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Sun setting in the smoky sky over the mountains to the west of Medford Oregon. From Prescott Park, Roxy Ann Peak.
Owyhee (oh -WHY- hee) Reservoir or Owyhee Lake is a reservoir on the Owyhee River in Malheur County, Oregon. Located in far Eastern Oregon near the Idaho border, the reservoir is Oregon's longest at 52 miles (84 km).
The name of the lake is from the older spelling of "Hawaii." It was named for three Hawaiian trappers, in the employ of the North West Company, who were sent to explore the uncharted river. They failed to return to the rendezvous near the Boise River and were never seen again. Due to this, the lake and its region were named "Owyhee.
Best view is Large, click on image..
This pano consists of 16 vertical images shot at 23mm. The master file is over 16,000 pixels long.. So this web version does it no justice. The Oregon Cascades...
View looking up at one of the many pretty trees there in the forest of Silver Creek Falls in Oregon.
HTT :)
Thor's Well, the famous blow hole at the Oregon coast near Yachats, Oregon, blowing water at high tide (see www.atlasobscura.com/places/thor-s-well). Captured in April 2021, with a film era smc Pentax 77mm F1.8 Limited lens.
On this trip it was fun trying to come up with a variety of different compositions given the same subject and viewpoint.
For this shot, I found these rocks that are emerging from the still lake reminded me of the rocks placed in a zen garden.
They help to balance and ground the composition by introducing some visual weight at the bottom of the image, in addition to the depth they bring by being in the foreground.
Let me know what you think!
Drove past quite a few barns in northern Oregon. This is one of the them we past by.
Northwest Oregon, USA
Peter Iredale was a four-masted steel barque that ran ashore October 25, 1906, on the Oregon coast in route to the Columbia River. She was abandoned on Clatsop Spit near Fort Stevens in Warrenton about four miles south of the Columbia River channel.
A view from one of the many overlooks in the park. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. Wizard Island to the rear of the lake.
. . . . from the top of the Cascade Head Trail with a view of the Salmon River Estuary. . .one of the most beautiful natural states we have visited.
The fruits are not actually grapes. Oregon-grapes are species of flowering plant, in the family of Berberidaceae. It's a shrub that grows to 3 feet tall with spiny leathery leaves that resemble holly. Photographed in a botanical garden in Ontario, Canada.
Was out for a drive when we found this horse shoe in the hills. I jumped out of the car and struggled up a steep muddy hill to get this shot. Was it worth it? Yes.
The Owyhee River is a tributary of the Snake River located in northern Nevada, southwestern Idaho and southeastern Oregon. It is 346 miles (557 km) long. The watershed of the river was part of region inhabited by the Shoshone and Bannock Indians. The name of the river is from the older spelling of "Hawaii." It was named for three Hawaiian trappers, in the employ of the North West Company, who were sent to explore the uncharted river. They failed to return to the rendezvous near the Boise River and were never seen again. Due to this, the river and its region were named "Owyhee.
Our first snow fall of the winter season.
The fresh snow flocks the old growth Douglas fir trees up on Peterson's Butte, just a short distance from my home.
I hope you all had a Merry Christmas, and I am wishing you all a fantastic New Year!
No use of my winter landscape image without my permission! Thank you so much.
INDIAN BEACH OREGON
(Temporarily Out of Service) I am limiting the number of images that I will be posting on Flickr for the next several months as I will be recovering from surgery. To keep active, I plan to post some of my older images and continue to favor and comment on the individuals I follow here. Hope to be back in full picture taking mode ASAP.
This is one of the many bridges in Oregon along Highway 101. I took it with my cell phone through the passenger side window.