Natural Beauty

I am always in awe of landscape photographers. My landscape photography skills are not in alignment with my appreciation for the natural world. I love being outside, being surrounded by all the features of earth... hillsides, trees, running water, intricate buds forming on crooked branches. My eyes can see a myriad of colors, shades, textures, pockets of light, and on and on and on, but I don't see the same depth of detail or characterization of the scene in my photographs.

Maybe that is why it has taken me so long to post these? Maybe I haven't been as uber busy as I thought; perhaps it has just been my stinkin knack at procrastination that has been in the way? Stupid virgo perfectionist tendencies? Who knows?

Oh well... hahahaaha

Here are some pics from back in mid-February on a day trip to Portland. DMA had a work event and I had the day off; it was nice to be along for the ride! Following a tip from one of dma's colleagues, we headed east to explore Multnomah Falls.


It was a challenging place to photograph; there were tons of people there, and many, many photographers have been there before. It was beautiful though. But c'mon... what super tall waterfall isn't beautiful?

I took a bunch of landscapes, but I could tell from my little d80 lcd that they were going to be less than fantastic. I found a few of my close-ups (well, closer than the falls anyway!) that I liked.


The only hesitation that I have in being more proud of these images is that there are probably a bunch out there just like them. I mean, there were tons of photographers there... in the middle of a cloudy work day! Oh well, it was still a wonderfully nice day; good times for sure :)

Thanks for checking out the pics!