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Vista House and The Gorge

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

Tucker Snocat at 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

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

New Year's Eve hike at 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

Christmas Day at the Meadows

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

Time-lapse: Mount Hood sunset over Trillium Lake

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

Frozen reflection of 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

Tamanawas Falls

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

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

Starvation Creek Trail

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

Cape Kiwanda (revisited)

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

Buried in time (Peter Iredale wreck)

Buried in time (Peter Iredale wreck)

We had some very nice spring-like weather in PDX for last few days so yesterday I drove to Fort Stevens to take some pictures of the shipwreck of Peter Iredale that grounded on the Oregon coast over 100 years ago. Pentax HD Ltd. 20-40mm/2.8-4.0 @26mm f/8

Portland

While waiting for the awesome weather to pass I've been looking through some older pictures and I came upon this one I took last year from one of the apartment buildings in the Pearl. You have to admit downtown Portland is looking preety darn good in the summer

Silver Falls

Last weekend together with a group of friends I went for a hike along the Silver Falls loop, if you're in Oregon for a short time this hike is definitely one you wouldn't want to miss. I did this one last year in the summer and

Sunset at Mount Hood

Sunset at Mount Hood

I have decided that with this spring-like weather and a forecast of clear skies last weekend it's a good time to go for a sunset hike and capture Mount Hood in the soft evening light. I've picked up a Mirror Lake trail hike leading up to

Cape Kiwanda

Recently I've seen some amazing pictures from Cape Kiwanda and decided to make a trip there myself, it's located near to Pacific City, OR around 2h drive from Portland. I was planning to get there for the sunset, unfortunately as it turned out in December the