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Afternoon Light, Steens Mt Massif from the Alvord Desert
This is going back a couple years, but it's easily one of my favorite images from a road trip with Shaun a couple years ago. Such dramatic light, weather and air in this place as the desert meets this chunk of rock.
Another one from this beautiful location. I grew up close by and spent a lot of time here in a lot of different kind of weather. Days like this are the type you just relish as they are a little rarer.
Now that we've officially moved into winter here in the pacific Northwest, I thought it appropriate to post something a little more snow and winter themed.
This image was made on February 7th this year when the kids and I went out for an epic day in the ice covered Columbia River Gorge. We hiked into Elowah falls that day and stopped at Horsetail and Multnomah on the way home. The hike was awesome, with nearly 2 feet of powder covering the trail. This is the thickest I've seen the ice, but I've heard about it getting even more frozen when the cold lasts longer. We've been out and seen some mild freezing over the last couple months, but I'm hoping for a good cold stretch in the new year.
Multnomah Falls can feel a bit pedestrian because of the large crowds and paved trail, but lest you forget about the power of nature, take a look at the bridge closely. It was shut down for a few months earlier this year when a falling rock took out a large chunk of it. It's fixed now, but I love that this image has that detail.
I also have an 12x18" print of this one I've been needing to get up on a wall.
I missed this one from a couple months back. Aisy and I went for a walk with Cooper the dog and she stopped on the pedestrian bridge to test out the wind.
The last time we saw this waterfall, it was almost completely iced over. Same crew - me and all three kids. We hiked both trails and even spent some time hiking down stream a bit for this first image.
These kids are troopers and they get more and more at-home in the great outdoors every year.
