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Doe in the Cattails

Deer grazing amidst the cattails close to the road in the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge in Washington state.

#Washington #RidgefieldNWR #artPhotography #photography #NationalWildlifeRefuge #fineArtPhotography #deer #PNW #wildlifePhotography
Horizontal color photograph: A female Deer grazing amidst the cattails in the rain close to the road in the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge in Washington state. The foreground and background are yellow, out-of-focus cattails, with the occasional green leaf. The deer's head is just to the right of image center. The ears are perked up, and the deer is gazing just to the right of the camera. At the bottom left of the frame, the top of the deer's back Is visible through the reeds. The deer is brown, with black eyes and black-rimmed ears that have white fur in the inside.
December 6, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Pretty, Deadly

Foxglove, Ecola State Park, Oregon Coast.

#Oregon #EcolaStatePark #artPhotography #photography #OregonStateParks #fineArtPhotography #Foxglove #PNW #flowerPhotography
Foxglove, Ecola State Park, Oregon Coast. Vertical Color photo: Reddish-Purple foxglove flowers against a wash of green. The flowers mark up the stalk from the lower left corner of the image to the upper right corner.
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Stars of the Sea Shore

Ochre Sea Stars and Aggregating Anemones, and one bold Periwinkle, Ecola State Park Tide Pool, Oregon Coast.

#Oregon #EcolaStatePark #artPhotography #photography #OregonStateParks #fineArtPhotography #OchreSeaStar #PNW #OregonCoast
Ochre Sea Stars and Aggregating Anemones, and one bold Periwinkle, Ecola State Park Tide Pool, Oregon Coast. Vertical Color Photograph: The dominant feature is the large purple Ochre Sea Star in the upper half of the center of the frame. Right below it, nestled between two of its widespread legs, is a large aggregating anemone. Snugged up against the lower right side of the anemone is and orange ochre sea star, and a bold periwinkle. Just below that in the center bottom of the frame is another purple ochre sea star. Other aggregating anemones are scattered around the frame.
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Moss Covered Trees, Silver Falls State Park, Oregon

View from the trail to North Falls.

#Oregon #SilverFallsStatePark #artPhotography #photography #OregonStateParks #fineArtPhotography #Moss #PNW
Moss Covered Trees, Silver Falls State Park, Oregon. Vertical Color Photograph: int he foreground, moss-covered tree limbs and trunks, with a particularly curved, multi-branched limb coming in from the upper left side. Brown leaves stuck on the moss dot the branches, indicating it is late fall.
December 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The Trail Goes Ever Onward, and Where it Leads I Cannot See

A trail at Ecola Beach State Park on the Oregon Coast disappears into the morning fog.

#Oregon #EcolaStatePark #artPhotography #photography #OregonStateParks #fineArtPhotography #Fog #PNW #OregonCoast
The Trail Goes Ever Onward, and Where it Leads I Cannot See A trail at Ecola Beach State Park on the Oregon Coast disappears into the morning fog. The worn path, which is barely one person wide, enters the frame just to the viewer's left to of mid-bottom. It describes a gentle S-curve as it winds between grasses, flowers, and tall shrubs to either side, heading into the fog-shrouded distance where tall evergreens are barely visible through the mist.
December 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Detail, Upper North Falls, Silver Falls State Park, Oregon

Classic, black-and-white treatment. Shot with a 300mm focal length.

#Oregon #SilverFallsStatePark #artPhotography #photography #OregonStateParks #fineArtPhotography #waterfall #PNW #UpperNorthFalls #ClassicMono
Water plunges and braids its way down the face of Upper North Falls in Silver Falls State Park in Oregon. Vertical, black-and-white photograph.
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
North Falls, Silver Falls State Park in Oregon.

The North Fork of Silver Creek pouring over North Falls as viewed from under the overhanging cliff.

#Oregon #SilverFallsStatePark #artPhotography #photography #OregonStateParks #fineArtPhotography #waterfall #PNW #NorthFalls
North Falls, Silver Falls State Park, Oregon. The North Fork of Silver Creek pouring over North Falls as viewed from under the overhanging cliff. Horizontal color photo: from the top right corner to the upper left, the basalt overhang blocks the sky, creating a semi-cavern. An arc of of green and yellow and brown created by moss and plants surrendering to the changing seasons describes another semicircle along the cliff below. The creek thunders in from the upper left, plunging dramatically to the rocks below and then running past a quintet of tall evergreens on the right side of the image.
November 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Upper North Falls, Silver Falls State Park, Oregon

If you can score a parking spot, this is a short, mostly level, walk with a big payoff.

#Oregon #SilverFallsStatePark #artPhotography #photography #OregonStateParks #fineArtPhotography #waterfall #PNW #UpperNorthFalls #WaterfallWednesday
Upper North Falls, Silver Falls State Park, Oregon. Vertical color photograph: white water pours over the edge of a short cliff, braids its way down over striations int he cliff face, and down into the shallow creek below. Trees line the creek above the drop. Various low ridges of rock are visible above the water level of the creek in the foreground.
November 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
North Falls, Silver Falls State Park in Oregon.

Buoyed by recent rains, The North Fork of Silver Creek roars over North Falls in Silver Falls State Park.

#Oregon #SilverFallsStatePark #artPhotography #photography #OregonStateParks #fineArtPhotography #waterfall #PNW #NorthFalls
Buoyed by recent rains, The North Fork of Silver Creek roars over North Falls in Silver Falls State Park. Vertical Color Photograph. At the top of the image, basalt cliffs topped with moss-covered evergreens converge to a point about 1/5 of the way down from the top and in from the image left. From there, a roaring plume of white water plunges 136 down to crash onto the boulders and then wind its way down towards the next waterfall. Vines and shrubs with some clinging remnants of autumn colors are in the foreground and on the rocks of the far shore.
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Mushroom, Upper North Falls Trail, Silver Falls State Park

The rains and dark of the late autumn have arrived here in Oregon, and the fungi are here for it.

#Oregon #SilverFallsStatePark #artPhotography #photography #OregonStateParks #fineArtPhotography #Fungi #PNW
Horizontal color photograph: A brown-white mushroom erupts from the dark soil of the forest floor along the Upper North Falls Trail in Silver Falls State Park in Oregon. It is just to the viewer's left of center. A tree root sprinkled with green moss runs diagonally from the lower left corner of the frame to the upper right, going behind the mushroom. fallen, decaying leaves of yellow brown and black cover the ground behind the root. To the viewer's right of the mushrooms are a few, fresher fallen leaves, and a mix of moss thin blades of grass. Everything is wet and glistening with the morning dew.
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Positive Skull Says Love More, More Love

Skidmore Street I-5 Overpass, Portland, Oregon

#Oregon #Portland #artPhotography #photography #Urban #fineArtPhotography #KeepPortlandWeird #GuerillaArt
Positive Skull Says Love More, More Love Skidmore Street I-5 Overpass, Portland, Oregon Horizontal Color Photograph: A red plastic skull with the eye sockets painted black is affixed to a green post on the bridge. To the viewer's left and right the widely spaced mesh of the fences along the bridge are visible, and in the background, I-5. In gold paint, the Love More is written on the right eye socket, and More Love on the left one. To the viewer's left, a white vehicle is visible heading north on I-5.
November 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Showman and the Persistent

A fallen leaf on a green plant, Portland, Oregon.

Fall in Oregon is strange for someone who's spent their life south of the Mason-Dixon Line. So much remains green.

#Oregon #Portland #artPhotography #photography #Waterfall #fineArtPhotography #AutumnColors #PNW
A fallen leaf on a green plant, Portland, Oregon. Square color photograph: a red orange leaf covered in the water droplets from recent rain glistens on a set of dark green leaves of a plant that refuses to heed the changing of the seasons.
November 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Race to the River

Recent rains have Bridal Veil Creek roaring as it races down to meet the Columbia River.

#Oregon #BridalVeilCreek #artPhotography #photography #OregonStateParks #fineArtPhotography #ColumbiaRiverGorge #PNW
Bridal Veil Creek roaring as it races down to meet the Columbia River in Oregon. Horizontal color photograph: white water surges through the grey-black boulders of the creek bed, lacing and threading around the larger stones, overwhelming the smaller ones, and rushing over rocky edges. Some of the stones on the right edge of the Fram are moss-covered, and brown, fallen leaves dot the stones throughout.
November 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Autumn in The Creek

Fallen leaves amidst the rocks of Bridal Veil Creek. The bottom of Bridal Veil Falls is visible in the background. Look for the tiny insect on the leaf.

#Oregon #BridalVeilCreek #artPhotography #photography #fineArtPhotography #AutumnColors #ColumbiaRiverGorge #PNW
Autumn in The Creek Fallen leaves amidst the rocks of Bridal Veil Creek. The bottom of Bridal Veil Falls is visible in the background. Look for the tiny insect on the leaf. Vertical color photograph: a striking, huge, yellow leaf on a small, dark gray-brown boulder would dominates the foreground of the image. Behind it, other small boulders and rocks poke out of the clutter of older, brown, fallen leaves cover the water's surface along the edge of the creek. Further back, you can make out the white water of the creel's main channel. Beyond that is ferns and mossy tree trunks are visible on the leaf-strewn opposite bank of the creek. And even further back, you can see the very bottom of Bridal Veil Falls peeking out from behind the narrow opening between the opposite bank as massive boulder.
November 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The Big Leaves of Fall

Autumn colors on the steps of a staircase at Multnomah Falls. Leaves bigger than my hands, and I've got big hands.

#Oregon #MultnomahFalls #artPhotography #photography #fineArtPhotography #AutumnColors #pnw #ColumbiaRiverGorge
Autumn colors on the steps of a staircase at Multnomah Falls. Leaves bigger than my hands, and I've got big hands. Horizontal color photograph: wet stone steps glisten in the early morning gloom of a rainy, misty day at the Multnomah Falls viewing area. The steps are dark gray-to-black, and the the leaves are brownish, except for three large, freshly fallen ones that that are still brilliant yellow, and describe an arc from the lower left to the upper right of the composition.
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Autumn at Multnomah Falls4

Upper Multnomah Falls, surrounded by fall colors, as seen from the parking area in the middle of I-84.

#Oregon #MultnomahFalls #artPhotography #photography #Waterfall #fineArtPhotography #AutumnColors #ColumbiaRiverGorge #stunday
Autumn at Multnomah Falls4 Upper Multnomah Falls, surrounded by fall colors, as seen from the parking area in the middle of I-84. Vertical color photograph: Multnomah Falls plunges down the sheer cliff from between mist shrouded trees.Along the edge of the cliff and a ledge partway down the cliff face, small trees and shrubs add gold and orange to the dark greens of the evergreens. In the foreground, taller trees resplendent in the gold-range-red of autumn emerge from behind a cliff to slope diagonally down from the middle left of the image to the lower right corner, interrupted just to left of the image center line by a towering evergreen.
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Autumn at Multnomah Falls 3

Upper Multnomah Falls, as seen from the bridge. Note the thin, secondary falls on the right - during the dry summer, that's not there.

#Oregon #MultnomahFalls #artPhotography #photography #Waterfall #fineArtPhotography #AutumnColors #ColumbiaRiverGorge #pnw
Upper Multnomah Falls, as seen from the bridge. Note the thin, secondary falls on the right - during the dry summer, that's not there. Vertical color photograph: Multnomah Falls plunges down the sheer cliff from between mist shrouded trees. The water crashes into the small plug basin, and then races past a boulder and down a small cascade on its way to the Lower Falls. The lower reaches of the cliff face have brilliant patches of yellow orang from where small trees have found a ledge to perch on. The banks of the creek are green, with patches of yellow autumn color.
November 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Ribbons and Rivulets

Upper falls of Multnomah Falls. The wind was ripping at the main plunge of water spreading the spray into mist and causing undulations in stream.

#Oregon #MultnomahFalls #artPhotography #photography #Waterfall #fineArtPhotography #ColumbiaRiverGorge #pnw #ClassicMono #BWFri
Ribbons and Rivulets Detail from the upper falls of Multnomah Falls. The wind was ripping at the main plunge of water spreading the spray into mist and causing undulations in stream. Vertical black-and-white photograph: The main stream of water plunges through the center of the frame, spreading out as it gets towards the bottom of the Rame and the wind spreads the misty spray wide. Behind the main plume of water, smaller rivulets cascade down the rock face like mini waterfalls.
November 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Ribbons and Rivulets

Detail from the upper falls of Multnomah Falls. The wind was ripping at the main plunge of water spreading the spray into mist and causing undulations in stream.

#Oregon #MultnomahFalls #artPhotography #photography #Waterfall #fineArtPhotography #ColumbiaRiverGorge #pnw
Ribbons and Rivulets Detail from the upper falls of Multnomah Falls. The wind was ripping at the main plunge of water spreading the spray into mist and causing undulations in stream. Vertical color photograph: The main stream of water plunges through the center of the frame, spreading out as it gets towards the bottom of the Rame and the wind spreads the misty spray wide. Behind the main plume of water, smaller rivulets cascade down the rock face like mini waterfalls. Near the top, a thing mossy ledge adds a green accent.
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Autumn at Multnomah Falls 2

Multnomah Falls, as seen from the lower falls viewpoint- aka: the classic view.

#Oregon #Portland #MultnomahFalls #artPhotography #photography #Waterfall #fineArtPhotography #AutumnColors #ColumbiaRiverGorge
Autumn at Multnomah Falls 2 Multnomah Falls, as seen from the lower falls viewpoint- aka: the classic view. Vertical color photograph: in the center of the frame, the upper falls plunge down from the tree-lined, mist shrouded cliff top behind the famous bridge over the lower falls. The lower falls thunder over their shorter drop and churn the plunge pool into white froth. A huge log juts out from the near bank of the plunge pool pointing just to the left of the lower falls. The cliffs around the lower falls are adorned with trees bearing the golds and oranges of autumn. At the bottom of the image, small trees growing up towards the view point trace the curve of the plunge pool below.
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Autumn at Multnomah Falls 1

There was wind and mist from the waterfall, and rain and wind from the sky, and occasional low clouds drifting through.

#Oregon #Portland #MultnomahFalls #artPhotography #photography #Waterfall #fineArtPhotography #AutumnColors #ColumbiaRiverGorge
Autumn at Multnomah Falls: vertical color photograph. In the foreground, tall trees clad in the yellow-orange hues of autumn. In the background,, the waterfall, engorged from recent rains, thunders down the sheer cliff and the under the famous bridge. Mist clouds the view of the top of the cliff.
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The Pre-Dawn Show Above the Awakening City

Glorious colors in the pre-dawn sky above Portland, Oregon. Shot from the Pittock Mansion west of downtown.

#Oregon #Portland #beforeTheSunrise #artPhotography #photography #Urban #fineArtPhotography #colorfulSky #worthGettingOutofBedEarly
Glorious colors in the pre-dawn sky above Portland, Oregon. Shot from the Pittock Mansion west of downtown. Vertical color photograph: The trees of the klower reach of the Tullatin Mountains are visible in the foreground at the bottom of the image. Next, the skyscrapers of downtown Portland, Oregon, rear up. The lights of cars ferrying people to their jobs are visible. Beyond, the folded mountains of the western Cascades march into the mist covered distance until Mount Hood's cone pierces the sky. And behind and above that distinctive mountain, an orange band along the horizon fades from red-orange to yellow-orange. Above that, the thin clouds glow red and slowly, slowly fade to purple at the very top of the image.
November 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Golden Waves Above

The rising sun illuminates great waves on a the sea of fog . Somewhere, below, lurk the skyscrapers of downtown Portland.

#Oregon #Portland #fog #artPhotography #photography #sunrise #fineArtPhotography #WavesintheSky
he rising sun illuminates great waves on a the sea of fog . Somewhere, below, lurk the skyscrapers of downtown Portland.
November 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
And The Fog Swelled and Swallowed The City

Fog swallows Portland, Oregon at dawn. Shortly after this, the rising fog bank erased the city's skyscrapers entirely from view.

#Oregon #Portland #fog #artPhotography #photography #CllassicMono #fineArtPhotography #urban #blackAndWhitePhotography
Fog swallows Portland, Oregon at dawn. Shortly after this, the rising fog bank erased the city's skyscrapers entirely from view. Horizontal black-and-white photograph. Waves of fog highlighted by the rising sun blanket the image. In the middle left of the frame, a rectangular skyscraper pokes out above the fog. Just too the right, and a little lower, the more ornate top of an older skyscraper is disappearing into the fog.
November 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Welcome to the Garden

A foggy morning during peak autumn colors in the Portland Japanese Garden.

#PortlandJapaneseGarden #Oregon #Portland #fall #artPhotography #photography #autumnColors #fog #fineArtPhotography
Welcome to the Garden A foggy morning during peak autumn colors in the Portland Japanese Garden. Vertical color photo. The lower entrance to the Portland Japanes Gardens is a roofed break in a white wall. Surrounding the walkway and the structure at the lower elevations of the hill, are splashed of intense yellow, orang and read fall colors. Huge evergreens rear out of the hill and extend up into the fog and out of frame. If the far background, you can just make out the building at the top of the garden complex.
November 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM