Quick trip up California/Oregon coast into PNW
p.1 #1Quick trip up California/Oregon coast into PNW
Hi
I haven't been posting much of my work - many reasons and hardly the place to go into them here.
However, I recently helped my brother move his son into college in Bellingham, WA so we made a short, intense road trip from San Francisco Airport up to Bellingham and back. I had a few bucket list locations I want to try and photograph - Bowling Ball Beach, Samuel Boardman State Reserve, Columbia River Gorge, Mt Rainier and The Enchantments. Most of these plans didn't work out because time was too limited.
Bowling Ball Beach - bust. Tide was too high.
Samuel Boardman - Good. No colourful light but moody fog
Columbia River Gorge - Bust. No time.
Mt Rainer - Bust. Too crowded. Instead went to the Cascades which are spectacular
Enchantments - Same as Rainier
Anyway here are my favourites from the trip and a few notes:
Samuel Boardman State Reserve: The ideal photo locations require a dangerous scramble and time spent near cliff edges. The penalty for a trip/slip here is death. I would only suggest trying to get to these locations if you are fit and experienced around heights. Having said that, it is spectacular and I would like to return. The photograph is a panorama shot at 16mm with 5 vertical images stitched. Wished I had a wider lens here.
Cascade Mountains - the hikes and scenery around Washington Pass and Rainy Pass are spectacular. Some of the hikes are hard but well worth it if you can manage it. The wind blew over my tripod and my brand new A7R6 fell off a cliff. I recovered it but it's only it way to the repair shop. Sigh. World's clumsiest landscape photographer - yes that's me.
Tamanawas Falls - Random stop and it turned out to be a beautiful waterfall, well worth the visit.
Cutthroat Peak
Tamanawas Falls
I haven't been posting much of my work - many reasons and hardly the place to go into them here.
However, I recently helped my brother move his son into college in Bellingham, WA so we made a short, intense road trip from San Francisco Airport up to Bellingham and back. I had a few bucket list locations I want to try and photograph - Bowling Ball Beach, Samuel Boardman State Reserve, Columbia River Gorge, Mt Rainier and The Enchantments. Most of these plans didn't work out because time was too limited.
Bowling Ball Beach - bust. Tide was too high.
Samuel Boardman - Good. No colourful light but moody fog
Columbia River Gorge - Bust. No time.
Mt Rainer - Bust. Too crowded. Instead went to the Cascades which are spectacular
Enchantments - Same as Rainier
Anyway here are my favourites from the trip and a few notes:
Samuel Boardman State Reserve: The ideal photo locations require a dangerous scramble and time spent near cliff edges. The penalty for a trip/slip here is death. I would only suggest trying to get to these locations if you are fit and experienced around heights. Having said that, it is spectacular and I would like to return. The photograph is a panorama shot at 16mm with 5 vertical images stitched. Wished I had a wider lens here.
Cascade Mountains - the hikes and scenery around Washington Pass and Rainy Pass are spectacular. Some of the hikes are hard but well worth it if you can manage it. The wind blew over my tripod and my brand new A7R6 fell off a cliff. I recovered it but it's only it way to the repair shop. Sigh. World's clumsiest landscape photographer - yes that's me.
Tamanawas Falls - Random stop and it turned out to be a beautiful waterfall, well worth the visit.
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Cutthroat Peak
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Tamanawas Falls
ILCE-7RM6 FE PZ 16-35mm F4 G lens 17mm f/11.0 1/10s 100 ISO 0.0 EV
Aug 09, 2026 at 11:32 PM
p.1 #2Quick trip up California/Oregon coast into PNW
Beautiful set. Sorry about the camera.
Aug 10, 2026 at 03:43 AM
p.1 #3Quick trip up California/Oregon coast into PNW
Grand photographs, dakel!
Douglas
Douglas
Aug 10, 2026 at 06:27 AM
p.1 #4Quick trip up California/Oregon coast into PNW
Wonderful image set giving sense of reality - living and dynamic images
Aug 10, 2026 at 11:40 AM
p.1 #5Quick trip up California/Oregon coast into PNW
That first photo is quite magical, great mood!
Aug 10, 2026 at 05:41 PM
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p.1 #6Quick trip up California/Oregon coast into PNW
I like the small area of sunlight on the second. Perfect choice of shutter speed on the last one. Photos with a small amount of motion blur in the water are more dynamic that those with really long exposures.--Eric.
Aug 10, 2026 at 07:18 PM
p.1 #7Quick trip up California/Oregon coast into PNW
Very nice! #1 and #3 are my favorites!
Aug 11, 2026 at 08:12 AM
p.1 #8Quick trip up California/Oregon coast into PNW
Beautiful work here, Derrick, and I love the variety. You capitalized very well on your quick road trip.
Aug 12, 2026 at 08:47 AM
p.1 #9Quick trip up California/Oregon coast into PNW
guidostow wrote:
Beautiful set. Sorry about the camera.
Thank you. Yes the camera and lens damage sucks. I've only myself to blame - I forgot to pack my tripods as I was in a rush to leave on time. So on the trip itself, I bought a cheap $35 tripod from Best Buy. I even said to my brother as we were walking out the store that putting an expensive camera on a cheap tripod is a dumb thing to do. Should have just shot handheld.
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douter wrote:
Grand photographs, dakel!
Douglas
Thank you Douglas. Always good to see you around on the forums
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junglialoh wrote:
Wonderful image set giving sense of reality - living and dynamic images
Thanks Jung.
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jgurbisz wrote:
That first photo is quite magical, great mood!
Thank you. I enjoyed your Flickr stream - urban decay, architecture. I like your style.
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gel685 wrote:
I like the small area of sunlight on the second. Perfect choice of shutter speed on the last one. Photos with a small amount of motion blur in the water are more dynamic that those with really long exposures.--Eric.
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adventure_photo wrote:
Very nice! #1 and #3 are my favorites!
Thank you Eric. Appreciate you taking the time to comment.
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Ross Martin wrote:
Beautiful work here, Derrick, and I love the variety. You capitalized very well on your quick road trip.
Hi Ross. Thanks for the comment. I got just a small taste of the PNW and am excited to go back.
Beautiful set. Sorry about the camera.
Thank you. Yes the camera and lens damage sucks. I've only myself to blame - I forgot to pack my tripods as I was in a rush to leave on time. So on the trip itself, I bought a cheap $35 tripod from Best Buy. I even said to my brother as we were walking out the store that putting an expensive camera on a cheap tripod is a dumb thing to do. Should have just shot handheld.
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douter wrote:
Grand photographs, dakel!
Douglas
Thank you Douglas. Always good to see you around on the forums
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junglialoh wrote:
Wonderful image set giving sense of reality - living and dynamic images
Thanks Jung.
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jgurbisz wrote:
That first photo is quite magical, great mood!
Thank you. I enjoyed your Flickr stream - urban decay, architecture. I like your style.
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gel685 wrote:
I like the small area of sunlight on the second. Perfect choice of shutter speed on the last one. Photos with a small amount of motion blur in the water are more dynamic that those with really long exposures.--Eric.
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adventure_photo wrote:
Very nice! #1 and #3 are my favorites!
Thank you Eric. Appreciate you taking the time to comment.
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Ross Martin wrote:
Beautiful work here, Derrick, and I love the variety. You capitalized very well on your quick road trip.
Hi Ross. Thanks for the comment. I got just a small taste of the PNW and am excited to go back.
Aug 12, 2026 at 04:21 PM
p.1 #10Quick trip up California/Oregon coast into PNW
Beautiful set, I particularly love no. 1.
Considering what you said about the hike to get to some places, better that the camera fell than you!
Considering what you said about the hike to get to some places, better that the camera fell than you!
Aug 25, 2026 at 03:14 PM