Summer Vacation Part1

I have decided to take a few days and blog some of my images from our trip to Oregon in June. I have posted some of these and hope not to duplicate them again but as I was looking through them the other day I realized how many I had not done anything with and figured that I would put them here. 

Of course you have your own free choice to look at them. For me it will be a way to share them with the family that was there. I have prepared a DVD for them with the family pictures included but very few of the scenery ones that they waited on me to take. So this will give them a chance to see them without having to load their hard drives down with them.

So here goes something!

This was the first day as Marie and I drove down the Columbia River Gorge toward Portland.We had no more than left the freeway and started down the frontage road when this little buck came out of the brush and probably wanted to cross the road to get to water but as his luck (and Mine) would have it I was in his path and stopped for several pictures of him which that changed his mind for a few minutes at least as he turned away and went back into the brush.

Multnomah Falls. Very beautiful and this is our third time to stop and photograph them. It was early morning so the sun was just above the falls and made it very difficult to get good images. I tried anyway wanting to improve on the last ones I had taken but I was not as successful as I had hoped. The lesson in this experience is to try to always shoot images during several times of the day and the seasons. My other two trips included photographing these falls in the late afternoon during the summer and the mid-morning during a snowstorm in December. All three times rewarded me with totally different images of the same exact place.

The side roads are always fun to photograph in Oregon as many of them are lined with beautiful trees that create a canopy under which you drive sometimes for miles. I have always loved trees that draped over a road and created the tunnel type of atmosphere. It reminds me of the deep south and their old plantations that would often have the roads lined with the old oak trees. I have always loved that look.