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Bandon and the Milky Way

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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

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

#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

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

Cannon Beach Sunset

Cannon Beach Sunset

I went surfing with few friends earlier this month to Indian Beach and from the clouds I could see that the sunset will show some spectacular colors, so I've moved to Canon Beach made a fire and waited. I know sunsets are cliche but I cannot resist when

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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Iredale] that grounded on the Oregon coast over 100 years ago. Pentax HD Ltd.

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

Pacific coast in all it's glory

Pacific coast in all it's glory

It's a new blog but I have quite few photographs from 2013 as well as last summer, since I did mention how I enjoy the Pacific NW let me start with showing some of my favourite shots from Cannon Beach and the magnificent forests that surround it plus