Top 10 for 2022
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
Category: Photography
Summer Lake Wildlife Area
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
NANPA Showcase Awards
Balsamroot overlooking the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. I’m truly honored that one of my photos was judged best in the landscape category in this year’s NANPA Showcase competition. You can read about the photo and a bit about my...Read More
Creating a Preset to add Metadata on Import in Lightroom
Including your name, copyright, and contact information in your images should be an important part of your workflow photo editing. Embedding that information as metadata in your photographic files is like putting an address tag on your luggage. Wherever the...Read More
Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls Update
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
My Top Ten Photos of 2020
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
Devils Tower National Monument
Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming. President Theodore Roosevelt declared Devils Tower to be the first National Monument in the United States on September 24, 1906. Interestingly enough, this was ten years before the National Park Service was established. The 867-foot...Read More
Top Spots for Fall Color in Oregon
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
Windblown Poppies
Windblown poppies; Carrizo Plain National Monument, California. Several months ago I put together a very detailed plan for a month-long road trip to Baja California, Mexico that included stops on the return to some of southern California's best wildflower locations....Read More
First Signs of Spring
[caption id="attachment_15293" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Indian Plum or Osoberry (Oemleria cerasiformis); Mount Pisgah Arboretum, Willamette Valley, Oregon.[/caption] Looking at my Lightroom catalog, I realized that I hadn't done any serious photography for the whole month of January. That, and a day...Read More