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If you go down to the woods today.....

This was one of those days when nothing seemed to go right. I had driven up the mountain and into the forest in search of interesting things to take pictures of...

Sunrise over East Portland

This is another one of those images that happened almost as an after thought. I had risen early (that would be around 3am - yes, such a time does exist) and hea...

The black door

I love to write about the images I produce. Sometimes they are just about how I processed the image, while some images have a story behind their capture which i...

Roots and White water

Somewhere high up in the mountainous forest is a small unnamed stream of unimaginable power. Every year when the snow melts this stream turns into a raging torr...

Punch Bowl Falls over the years

Punch Bowl Falls is located on a short spur trail off of the Eagle Creek trail in the Columbia River Gorge. Its a beautiful falls with a nice cool swimming hole...

Tanner Creek

Back in the Columbia River Gorge, this is Tanner Creek, which is just to the South of Bonneville Dam. The trail runs for about a mile up into the canyon before ...

Fairy Falls

Of all the waterfalls in the Columbia River Gorge, Fairy Falls is my all time favorite. It's not very tall at just 30ft, and is dwarfed by its big Sister Multno...

Snow at Latourell Falls

Latourell Falls in the Columbia River Gorge is one of my favorite waterfalls, partly because it's the one closest to home, being just fifteen minutes away by ca...

The bicycle

Sometimes it is amazing what we miss when we are out and about. I have lived in this town for more years than I am willing to admit to, and spent much time expl...

Blackberries at Sunrise

So one morning back in the summer of 2019 I rose before the crack of dawn as photographers sometimes do, so that I could go to a venue I had discovered in Portl...

Introducing myself to the Steemit community

Hi everyone, my name is Colin, and I am a photographer. Not a professional photographer, more of the enthusiastic amateur photographer type. I have a pen name, ...