Category: Destinations

places to visit and locations for photography

Fall Color in the Oregon Cascades

Posted on October 26, 2025October 26, 2025 by Greg Vaughn

It's looking like 2025 is a banner year for photographing fall color in Oregon's Cascade Mountains. I spent a delightful day cruising Aufderheide Memorial Drive, aka West Cascades Scenic Byway, aka Forest Road 19, and found conditions better than I...Read More

Fort Rock, Oregon

Posted on July 10, 2025July 12, 2025 by Greg Vaughn

Rising up out of surrounding sagebrush desert, Fort Rock is a towering jagged rock formation, technically a tuff ring, set in an ancient seabed. It is also perhaps the most famous anthropological site in Oregon, as a pair of 9,000–year...Read More

Podcast Interview

Posted on May 8, 2025October 26, 2025 by Greg Vaughn

My friend and fellow Muench Workshops pro Matt Payne has interviewed a great many photographers who I consider to be among the very best in the nature and landscape genre. So it was a great honor when Matt asked me...Read More

Cat and Kittens

Posted on March 29, 2024March 29, 2024 by Greg Vaughn

The Cat and Kittens sea stacks at Bandon Beach on the southern Oregon Coast. Penelope and I spent a few days at Bandon on the southern Oregon Coast this week. Bandon Beach has been one of our favorite places in...Read More

Summer Lake Wildlife Area

Posted on April 21, 2022April 21, 2022 by Greg Vaughn

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gregvaughn/51993545808/in/dateposted-public/ Summer Lake Wildlife Area is one of the best places in Oregon to view and photograph migrating waterfowl, shorebirds, and other waterbirds. Similar to a national wildlife refuge but managed by the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife (ODFW),...Read More

Latourell Falls in the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon.

Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls Update

Posted on April 14, 2021April 14, 2021 by Greg Vaughn

Latourell Falls in Guy Talbot State Park, Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Oregon. The Eagle Creek Fire in September 2017 devastated much of the forest surrounding many of the waterfalls on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge...Read More

Mount Hood and the Hood River Valley with fruit tree orchards in fall color.

Top Spots for Fall Color in Oregon

Posted on September 17, 2020July 9, 2025 by Greg Vaughn

Mount Hood and Hood River Valley in Autumn. Autumn has long been the favorite season of many nature and landscape photographers. Changing weather and the brilliant colors of leaves provide great opportunities for getting out and capturing the beauty and...Read More

photograph of Bead Lily flowers and leaves

Wildflower Walk: Bead Lily

Posted on July 31, 2020May 9, 2025 by Greg Vaughn

Bead Lily, Willamette National Forest, Cascade Mountains, Oregon. On a wildflower hike in Oregon's Cascade Mountains last week I came across this lovely clump of Bead Lily next to the trail and under the canopy of a diverse old-growth forest....Read More

What I’m packing for my next photo trip.

Posted on November 21, 2019May 9, 2025 by Greg Vaughn

This is sort of like the "What's in the bag?" posts that are common on many photographers' blogs, but instead of listing all of my gear in this post I want to talk about what I'm taking for a specific...Read More

Raven flying over a sandstone rock formation in the Catavina desert of central Baja California, Mexico.

Rocks and Ravens in Baja’s Cataviña Desert

Posted on June 18, 2019December 17, 2019 by Greg Vaughn

[caption id="attachment_15168" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] Rock formation and ravens in the Cataviña desert boulder field, Baja California, Mexico.[/caption] On my road trips driving the length of Mexico's Baja peninsula, I always stop in an area of granite boulders in the Cataviña...Read More