Behind the Viewfinder

Dog Mountain

Foggy Dog Mountain

With kitesurfing season already in full force - my hiking/photographing time is now in decline. So when I saw that the forecast for last weekend was looking pretty weak (wind- wise) I decided it will be a good time for a hike. The destination was Dog Mountain since the

Vista House

Vista House and The Gorge

A sightseeing road trip with some friends last weekend ended up at Vista House around sunset. I've been there many times as part of other day trips but it was always start of the trip - never an end so this was the first time I got to experience the

Timberline

Tucker Snocat at Timberline

I spent the whole skiing season at Mt. Hood Meadows and never made it to Timberline until last weekend when doing a site-seeing roadtrip with friends from CA. I didn't ski (the snow isn't particularly good now anyway) but I took a couple of shots of the Timberline Tucker Snocat

Abiqua Falls

Abiqua Falls

I have finally saw the Abiqua Falls last weekend. It has been on my waterfalls-to-see list for a long time but there never seem to be a good time to drive there. I drove there on Saturday after a lazy morning and parked about 3 miles from the waterfall as

Hamilton Mountain

Hamilton Mountain

Last weekend I joined a group of friends on a hike to the Hamilton Mountain on Washington side of the Columbia River. First serious hike of the year with more to come (hopefully - unless the kitesurfing season starts sooner than expected). It's always fun to get "lost" in the

Seattle

Rainy weekend in Seattle

I've used the holiday weekend to visit Seattle with my wife as we wanted to explore Seattle Art Museum and a couple of other sites in the rainy city. Weather was perfect for strolling around museums as it was drizzling most of the time and when it wasn't it was

Mount Hood

More winter magic from Mt Hood Meadows

Wow last weekend skiing at Meadows was just awesome. I went up Mount Hood with a couple of friends who were still jet-lagged from their holiday travels but were eager to hit the slopes (and are great skiers). We couldn't have asked for better weather - lots of sun and

Smith Rock

New Year's Eve hike at Smith Rock

I made plans to spend the New Year's weekend skiing on Mount Bachelor in the Bend area with my wife and a couple of friends this year. On our way to Sunriver we decided to use the weather and do a short detour - stop at Smith Rock and hike

Skiing

Christmas Day at the Meadows

Since do all the major celebration of the holidays on Christmas Eve in Poland I decided to use the Christmas Day to head out to Mount Hood Meadows to catch some fresh snow and sun. Dec. 25th turned out to be one of the best days of the season to

Maryhill

Maryhill(s)

This is my third winter in Portland and definitely the most rainy one. Apparently we're getting more rain than usual and even hitting some records. Anyway I ventured east in the Columbia Gorge to chase some sun and ended up in Maryhill on the Washington side of the river. I

Mount Hood

Time-lapse: Mount Hood sunset over Trillium Lake

Finally found the right software to edit my first ever time-lapse sequence I took on Black Friday at Trillium Lake. I've used LRTimelapse4 which worked perfectly and I'm definitely buying the software for future projects. This is just a 12 seconds clip made out of 155 shots. Still a lot

Mount Hood

Frozen reflection of Mount Hood

I had to spend some time working on Black Friday but the weather was too nice to miss out so I decided to cut give myself a break and #OptOutside. I managed to get to Trillium Lake just before sunset. Over just a couple of days the lake had frozen

Pittock Mansion Featured

Sunrise over Portland

So I decided to get up early on the last day of holiday weekend and head out with my friend Diego (http://superzuri.com) to Pittock Mansion to try and capture some nice sunrise shots and maybe do a time-lapse. It felt super cold but well worth it - the

Oregon

Tamanawas Falls

After almost two weeks of constant rain last weekend was forecasted with some nice sunny weather so together with my friend Diego (a traveler and great photographer - check out his blog Superzuri at http://www.superzuri.com) we head out to Mount Hood east slopes to explore the Tamanawas

Dry Creek Falls

Dry Creek Falls

Looking for a hike last weekend on oregonhikers.org I decided on a 4.4 mile out and back to Dry Creek Falls in the Cascade Locks. The hike was very easy with a low incline and was a perfect choice for a rainy fall Saturday. The lush green colors

Wahclella Falls

First signs of fall on Wahclella Falls trail

While the summer is still trying to hold back and I'm trying to cling to its warmth, it seems that fall is definitely approaching. The nature feels that as well and last weekend I've ventured back to Wahclella Falls trail looking for the first signs of fall colors. The falls

Bandon Featured

Bandon and the Milky Way

The road trip to San Francisco with my parents took us down the Route 101 and on the first night we drove from Portland to Bandon, OR where we've stayed at a beautifully located motel (Windermere on the Beach [http://www.windermereonthebeach.com] - I can highly recommend it). The

Columbia River Gorge

Rowena Crest viewpoint

One of the first places I wanted to show my parents is the Gorge which has been my "playground" this summer with almost every weekend spent kitesurfing. And I think one of the most spectacular views of the Gorge are from the Rowena Crest viewpoint, where we came as the

Mount Hood

Ramona Falls

Finally did a hike last weekend. We got some long needed rain that hopefully helped all the firefighters tame some of the wildfires out there. I was staying at a friends house in Mt. Hood area for a birthday/end-of-summer party and decided to do a quick hike - I've

Oregon

Thor's Well

Wow I'm so behind on updates this summer it's embarrasing. I've spent way too much time kitesurfing and not enough hiking and capturing the beauty of Oregon summer. A couple of months ago I visited Newport and did a quick stop at Cape Perpetua to see the Thor's Well for

Cape Kiwanda

#thatPNWrock

Cape Kiwanda makes for a great day road trip with a stop at one of many wineries in Willamette Valley on the way (Sokol Blosser being my personal favorite). And that's exactly what I did last weekend when showing this magnificent piece of Oregon coast to some new friends who

Columbia River Gorge

Starvation Creek Trail

Few shots from my last weekend hike to Starvation Creek - my weekend mornings were rather slow recently due to some fun evening events in Portland, so by the time I've made it to the trailhead the sun was less then optimal to therefore I didn't take any capture of

Europe

Blast from the past (Warsaw)

Weather around here switched to full blown spring/summer with lots of sun and nice warm temperature, therefore my weekend activities switched from hiking to kitesurfing and in result I have fewer picures to show. So today I'm digging out some old pictures from few years ago when I was

Waterfall

Elowah and Latourell in the spring

Last weekend I met some new friends who recently moved to the Portland area and wanted to show them the grandure of Gorge nature. I took them to the Vista House and showed them later few short hikes to Latourell and Elowah waterfalls. I couldn't resist catching few shots of

Sunset

Cape Kiwanda (revisited)

I went back to Cape Kiwanda near Pacific City, OR again last weekend and had some more time to explore the area which is definitely one of a kind on the Oregon Coast. I'm also trying out a new processing flow with more of Photoshop + Color Efex Pro instead of