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Rowena Crest, part four - from Hikes of 2024.
This was a stunning hike. I've been up to McCall Point probably close to a dozen times now over the years, and this particular night generated new core memories for me.
For one, Elliot was with me - and though he's not in these first few photos, it meant I had someone to talk to, to exclaim in wonder with, and to photograph. Two - the sunset was amazing. Elliot and I took a packed dinner up with us, enjoyed our peanut butter bagels at the top, and then meandered back down the hill during magic hour. Three - it was SO. WINDY. And Elliot, who had been flagging during the day's previous hike (Rowena Plateau), LOVED the adversity and hilariousness of the wind, and of being blown off balance at times.
I loved this evening so much that my phone's background has featured the same photo for the past year - of my middle son, walking ahead of me, winding his way down the trail through a corridor of yellow wildflowers, with the glow of golds and greens all around him.
Image made with my Hasselblad 500 C/M.
I had planned to go south from Bend, OR to a lake to shoot the Milky Way. But on Thursday I changed plans and decided to head north instead to Rowena Crest on the Columbia River, on Oregon's northern border, to shoot it up there. Just before I left on the Friday I caught wind that there was a strong possibility of seeing auroral activity. Cool! That wasn't why I was heading up there, but catching some aurora action could be a nice little bonus. I had never seen, much less photographed an aurora before.
Needless to say, the aurora became the highlight of the trip!
This scene just blew me away. The multiple colors of the aurora all funneling down into a shape reminiscent of a tornado. It looked nothing like that to the eye, but as it unfolded on my camera screen I could not believe it. Orange? Yellow? And purple, red, different hues of green, and electric blue to boot. Just spectacular! Not bad for a first aurora experience, I must say.
I used a Rokinon 12mm f/2.8 Fisheye manual lens for this 6s shot at f/2.8, ISO 640.
I have seen so many jaw-dropping shots of this epic aurora event from all over the world. What a great moment in time to enjoy and reminisce about with family and strangers alike. Let's do it again sometime soon, okay?! How's next week?
This was a good Spring for wildflowers at Rowena. This was taken just below Rowena Crest along the Old Gorge Highway.
I added some Orton Effect for good measure.
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Almost that time of year again. I can find lots of things wrong with this particular image, but it was one of the best sunrises I got last spring.
One of the good things about looking back at images from the past, is being able to analyze your personal progress as a photographer, and the ability to easily notice mistakes that you no longer make...
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Order from chaos. I think this is just off of Seven Mile Hill Road east of Mosier, Oregon.
Camera: Sinar Alpina 4x5
Lens: 150mm Fujinon
Film: Arista.edu 100 developed in Kodak Xtol
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Rowena Crest. Rowena, Oregon USA
Hours after this shot was taken, another photographer knocked his Canon 6D and tripod off this cliff. Needless to say, nothing survived.
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A glacier Lily blooming in the shadow of Rowena Crest in the Columbia Gorge, Oregon.
Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: 90mm Tamron Macro
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I finally got a new darkroom going. It isn’t optimal, but it will have to do. I printed this just to see if it would be better than the negative scan I posted last week. I think it is. I took the opportunity to make it brighter.
The view from Rowena Crest in the early Spring 2015.
Camera: Deardorff 8x10.
Lens: 240mm Nikkor-W.
Film: Ilford HP5+
Printed on Ilford MGIV developed in Ansco 130
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Sunset with the balsam root flowers at the Rowena Crest. Thanks for viewing.
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I figured this would be a good counterpart to my image from this morning. Only a couple of short months til this will be rolling around again.
Not much else to say. After that long write up on Charlie and his Vietnam photography I am drained of words.... for a day or two, at least.
Oh the photos I wish I had caught!
I have a confession to make.. this photo is cheating. I just had to see if I could do what other people have done so many time and i will tell you straight up this is 2 images blended together. By the time the moon really did show above this ridge, it was after the fire had calmed back down 4 days later. I wanted to learn this basic photoshop technique because it will help with other areas, but I will not be trying to pull the wool over your eyes and pretending something like this is real when it is not. Well, rather, each image is real, the fire and the moon, but they were 4 days apart and really the moon would be a bit farther to the north of this spot I think. That being said, I am interested in knowing if it looks to you as though it could be real,
The real fire set is posted here is anyone is looking for the documentary aspect! The album description gives more information about the fire. www.flickr.com/photos/starlisa/sets/72157646248198311
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I arrived at Rowena Crest just after sunset after a day photographing waterfalls. It took a two minute exposure to fully capture a fellow traveler's transit through the iconic curve, but the result was awesome!
Balsamroot at The Nature Conservancy's Tom McCall Preserve overlooking the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon.
Sometimes you wake up at 5:30 AM and feel the need to jump in your car and drive east until you meet the sunrise.
I set out early yesterday morning searching for a good spot to shoot the sunrise. I headed for Oregon's Columbia River Gorge, a deep river valley containing some of the most magical and picturesque landscape in the Pacific Northwest. The early parts of the Gorge, just outside of the city were covered in thick fog and clouds with intermittent rain. So I kept driving.
The first glimpse of twilight came as I approached Hood River. It was then that I knew I was destined for Rowena Crest - a series of cliffs and bluffs high above the river with the historic Highway 30 spiraling between the cliffs. There are tons of photos of the popular Rowena hairpin turn, seen from the main overlook. This shot is taken from the western side, just along where the Rowena Trail starts. A view I haven't seen often, but includes a view down the Gorge, overlooking The Dalles.
The clouds held as the sun rose, with little peeks of orange and yellow as they undulated like the ocean. Around 7:45 AM, for two minutes and two minutes only, a small break let a brilliant beam of vivid orange light shoot straight down the Gorge like a beacon. I know this was the shot I was meant for. Two minutes later, it was gone, hidden behind blue and purple walls. Over in an instant, but I'll never forget it.
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A wider view of the previously posted Spring Balsamroot and Lupine at Tom McCall Point. Two exposures were combined to increase the depth of field. N03148&49
This auroral burst of pastel and neon colors in the northern sky looked like something out of the psychedelic 70s. Taken at Rowena Crest on the Columbia River Gorge. I used a manual 12mm f/2.8 fisheye lens for this shot.
Nothing as rare as a sunny day here in the Pacific Northwest. And that meant a Saturday getaway to Rowena Crest in the Columbia River Gorge and this wonderful view.
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When I first arrived at Rowena I was awestruck by the fields of flowers that I was sure would offer up compositions galore! Ha! Joke was on me, what it actually meant was run around like a chicken with your head cutoff for an hour while the sunset money shot slips through your fingers. I got to the crest at a little after seven which left me about 45 minutes to really get my stuff together and to nail a shot. I scrambled down to the cliffs near the west side of the crest only to find the sun disappearing behind a mass of black clouds. I was about to give up when I turned to the northeast and saw this massive thunderhead building and low and behold as an added bonus the thing was starting to take on this orange glow. I ran like a mad man back to an area I had scouted out when I first arrived, set up shop in the driving wind (it was seriously windy, like excessively) and got down to business. This is a blend of 4 photos for focus and dynamic range. Well worth the 4 hour drive, I seriously need to get back here for the sunrise!
Rowena Crest, Columbia River Gorge, OR
Twenty-five minutes after astronomical moonrise, the moon scales the distant south wall of the Columbia River Gorge and silhouettes the firs standing sentry against the blue night sky. Viewed from a cliff northwest of Rowena Crest view point.
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I'm retaking some of my pictures with the new camera. I like this spot, which is a short way down from Rowena Crest in the Eastern Columbia Gorge. It's always exciting to try out a new camera to see what it will do with a given scene.
Camera: Hasselblad Flexbody with a CFV 100C digital back.
Lens: 40mm Zeiss Distagon.
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Somewhere near The Dalles, Oregon
Here's my shot of that Old House in the middle of somewhere. I was so happy being out here with so many great photographers. Kudos to Aaron for getting permission for us to be out here. You have no idea how happy I was to be here. This house is crazy cool. I mean really, really cool. I even got to meet an officially famous GTG. With so many great photographers in the same place, it was amazing that I didn't wind up with more shots with people in them. I think because everybody was being respectful of each other. I just want everybody who was out here to know that I enjoyed meeting you and, had a blast shooting with you all.
I stacked my ND 6-Stop and my Polarizer to give me those streaky clouds.
Oh, and a ND soft Grad held in front of my lens.
I figured that since it is an old house, it deserves an old style look to it.
Hope I didn't disappoint!
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Hooray, today is Worldwide Pinhole Day! How could I not post a pinhole photo today? For all of you pinhole photographers out there, there is a website dedicated to today (there are probably quite a few) with an online gallery of photos taken today, you can find it here.
This shot was not actually taken today, but a few days ago with a new film! Actually an old film... for those who have been reminiscing of the days of Maco IR820C, arguably one of the better infrared films available in 120, well good news, it's back! Efke is distributing repackaged Maco IR820C. I was skeptical at first because that is what many rumors claimed of the Rollei IR, which certainly is not the same. So I ordered a few rolls from Freestyle and this was a shot off my first roll. I treated exactly like the old Maco IR and am quite pleased. Nice to find an IR I can easily use in my pinhole with strong results.
This shot was taken up at Rowena Crest in the Columbia River Gorge. I taped a B+W red 29 inside my pinhole and exposed for about 4 seconds. I have missed shooting infrared pinhole so it was quite lovely to get back into it. Enjoy.
I took this picture under Rowena Crest in the Spring of 2018. I call it a “grain fest” because I used very high-speed film, and when viewed large, the grain becomes very evident.
The Zeiss 40mm Distagon lens is prone to flare, even with a lens hood on, but I don’t think it detracts from the picture in this case.
Camera: Hasselblad 500CM
Lens: 40mm Zeiss Distagon
Film: Ilford P3200 rated and developed at 1000 ASA.
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The August 31, 2012, blue moon illuminates a curve on the Columbia River Historic Highway near Rowena Crest in the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon. The Rowena curves are a set of hairpin turns that zigzag their way from riverside to the spectacular viewpoint Rowena Crest at 700 feet above.
There are two definitions for a blue moon. The easy, modern one is the second full moon in a month. The traditional definition is the third full moon in a season that has four full moons. A season (3 months) usually has only three full moons.
Of course, it is the night sky that is blue, The moon remains golden white.
As I climbed Tom McCall Trail on Rowena Crest at the end of September to create a lunar eclipse panorama, I encountered a small herd of 6 Columbian black-tailed deer backlit in the sunset light.
The deer grazed patiently while I setup the tripod and then meandered closer as they curiously inspected this multi-legged invader.
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Rowena Crest, part twenty-one - from Hikes of 2024.
The final (barring two recap images set aside for the end of the year) photo from this hike. This photo is currently the background for my PC, and that's likely to be the case for quite some time still.
Image made with my Nikon F100.
Last weekend there was a few balsamroot still looking OK and there was a little pop of color, enough to make it worthwhile to get up at oh dark thirty to drive out there.
This shot I intentionally did a very close focus on the flowers, so the BG is a bit out of focus. I didn't want to do a focus stack for it.....just see how it comes out.
Black Dog Photography and I went up to Rowena for the sun set. The wind made the flowers tuff to be sharp, since they were blowing around pretty good.
I drove 3 hours to Rowena Crest on Oregon's northern border to shoot the Milky Way last May. It's a popular place for night photography because you get the Milky Way with a horseshoe shaped road in the foreground that lights up in a long exposure with the headlight and taillight trails of cars going to and from the viewpoint. Turns out this night -- May 10th-11th 2024 -- was the night that featured an incredible Kp9 aurora! I did get that Milky way shot that I went there for, which I will post later, but I liked this shot too, of just the foreground, with the sky cropped out. Not to mention all the shots of the jaw-dropping aurora that I grabbed during the all-night spectacle.
This was a single 40-second exposure.