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Sunset on The Dalles, Columbia River Gorge.
Taken during the recent photoworkshop with Adrian Klein and Kevin McNeal.
No HDR - processed the RAW file and boosted contrast a bit. Shot just before sunset with the sun behind me. The winds were blowing fiercely so shot at ISO 1250 to keep the flowers still as possible.
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Continuing on the theme of transportation, my morning walk in the Oregon city of The Dalles had another surprise in store for me: Down by the Columbia River, I found this gorgeous classic paddlewheeler named American Empress. She is a large river cruise ship and passengers definitely travel in style on this one! The views of the landscape, including spectacular Mt. Hood, must be fantastic!
The cruises travel from Portland, Oregon, up the Columbia and Snake River all the way to Clarkston at the Washington/Idaho border. The cost is around $3000. She was built in 2002 on Whidbey Island in Washington and has room for 223 passengers.
Mount Adams seen through burnt trees southwest of The Dalles in Wasco County, Oregon. I believe this was along Dutch Flat Road.
This area is periodically swept with wildfires. Just the previous Fall, the large substation fire burnt 80,000.acres west of here.
We just got back from a visit in Washington. We still have family there! First, we flew into the Portland, OR, airport. Our youngest daughter, just had a baby boy in mid-November, to add to their first child, a daughter...so we visited them first. Then we rented a vehicle and drove up to the Tacoma-Puyallup area to visit our son and his family. They just finished having a son, as well, in May, not long before we had to move. They, too, have a boy and a girl now!
This is the Columbia River, or Columbia River Gorge, as taken from the Oregon side. For those that don't know, the Columbia River is what separates Washington state from Oregon. It's always a beautiful sight, although kinda desolate in places.
I actually managed to capture this while we were driving. I don't suggest it, but thankfully, it did turn out well! Hope you enjoy!
Columbia River Gorge
Just west of The Dalles
Interstate Hwy 84
Rowena, Oregon
120621
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One of several decaying buildings from the Indian Shaker Church and Gulick Homestead, a 19th century ensemble of historic buildings located in The Dalles, Oregon.
In the background is The Dalles Bridge. It opened in 1953 and is already going through a bridge deck replacement project meant to make the bridge safer and smoother for travelers.
The Gulick Homestead has been around since the 1890's and, though it was added to the NRHP in 1978, there hasn't been a single repair project to my knowledge. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, please. Thank you!
The small city of The Dalles has a nice historic downtown. I enjoyed a pleasant morning walk there. Just as I was getting ready to snap a shot of this unexpected sight of a carriage, a tiny micro-car passed and the beautiful horse gave me a look like, "Are you kidding me?!"
Barn and Mt Hood on Pine Hollow Road in Wasco County near Dufur, Oregon, south of The Dalles.
This area is so amazing. So many breathtaking views of old buildings and mountains.
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I have tried repeatedly to get a picture of clouds and sun on the hills on the Washington side of the Columbia Gorge just west of The Dalles. I may have come close to getting it right this time. I took the picture from the Oregon side.
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The Dalles, Oregon
This old sign feels like a friend to me now. I've been back here to photograph it so many times, always hoping to catch it in the right light. If there are regulars who eat at the cafe attached to it, and I suspect there are, they must think I'm nuts.
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2018 was a banner year for my photography. I was living in the Columbia Gorge, I was starting to het the hang of digital cameras, and it was a dramatic Autumn that year. I had a camera at the ready daily.
I love it when a river gets quiet, and still. On rare occasions in the Eastern Columbia Gorge, the river adopts a mirror sheen, and reflects the semi-arid hillsides, and anything else that sits in the water, like a sternwheeler.
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The Granada Theater stands out from the midst of the Commercial Historic District in The Dalles, Oregon. This theater is said to have been the first theater west of the Mississippi to show a "talkie". It was built in 1929 and was added to NRHP on November 4, 1986.
A pair of Chicago & North Western GEs find themselves a long way from home rails, leading a Seattle, Washington to Hinkle, Oregon manifest freight through The Dalles, Oregon on July 4, 1995. The CNW and UP merged in April of 1995.
What a lucky evening. I had spent several hours on backroads south of The Dalles, Oregon unsuccessfully looking for photo opportunities, when I turned a corner and unexpectedly came across the lovely and often-photographed abandoned Fairfield house. The day had been dreary, gray and drizzly, but the clouds in the West cleared for about 15 minutes while I took this photo.
Update 10/12/2018. Very sorry to say that this homestead burned to the ground in July in a huge prairie fire that devastated 78,000 acres. Oregon lost one it's most famous and loved abandoned places.
Slicing through McClure Lake and the Columbia River towards Mosier, WA, Union Pacific move a westbound army train with 7208, 5362, 6752 and 7689 providing the power.
Tuesday 25th April 2023
The Dalles is a historic city along the Columbia River, just east of Hood River which was our two day base. It is the largest city on the river after Portland, and it's full of Native, Lewis & Clark and Oregon Trail history. This beautiful riverboat was docked for resupply on it's 6 day journey while the passengers were returning from an on land bus excursion. HFF!
An eastbound Union Pacific Z train with brand new power rolls away from Mt. Hood. The train is on the segment of double track east of The Dalles, Oregon.
The huge nose on this SD60M, combined with the postage stamp sized UP shield, demonstrates why fans begged UP to bring back the streamliner wings in the 1990s.
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This is from about 2 years ago. 2018 was a productive year for my photography. Having access to all of those wonderfully delapidated houses was especially fun. The Substation Fire, and a few other recent fires burned down a few of these beauties, but I managed to capture them to present here.
Camera: Nikon D810
Lens: 90mm Tamron Macro
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This is one of 16 murals in the small city of The Dalles in Oregon. The unusual name of the city originates from a French word and refers to "the rapids" in the Columbia River. Archeological evidence has shown habitation here by Native Americans for at least 10,000 years.
The site is near the end of the Oregon Trail and much history has happened here, one of the reasons The Dalles Mural Society has set out to preserve this heritage.
Painted by Gary Kerby. Text on the mural:
"Sahaptin Medicine Man
In the days before white settlers the medicine man of the Sahaptin speaking people of the Wyam area (Celilo Falls) had great powers and lived away from other tribal members.
His duties consisted of all things of the body and spirit as well as being a voice of the land to bring the renewal of abundance to the natural world especially the seasonal return of the spawning salmon, the nusook."
Little boxes. People live in them.
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Wheat field, cherry orchard and sky north of Dufur, Oregon in Wasco County. I think the name of the orchard or the road was 'Tres Amigos'.
Recently harvested wheat fields in Wasco County, Oregon, right before sunset. Just south of The Dalles. I had been looking for this kind of crop pattern all day, since 6:00am. 15 min later, and the hills were in shadows.
Exquisite, isn’t she? Probably the most photographed abandoned house in the state. Located out in the middle of nowhere in eastern Oregon between The Dalles and Dufur this old Victorian home is as charming as ever, enticing photographers from all over the Pacific Northwest. The area is picturesque and quiet. So much that all I could think during my photo shoot was….I could definitely live on this road.
It was your comments that made me realize I had a theme of transportation going here, and that really is the story of this town situated on the Oregon Trail. The distances involved in the great American West are gigantic, and the arteries of transportation directly determined the patterns of settlement. Here on this morning, literally within a few hundred meters of each other, I had photographed a horse and wagon, a river boat and a train - all the main characters of very recent history in this area.
On a different note, Blanca was rather terrified of the locomotive that made the ground shake as it went by!
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This is The Dalles, Oregon, as seen from Washington across the Columbia River.. The days are getting warmer, and infrared is working better. I’ve moved away from using autofocus lenses for infrared. My old, manual lenses work much better because they have infrared marks on them, and I can focus where I want.
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Seems like everyone photographs this house in Oregon at one time or another. I hadn't visited in two years, so it was high time to go back.
Combines harvesting a hilly wheatfield on a very hot day in August in Wasco County, Oregon, south of The Dalles, Oregon.
One of the first photos with my new 'super zoom' camera.
Thanks to the hand throw turnouts used to get from the Oregon Trunk to the Union Pacific mainline, we were easily able to beat the 1995 UP excursion train from O.T. Jct to this vantage at The Dalles Dam. The domes would be a nice place to take in the scenery as the train rolled along Lake Celilo.
This is a rescan of a previously posted image.
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The light was astounding.
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