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Fall Photography in Washington: My Favorite Locations and How I Photograph Them Fall is one of my favorite seasons to photograph in Washington. Between the red huckleberry covering the mountain slopes, golden larches in the North Cascades, colorful maples around Seattle, and brilliant foliage lining rivers and waterfalls, there is no shortage of subjects. But […]

How I Captured the Milky Way at Mount Rainier Planning the Composition For years, I’d envisioned photographing the Milky Way at Mount Rainier that combined everything I love about Pacific Northwest landscape photography into a single image. My goal wasn’t simply to photograph the Milky Way over the mountain. I wanted a composition with colorful

How to Choose Between Wide-Angle and Telephoto Waterfall Photography McDowell Creek Falls Park is one of Oregon’s most rewarding destinations for waterfall photography. This beautiful collection of waterfalls provides an ideal setting to explore how different composition techniques can transform a scene. During this trip, I photographed four unique waterfalls and compared wide-angle and telephoto

Photographing Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls on Windy Spring Days Spring is one of my favorite times of year to photograph waterfalls in the Columbia River Gorge. The waterfalls are flowing strong from snowmelt and rain, the moss is incredibly vibrant, and the forests take on that deep green Pacific Northwest look that makes the area

This is one of the most colorful moments of the year in Washington, when the hillsides near Wenatchee are covered in blooming balsamroot and, shortly after, vibrant lupine. In this vlog, I’m out in the field photographing these scenes and walking through exactly how I approach them using focus stacking and exposure blending to handle