Sunset at God’s Pocket by kdmikawa

God’s Pocket Resort, arrival on 10/13/2014

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Sunset at God’s Pocket by kdmikawa

God’s Pocket Resort, arrival on 10/13/2014

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The Punchbowl Gorge by SteveLuther

The peaceful and tranquil Punchbowl Falls Gorge in Oregon’s amazing Columbia RIver Gorge is a special place. Part of the uber-popular Eagle Creek trail – one of the finest hikes in the Pacific Northwest if not the entire USA – the Punchbowl is punctuated by the signature Punchbowl Falls. But to get to the view of the falls is not always easy – often time, and on this occasion, wading into the clear, swift-moving water is required. The result of wet boots and frozen feet is so worth it to get this view!

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Reclamation by BenCoffman

The past three months have been kind of strange. I had my first of two elbow surgeries in October, and it kept me down and out of, well, just about everything for quite a while. My second surgery was just a few weeks ago, but I was going so stir crazy that I thought I’d head up to Mt Hood early Saturday morning anyway, just to see if the clouds would stay away long enough for me to shoot the stars.

Luckily, they did. This is a frozen Lost Lake, with my first 2015 view of the Milky Way in the background. My arm’s been pretty sore for the past few days from the effort of getting up there, so I’ll probably lay low for a bit and continue to heal up.

Anyhow, the title is an allusion to several things: First, it’s kind of a play on the lake’s name. Second, it refers to the galactic center of the Milky Way, which has been hidden for the past few months. And third, it’s a comment on my own healing process and what has been required for me to (hopefully) live a life with a little less pain in my day-to-day activities.

Thanks for checking out the photo.

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Reclamation by BenCoffman

The past three months have been kind of strange. I had my first of two elbow surgeries in October, and it kept me down and out of, well, just about everything for quite a while. My second surgery was just a few weeks ago, but I was going so stir crazy that I thought I’d head up to Mt Hood early Saturday morning anyway, just to see if the clouds would stay away long enough for me to shoot the stars.

Luckily, they did. This is a frozen Lost Lake, with my first 2015 view of the Milky Way in the background. My arm’s been pretty sore for the past few days from the effort of getting up there, so I’ll probably lay low for a bit and continue to heal up.

Anyhow, the title is an allusion to several things: First, it’s kind of a play on the lake’s name. Second, it refers to the galactic center of the Milky Way, which has been hidden for the past few months. And third, it’s a comment on my own healing process and what has been required for me to (hopefully) live a life with a little less pain in my day-to-day activities.

Thanks for checking out the photo.

http://bit.ly/1yAxwM7

Into the Cosmos by MaxFoster

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This was taken on my first night in the Pacific Northwest. We didn’t have any notable sunset, but the skies were clear and primed for some night shots. The wind was the only negative; the foreground flowers were waving around incessantly which made processing this shot quite painful.

A few shots focus stacked for the foreground and one shot for the sky about an hour later.

Location: Mt. St. Helens, Washington

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Surgerunner II by alexnoriega

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Intensely red sunset afterglow permeates low fog, as giant waves recede on the incredible sandstone formations of Oregon’s Cape Kiwanda.

I recently found myself here for about the dozenth time. While similar compositions have been done here before (see Ryan Dyar’s excellent image that initially inspired me to check out this spot a few years back), I’m not going to turn down shooting it again with atmospheric conditions like these coinciding with the proper tides.

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Surgerunner II by alexnoriega

2015 Autumn in Olympic Tour with Alex Mody
Private Workshops and Tours
Private Online Post-Processing Instruction Via Skype
Like my Facebook Page

Intensely red sunset afterglow permeates low fog, as giant waves recede on the incredible sandstone formations of Oregon’s Cape Kiwanda.

I recently found myself here for about the dozenth time. While similar compositions have been done here before (see Ryan Dyar’s excellent image that initially inspired me to check out this spot a few years back), I’m not going to turn down shooting it again with atmospheric conditions like these coinciding with the proper tides.

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Last Call by RyanDyar

Night descends upon Oregon’s Seal Rocks, and I was lucky enough be there to take it all amid crashing waves, glowing moon, and flocks of gulls. The day was spent mostly checking the weather like a compulsive crackhead and murmuring expletives under our breath at the thick fog. But after stuffing our faces at one of my favorite local seafood shacks, we showed up to find clearing weather and promising conditions.

This is a blend of many different exposures all taken within a minute or two. Two exposures for wave action, an exposure for the sky, a zoomed in exposure for the moon (as it was hardly noticeable in a 14mm shot), and an exposure for the seagulls with the is0 kicked up to 3200 to freeze them in flight. Piecing them together was a little time consuming. As my tripod was sinking in the sand and being moved around by getting drilled by wave after wave, the exposures didn’t line up perfectly, and Photoshop has less than stellar when it came to attempting to auto-align them. So I had to manually align them with some focused warping. Not hard to do, just boring and time consuming.

So anyways, I just recently released a new post-processing instructional video. It’s packed with some unique techniques and theories about processing you may not find anywhere else. People seem to really be enjoying the videos and have had nothing but great things to say, so I *think* they are helping people… it’s been awesome to see the many before/after shots people have been emailing me. Be sure to check the videos out if you are into that sort of thing. It’s all on my website, as well as more photos, photo tour info, processing instruction via Skype like everyone else is doing, etc, etc. Also I have a fun tour scheduled next week with Mark Metternich. One of the attendees suffered an injury this week and had to cancel, so we have one spot left if you want to have some last minute fun!

2015 Tour Schedule
Arctic Light Workshop – With Arild Heitmann (FULL)
Winter Wonderland Workshop – With Mark Metternich
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Catching a Glance by BryanSwan

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This was the final night of my four day Larch rampage with Brian Kibbons last fall. I’d been wanting to get to this spot for several years now, but at just about every mention I made, he tried to…lets say “question”… my research on the level of epicness this little lake would offer. But I eventually managed to wrangle him over by mentioning there were supposed to be some Aspen groves on the road up to the trailhead (which kind of turned out to be shitty, but that’s beside the point).

So we hit the trail after having hiked something like 15 miles over the past two days (which, yeah, is really not that much), but this trail went straight. up. the damn mountain. Asses were kicked. Knees were inflamed. Shoulders were made sore. Backs were made sweaty. And while we could see some larch through windows in the forest here and there, not until we reached the high point of the hike – 3 miles and some 2400 feet of gain (2000 feet of which was in the first two miles) in – did we realized just how insane this basin is. There are some pretty nutty alpine Larch areas in Washington, but this might be second only to the Enchantments.

The down side was now finding a campsite. This whole basin is basically an enormous boulder field. Like small car sized boulders. Everywhere. We scouted for a good 45 minutes before we found the one campsite near the lake (and man is it nice), and then settled in, not expecting to get much in the way of sunset color since we were on the east side of this huge 2000-foot tall wall of peaks. But then clouds started rolling over right in time for the sun to start lighting them up, and we summarily reverted to our primate forms, hooting and hollering and air-fiving each other across the outlet stream at the shit that we just witness go down (the next morning was about as skunky as it gets, so it was quite nice to walk away from here with good color).

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