Category: Nature Photography

Go With The Flow

Posted on December 3, 2025December 3, 2025 by Greg Vaughn

Looking out my office window at dawn this morning, I saw dense fog. Excited, I grabbed my photo backpack, jumped into Rusty, and drove over to Mount Pisgah Arboretum. Forest and fog is one of my favorite photo subjects. I...Read More

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

Mount Rainier and reflection in Upper Tipsoo Lake at sunrise;

Mount Rainier Timed-Entry Permits

Posted on May 11, 2024July 10, 2025 by Greg Vaughn

Summer 2025 Update: This year the timed entry permits are only required for the Sunrise Corridor on the northeast side of the park. Permits are no longer required at the west side Nisqually Entrance or the southeast entrance at Ohanacopesh....Read More

10 Tips for Photographing Fall Color

Posted on October 12, 2023April 17, 2024 by Greg Vaughn

If you are like most nature and landscape photographers I know, long about late summer you're really looking forward to the changing of the seasons and hitting the trail for some fall color photography. Here are some tips for creating...Read More

Top 10 for 2022

Posted on January 8, 2023January 9, 2023 by Greg Vaughn

It's a new year and I'm making my way home from Mexico with a drive up the Baja Peninsula. Not rushing this trip and taking time to review the past year. I'm way behind on processing the photographs I made...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

Dusk over the striated pinnacles and gullies of Badlands National Park in South Dakota, USA.

My Top Ten Photos of 2020

Posted on December 21, 2020January 19, 2021 by Greg Vaughn

Bandon Beach sunset, southern Oregon coast. Wrapping up 2020, I think we can all agree that it has been a challenging year. With all of my photo workshops canceled and other plans for travel very much curtailed, I ended up...Read More