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The 2022 Columbia Flyway Show

This year the annual Columbia Flyway Show was held in Astoria for the first time. For the past ten years[…]

This is the end of summer. I’ve already spent 24 days in the wilds this year. It’s time to close[…]

While wildfires raged in the Cascades, I spent some time in the Ochoco highlands. The smoke restricted photo opportunities, and[…]

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. Henri Cartier-Bresson I’m nowhere near completing my first 10,000 photographs, even counting[…]

In early August. we drove up to the Sawtooth Berry fields. Last year this time the berries were past their[…]

I remember feeling like a failure so often on my journey because so many of my dreams never materialized… I[…]

I had great plans for this holiday weekend, a short trip to the Gifford Pinchot Forest. I would get some[…]

In the dim reaches of the past I carried an Olympus OM-1 trying to photograph nature. I can think of[…]

Oregon is commonly thought of as a wet, green state. In fact, over one-third of the state is desert and[…]

In south central Oregon, next to the sandiest part of the Oregon Desert, improbably grows a stand of Ponderosa pine. […]