiver #rapids #landscapePhotography
Mossy Hills and Braids of White Water The Little Zigzag River churning around boulders and under fallen trees in the Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon. Horizontal color photograph: the narrow river enters from the left side of the frame and flows out th right. It wraps around a pair of moss covered boulders that resemble small hills, and slips under a pair of moss covered downed trees. You can track the water's path by the white rapids. The foliage of the bushes and trees on the far back is a vibrant green.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 4d
The Old Bridge

The Little Zigzag River slides under an old bridge as it winds through verdant green woodlands in the Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon.

#naturePhotography #artPhotography #photography #MountHoodNationalForest #Oregon #littleZigzagRiver #cascades #landscapePhotography
Horizontal color photograph: The Little Zigzag River slides under an old bridge as it winds through verdant green woodlands in the Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon. The bridge, concrete and steel, half covered In moss, anchors the left side of the image. The river bursts out from beneath it into a winding cascade around one boulder, then over another and then down again and out the right side of the frame. Ferns cluster along the edge of water above the first boulder and tree clutter the air above the bridge and river. A large, mossy tree anchors the upper right edge of the frame.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 5d
Dark-eyed Junco

Shot while hiking between Hole-in-the-Wall Falls and Starvation Creek State Park in the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon.

#naturePhotography #photography #ColumbiaRiverGorge #OregonStateParks #darkEyedJunco #birds
Horizontal color photograph: a dark-eyed junco, a small sparrow with a black head, black eyes, brown back that transitions to black feathers at the tail and edge of the wings, and white underbelly feathers speckled with brown; perches on a branch in the forest along the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. The bird is in the upper part of the image, just to the viewer's left of image center. The junco is facing away from the camera, turned slightly to the right, and looking back over its should at the photographer. The branch it's perching on curves ever so gently downward as crosses the frame from image left to image right. Mossy tree roots are visible in the background.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 6d
A Contemplation of Morning Light

Natural Garden Sitting Area, Portland Japanese Garden .

#PortlandJapaneseGarden #Oregon #Portland #blackandWhitePhotography #artPhotography #photography #BWFri
A Contemplation of Morning Light Natural Garden Sitting Area, Portland Japanese Garden . Square, black and-white photograph. A shaft of light comes in from a slit under the roof at the top left and runs diagonally down through the image, broadening as it goes, exiting the right edge of the frame at the just below the mid-line of of the composition The beam highlights the texture of the back wall of the structure. At the top of the image, one can make out the wooden roof support beams in the shadows. There is also a window in the wall on the left. Light from that illuminates the wooden bench and floor.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 7d
Autumn Red, Portland Japanese Garden

Fall colors are spreading through the Portland Japanese Garden . It hasn't reach peak yet, but the progress of the season is becoming more and more visible.

#fineArtPhotography #artPhotography #photography #PortlandJapaneseGarden #Oregon #Portland #fallColors
Autumn Red, Portland Japanese Garden Vertical color photograph: a red, yellow and black winged seed pod just above and to the left of the image center, and the surrounding blazing red and yellow leaves, is the focal point of the image. It is surrounded in the foreground by more red leaves, though some still have a hint of green, and tips of tree branches. The background is a blur of more autumn red foliage and some green foliage that hasn't yet surrendered to the changing of the seasons. Fall colors are spreading through the Portland Japanese Garden . It hasn't reach peak yet, but the progress of the season is becoming more and more visible.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 8d
Sunset at the End of the Creek

Shot on the Oregon Coast just north of Yaquina Head, where a rocky creek runs across the beach and directly into the Pacific Ocean.

#sunset #photography #OregonCoast #creek #beachCreek #artPhotography #PacificOcean #pnw
Sunset at the End of the Creek Shot on the Oregon Coast just north of Yaquina Head, where a rocky creek runs across the beach and directly into the Pacific Ocean. Vertical color photograph: the creek starts at the bottom of the frame, and runs to the ocean, curving gently to the viewer's left and then more sharply to the right before reaching the tide line. The water is clear. There are rocks, including a small boulder about a third of the way up front the image bottom and on the right, scattered in the creek bed, providing the dominant foreground interest. The rocks Peter out as the creek makes its leftward turn about 2/3s of the way up the frame. The final rightward sweep of the creek leads the eye to the sun setting in a blaze of orange over the Pacific Ocean, rays reaching out across the sea to touch the waves and the beach. The sun is reflected in the water at the tide line. The ocean waves are gentle. Above the sun are two thin lines of clouds parallel to the horizon. Above them are some wispy, horsetail clouds, as the sky transitions from orange to blue.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 9d
Just Before Sunrise, Mount Hood

A cloudless October pre-sunrise scene with Mount Hood, from the Jonsrud Viewpoint in Sandy, OR.

#fineArtPhotography #artPhotography #photography #SandyRiverValley #Oregon #fog #preSunrise #MountHood
A cloudless October pre-sunrise scene with Mount Hood, from the Jonsrud Viewpoint in Sandy, OR. Horizontal color photograph. Layers of tree covered hills and mountains rise from the Sandy valley in the foreground. At the horizon line, about 1/3 the way up the frame, a freshly snow-covered Mount Hood rears above the surrounding mountains. Behind its conical form, the sky starts orange at the horizon, then transitions to yellow and then to white and finally blue. You can see a faint shadow in the sky to the left of the mountain peak: it's cast by the mountain itself, as the sun is still below the horizon. In the upper right corner, a line of geese are flying towards Mount Hood.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 10d
Sun Rays Cutting Through Morning Fog, Sandy River, OR

Taken from Jonsrud Point in Sandy Oregon, which allows you to look across the Sandy River Valley to Mount Hood.

#fineArtPhotography #artPhotography #photography #SandyRiverValley #Oregon #fog #sunRays #blackandWhitePhotography #ClassicMono
Sun Rays Cutting Through Morning Fog, Sandy River, OR Vertical black-and-shite photograph: Perspective is looking down into the valley from a high point. Tall evergreens cut the sunlight into sharp rays that filter through the morning fog along the Sandy River. The tree are in the upper right of the composition, and the beams come diagonally down into the frame, extending to the bottom. Following the sun rays take your eyes down into brightly lit billowy clouds low over the forest and river. Along the bottom part of the image, the half lit Sandy River comes in the from the center of the frame, moving up and then curving to the viewer's left to exit the frame in shadow about 1/3 of the way up. The rest of the frame is forest, softened by the morning mist, even where the sun isn't highlighting it. Taken from Jonsrud Point in Sandy Oregon, which allows you to look across the Sandy River Valley to Mount Hood. The weather forecast hinted at the possibility of a stunning sunrise, but the promised bits of cloud did not appear anywhere near the right part of the sky. Fortunately, fog and mist along the river provided some interesting scenes.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 14d
Snow on the Black Rock Staircase

Dee Wright Observatory, Oregon

Click through and you can see the flying snow.

#fineArtPhotography #artPhotography #photography #DeeWrightObservatory #Oregon #CascadeMountains #snowfall #blackandWhitePhotography #ClassicMono
Snow on the Black Rock Staircase Dee Wright Observatory, Oregon Vertical black-and-white photograph: stairs carved out of black rock ascend a hill, curving right and then left as they head for the round building made from the surrounding ancient lava field. Snow is falling, visible as it streaks in front of the rock. Snow has started accumulating on the rocks and the more exposed upper stairs. The sky is light gray, with streaks from the falling snow.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 15d
The Changes of Autumn

Soon, the Portland Japanese Garden should be ablaze with autumn colors. This is a little preview from the end of September.

#fineArtPhotography #artPhotography #photography #PortlandJapaneseGarden #Oregon #Portland #fallColors #ColoraDay #RedWed
Horizontal color photo: Maple leafs changing color in the Portland Japanese Garden in Portland Oregon. The leaves are wet from a light rain that just ended. In the lover left corner of the frame, a large leaf that has completely changed to red anchors the composition. Moving up, diagonally through the frame, you com to another, smaller leaf, 80% of the transition from green to red, atop several other leaves that are just into the transformation, with red moving up from the tips of the leaves but transitioning to green about 1/3 of the way up.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 16d
Rainy Day Monochrome, Portland Japanese Garden

#fineArtPhotography #artPhotography #photography #PortlandJapaneseGarden #Oregon #Portland #blackandWhitePhotography #ClassicMono
Vertical black-and-white photograph: a building in the Portland Japanese garden is framed but he surround plants. Raindrops glisten on on the leaves of the plants. The buildings peaked roof, wooden sign with Japanese characters and the cedar shingled roof of the porch in the upper half of the image is the focal point of the image.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 18d
Look at the Time! Gotta Fly!

A double crested cormorants takes off from small cove off Yaquina Bay.

Yaquina Bay Estuary Trail Newport, Oregon.

#naturePhotography #photography #birds #OregonCoast #wildlifePhotography #doubleCrestedCormorant #artPhotography #NewportOR
A double crested cormorant takes off from small cove off Yaquina Bay. Horizontal color photograph: the cormorant is moving right to left across the frame. It's launching itself from the water, leaving a trail of splashes behind as it beats its wings to get airborne. The birds feet are still less than a foot above the water, with the the body at a slight upward title and the wings almost at the end of the downstroke. The cormorant has black feathers and yellow bill.The surface of the water is rippled with hundreds of tiny wavelets. Yaquina Bay Estuary Trail Newport, Oregon.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 19d
A California Sea Lion appears to give me side eye while hunting food in the surf at Cobble Beach in the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area on the Oregon Coast.

#naturePhotography #photography #YaquinaHead #OregonCoast #wildlifePhotography #CaliforniaSeaLion #artPhotography #CobbleBeach
A California Sea Lion appears to give me side eye while hunting food in the surf at Cobble Beach in the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area on the Oregon Coast. Horizontal color photograph: the top half of the spotted grey and white head of the sea lion is visible above the foam strewn, blue-green water. In the background, the next wave crashed into the frame full of white foam and flying water droplets.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 21d
Waves After Sunset

Gentle ocean waves and the post sunset sky. Shot on the Oregon Coast just north of Yaquina Head.

#sunset #photography #OregonCoast #artPhotography #PacificOcean #pnw #sunsetSky #Oregon #sunsetSky
Waves After Sunset Gentle ocean waves and the post sunset sky. Shot on the Oregon Coast just north of Yaquina Head. Horizontal color photograph: a wavelet coming from the left corner of the image, with the leading edge starting about 1/3 of the way in from that corner, extends diagonally back into the frame , leading the eye to where it intersects the with low incoming waves just above the mid-point of the frame, and about 1/3 of the way in from the right side. Above the ocean, a think layer of orange-yellow clouds spans the horizon. Smaller streaks and splashes of pink clouds stand out again the blue skies above.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 22d
Yaquina Head Lighthouse After Sunset

If you click through, you'll see the shadow trails of the last birds flying home for the night - an effect of the long shutter speed.

#sunset #photography #OregonCoast #YaquinaHead #birds #artPhotography #PacificOcean #pnw #YaquinaHeadLighthouse #lighthouse
Yaquina Head Lighthouse After Sunset Horizontal color photograph. The Yaquina Head Lighthouse stands against the post-sunset glow. In the foreground, motion blurred by the long exposure, gentle wavelets approach the coast. In the mid image, Yaquida head and the sea stacks just off its point rear out of the ocean, coming into the frame from the left. About a 1/3 of the way into the image, there is a tree, and then the keeps quarters, and then the Lighthouse standing tall, with its beacon lit. The sky beyond and above is warm orange that transitions to a more yellow orange as it you look towards the top of the frame. If you click through and look closely, you'll see shadowy streaks in the sky. Those are trails of the last birds flying to the sea stacks to rest for the night - an effect of the long shutter speed required to capture the failing light.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 23d
UCM = Unintentional Camera Movement.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 23d
Everything's In Motion

Artistic UCM - I misjudged how far the waves were coming up the beach, and the water caused the tripod to sink during the shot.

Shot on the Oregon Coast just north of Yaquina Head.

#sunset #photography #OregonCoast #cameraMovement #birds #artPhotography #PacificOcean #pnw
Everything's In Motion While I've not quit got the hang of intentional camera movement imagery (ICM), I occasionally manage to get something interesting with unintentional camera movement (UCM). In this case, I misjudged how far the waves were still coming up the beach while shooting the post sunset sky, and the water pulling the sand from around the tripod legs caused it to sink during the shot. Color photograph: wavelets on a dark sandy shore lead the eye from the lower left corner of the image diagonally into the frame. Near the mid frame they interest with a darker area of wallets and above that, the vibration oranges transitioning to purples and then blues in the post-sunset sky. The ghosting and blurs caused but eh combine slow shutter speed and camera movement soften the image, giving it a more impressionistic feel. Shot on the Oregon Coast just north of Yaquina Head.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 24d
A female Harlequin Duck swims over a wave as it preps for its next dive in cove of Cobble Beach in the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area on the Oregon Coast.

#naturePhotography #photography #YaquinaHead #OregonCoast #wildlifePhotography #HarlequinDuck #artPhotography #CobbleBeach #birds
A female Harlequin Duck swims over a wave as it preps for its next dive in cove of Cobble Beach in the Yaquina Head Outstanding Natural Area on the Oregon Coast. Horizontal color photograph. The duck is small, with dark brow-black feathers. It has two white spots on its head above and below the eye, and a third spot on the back of the head. It's bill is black with a white tip.It's moving from right-to-left across the image, as you can tell by the wake it's leaving.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 25d
A classic red rose from the Portland International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park in Portland, OR.

#PortlandInternationalRoseTestGarden #fineArtPhotography #artPhotography #photography #WashingtonPark #Oregon #Portland #flowerPhotography #Roses
A classic red rose from the Portland International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park in Portland, OR. Vertical color photograph: a fully bloomed red rose sits atop it stem near the top center of the frame. It is surrounded by green, broken up up by splashes of red where other roses bloom in the center and bottom left of the frame. Near the bottom of the featured rose's stalk, another red rose , on the backside of the stalk, is preparing to reach full bloom.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 26d
Another from the Portland International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park in Portland, OR. So many roses...

#PortlandInternationalRoseTestGarden #fineArtPhotography #artPhotography #photography #WashingtonPark #Oregon #Portland #flowerPhotography #Roses
Portland International Rose Test Garden in Washington Park in Portland, OR. In the foreground, on the right side of the image is a pink rose with a yellow center in full bloom. Behind it, a little up and to the left, is a similarly colored rose a day or two from reaching full bloom. The two colorful flowers are surround by the dark greens of rose leaves.
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Paul Cory @paulcory.bsky.social · 28d
Thank you!
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