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Mount Washington is a deeply eroded volcano in the Cascade Range of Oregon. Made mostly of mafic (rich in magnesium and iron) volcanic rock like subalkaline basalt and basaltic andesite, it has a volcanic plug occupying its summit cone and numerous dikes.
The wilderness area is not heavily used, though it has a number of hiking trails. Wildlife is sparse in the region. Vegetation is mostly limited to pines and shrubs.
With an elevation of 7,795 feet (2,376 m) above sea level Mount Washington is located in Deschutes and Linn counties.
This image was taken on the east side of the mountain which has a different look than the more popular north side images.
Here's the second shot of our winter outing yesterday. The Sea to Sky Series.
A view of the mountains south of Mt Baker in Washington. Viewed from 0 Ave in Aldergrove.
Washington Square Park in the heart of Greenwich Village, New York City. The arch, constructed of white Tuckahoe marble, stands 77 feet tall and was fashioned after Paris's 164-foot-tall Arch de Triomphe. Towering in the background, at right, is One Fifth Avenue, a beautiful Art Deco building where I used to stay whenever I ventured into the Village.
For the number of times I've spent the weekend in Douglas County, it's surprising that there are still roads I've never been down and scenes I've never shot.
I was driving up a hill and entering a cut, and I knew there would be a homestead on the other side. It just seemed right. It was the land and just how they did things.
I stopped at the crest and found a shot, trying out a couple of lenses before settling on the 135mm. I thought for sure that the 270mm would work better - and I used it for a full frame shot right after this.
But for this one, I wanted to show how the three buildings - barn, workshops, and house - interacted with the land. Especially with how the land is farmed now that the buildings are abandoned.
When these were inhabited, there would have been a lane carved up to the house and into the barn. There might have been a path or walkway to the shops. But now, it's just a field, maybe newly planted, maybe left fallow for the year.
Still, I fell in love with this little scene and I'm glad I shot it.
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'Let the Fields'
Camera: Chamonix 45F-2
Lens: Steinheil München Anastigmat Actinar 4.5; 135mm
Film: Fomapan 100
Exposure: f/18; 18125sec
Process: FA-1027; 1+14; 9min
Washington
May 2023
Una malinconica immagine della città in cui viene deciso il destino del mondo. Washington è un luogo difficile da comprendere, sembra ci abiti il mondo intero che corre per arrivare non si sa dove. Di Italia ne avevo vista pochissima, mentre era tangibile la sensazione di sentirsi straniero. La salutai senza promettere a me stesso di tornarci, nonostante ne apprezzai le tante splendide attrattive, in primis il cimitero (autentico monumento nazionale) di Arlington, con la tomba del presidente J. F. Kennedy, luogo da visitare almeno una volta nella vita, dove la sosta si accompagna a uno stato d'animo che è giusto non provare neanche a descrivere. Quella malinconia di fondo mi è rimasta dentro, immutata dopo due anni, quasi come un'essenza trasmessa attraverso chissà quali vie da un grande angolo di mondo che per sua natura deve proiettarsi da qui all'eternità.
Washington, 18 agosto 2024
The late summer roads are deep with dust from a rainless season of travel. Each passing tractor and truck digs more earth out of roadbed, sinking the road little by little each year. The dust on top is finer than Double 0 flour. Driving in it is similar to driving in snow, though the skills to do one don't necessarily transfer to the skills to do the other.
When driving summer roads blind, just to see where they end up, conditions can change quickly. You can move from these deep ruts of dust to driving on grass or along the sharp edge of a freshly-harvested wheat field.
These roads are hardly driven by anyone but farmers and the rare photographer. Stopping along them is usually not an issue, as even the busiest will see only a few cars a day.
Most of these roads are closed in winter so that emergency workers won't have to risk their lives to drag out a stranded motorist. It also frees up resources as they don't have to be plowed.
Then in spring, a quick grading by a dosser of some kind and they're back to nearly regular dirt roads.
In the dry, later days of spring, these summer roads are packed earth. But by August, the dust lays several inches deep.
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'The Opposite Affect'
Camera: Mamiya RB67
Lens: Mamiya-Sekor 3.8/90mm
Film: Ilford HP5+ at 1600iso
Process: HC-110B; 11min
Washington
August 2022
The exact same location and very slightly different composition as a previous image, this time a few hours later in the day. The first one was taken just before dawn, this one at mid morning.
It goes to show just how transformative light is when it comes to landscape photography.
Mount Baker glacier-covered andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington in the United States. Mount Baker has the second-most thermally active crater in the Cascade Range after Mount St. Helens. About 30 miles (48 km) due east of the city of Bellingham, Whatcom County, Mount Baker is the youngest volcano in the Mount Baker volcanic field. While volcanism has persisted here for some 1.5 million years, the current volcanic cone is likely no more than 140,000 years old, and possibly no older than 80–90,000 years. Older volcanic edifices have mostly eroded away due to glaciation.
After Mount Rainier, Mount Baker has the heaviest glacier cover of the Cascade Range volcanoes; the volume of snow and ice on Mount Baker, 0.43 cu mi (1.79 km3) is greater than that of all the other Cascades volcanoes (except Rainier) combined. It is also one of the snowiest places in the world; in 1999, Mount Baker Ski Area, located 9 mi (14.5 km) to the northeast, set the world record for recorded snowfall in a single season—1,140 in (29 m; 95 ft).
Mount Baker is the third-highest mountain in Washington and the fifth-highest in the Cascade Range, if Little Tahoma Peak, a subpeak of Mount Rainier, and Shastina, a subpeak of Mount Shasta, are not counted. Located in the Mount Baker Wilderness, it is visible from much of Greater Victoria, Nanaimo, and Greater Vancouver in British Columbia, and to the south, from Seattle (and on clear days Tacoma) in Washington.
(Wikipedia)
Autumn golden sunset (with a bit of smoke).
The US Pacific Northwest contributes a huge amount of the nation’s produce. Harvest season - Autumn or Fall if you prefer - is also a time of wildfire smoke impacting the human, animal & plant life of this area.
Washington grows 8B pounds (3.63B kg) of the 11B pounds of US apples produced in 2025 & has been the leading apple-growing State since the early 1920s.
In fact, WA leads also in pears, raspberries & blueberries - and has a significant grape harvest.
Grapes 1648
Lovely little town, with a wonderful old hotel that has been restored with marvelous care and consideration. If you ever get over that way, please stay there.
Subway trains enter and leave the station as people head out to work and explore the Washington Metro area. The Washington Metro, known colloquially as Metro and branded Metrorail, is the heavy rail rapid transit system serving the Washington metropolitan area in the United States. Metro is the third-busiest rapid transit system in the United States in number of passenger trips, after the New York City Subway and Chicago “L”.