Category: Photography

Fall Color Report – Mt. Lassen to Mammoth Lakes, California

Posted on September 28, 2014November 12, 2014 by Greg Vaughn

[caption id="attachment_1512" align="aligncenter" width="695"] Aspen grove at Conway Summit, US Hwy 395 on 9/28/14.[/caption] For the past couple of days, I've been traveling south from north central California to the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, with an eye out...Read More

Seasons Change – Summer to Fall

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Greg Vaughn

After a long, hot and much drier than normal summer in western Oregon this year, the seasons are changing right on cue with the Autumn Equinox. Photographers, and nature lovers in general, are eagerly anticipating the time when leaves go from...Read More

50th Anniversary of The Wilderness Act

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Greg Vaughn

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Hiking Salmon Lakes Trail in the Oregon Cascades

Posted on August 30, 2014May 9, 2025 by Greg Vaughn

[caption id="attachment_1471" align="aligncenter" width="434"] Salmon Lakes Trail, Willamette National Forest.[/caption] Mention any place in Oregon you visited with “Waldo” in the name and anyone who knows the central Cascades will ask, “How bad were the mosquitos?” Waldo Lake, one of...Read More

Photographing Washington Wins IBPA Award

Posted on June 4, 2014June 4, 2014 by Greg Vaughn

I am very happy to announce that my book Photographing Washington won Silver in the Travel category in the Independent Book Publishers Association annual Benjamin Franklin Awards. The IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, which includes fifty-two categories recognizing excellence in book editorial and...Read More

Sierra Skies

Posted on April 30, 2014November 18, 2025 by Greg Vaughn

[caption id="attachment_1431" align="aligncenter" width="686"] Sierra Nevada Mountains from Owens Valley.[/caption] Landscape photographers love the Sierra Nevada range not just for the majestic mountains but also because the skies are often filled with dramatic cirrus and cumulous clouds. I drove for miles...Read More

Columbia River Gorge Wildflower Report

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Greg Vaughn

[caption id="attachment_1419" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Lupine and balsamroot, Columbia Hills State Park, with the Columbia River and Mount Hood in the distance.[/caption] Want to photograph wildflowers at their peak in the Columbia River Gorge? Now’s the time. I’ve been wandering the...Read More

Wildflowers blooming at Mount Pisgah

Posted on March 14, 2014November 12, 2014 by Greg Vaughn

[caption id="attachment_1385" align="aligncenter" width="675"] Trillium (aka Wakerobin) blooming at Mount Pisgah Arboretum.[/caption] With just a few days of warmth and sunshine following weeks of cold and rain, the wildflowers have started blooming at Mount Pisgah Arboretum here in Oregon's southern...Read More

Top 10 Places on the Big Island for Nature Photography

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Greg Vaughn

[caption id="attachment_1368" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Lava from the Pu'u O'o eruption flowing into the ocean.[/caption] For a number of years I had the good fortune to live on the Big Island of Hawaii. The largest in size (but not population) of...Read More

Top 10 Places on Maui for Nature and Landscape Photography

Posted on February 18, 2014February 20, 2014 by Greg Vaughn

A photographer friend who purchased my Oregon and Washington guidebooks, and who knew that I lived in Hawaii for many years, recently asked for recommendations on the best places on the islands of Maui and Hawaii for landscape photography. Like...Read More