W/NW The Pacific Northwest

[Evergreen States]

Oh, I'm here in New Mexico looking at all the lush green foliage and water in these shots. So envious; and at the same time, so many of you in the Northwest would love a visit to the deserts of the Southwest! Funny how that works...

Despite the precipitatious reputation of the Pacific Northwest, much of eastern Washington and Oregon is a semi-arid climate. Not quite a desert technically speaking, but it looks and feels like one.

 

[Doug]

Right, not a desert, but rather dry, with sagebrush. I believe the term for this inland northwest area is "shrub-steppe"

 

[DwF]

Our wine country in Eastern Washington is a wonderful aspect of the Pacific Northwest. The Walls is winery located in the town of Walla Walla, Washington, and is over by the Maximum Security Penitentiary there. This bottle is from a batch using the Tempranillo grape, in this case grown and harvested in Oregon, the wine is made in Washington.

I recall hearing when I visited this winery, the first attempt to grow Tempranillo grapes in "the rocks" vineyard just south and across the river in Oregon, was a success. These rocks, desirable for the sediment similar to a region in France, have a particularly strong affect on the Tempranillo grape because of extreme temperatures they reach at both ends of the spectrum. The second 2015 attempt was not particularly successful. This 2016 was a third attempt by the vintner and very successful. The Wonderful Nightmare ( who's name borrows from Hemingway) reflects the outcome of more than this vintage but the whole experience of getting there.

Exposure here with 50 Summilux @ f1.4 reflecting on my own inability to grasp my dreams with much clairty, but also my occasional nightmare.

David

 

[the_jim]

No Clos Radio by Jim Fischer, on Flickr

No Clos Radio by Jim Fischer, on Flickr

No Clos Radio by Jim Fischer, on Flickr

All: Kiev 60, Carl Zeiss Jena 80mm f/2.8 Biometar MC, Kodak Portra 160 (expired 2018)

Having grown up in western Oregon, it's easy to take all of these beautiful conifers for granted. I sometimes wonder how they would look to someone that hadn't been around them for most of their life. I kinda think palm trees are cool, but maybe if I'd grown up around them I wouldn't find them as special.

 

[DwF]

Rolleiflex 3.5F -HP 5 Plus

 

[dexdog]

Newport, Oregon 2012, Sony Nex-7

 

[dexdog]

Columbia River Valley 2015

 

[dexdog]

US Fish and Wildlife Service NIsqually River wildlife refuge, Washington in 2012. This site is a big tidal marsh.

 

[boojum]

Ha! It’s true. Grass is always greener…

Where I live we have gotten ~111" rainfall annually for over the last ten years. Now how does it sound?

Here is today off my back porch:

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[rhl-oregon]

in the Yachats River basin, low tide / Bronica RF, 45/4

 

[rfaspen]

in the Yachats River basin, low tide / Bronica RF, 45/4

Um. Let's not tell anyone about Yachats, please. My wife would like to get a house there. Prices are bad enough without irresponsible photographers making it worse 😕 😉

 

[rhl-oregon]

Freshwater rivulets coming off the hills into the beach north of Heceta Head / RF645 65/4, Ektar

 

[rhl-oregon]

A few more, flowing into a different area

 

[rhl-oregon]

Masonic Cemetery, Eugene
sunrise through morning fog





Eugene Skinner, for whom the city is named, is buried here. So is my first wife, and others I knew. Several of the older cemeteries in this PNW town now balance caretaking the forest which has grown up around the dead with preventing the forest from absorbing the graves.



Foglight through massive trees is characteristic of the PNW from the Cascades west through the Coastal Range, though in cemeteries it is particularly poignant.

 

[Evergreen States]

Touchet, Washington
3 June, 2021

Fuji GA645
Ektar 100
http://Touchet by Pierre Saget, on Flickr

 

[rhl-oregon]

Sahalie Falls in the rain, Oregon Cascades
Sony A7, OM 50 1.8

 

[rhl-oregon]

the family at 5:30am, Amazon Slough near Junction City, Oregon

 

[Evergreen States]

Another shot at Alta Lake from our week in Whistler in August 2021. My partner and I each rented electric assist bikes and hit the trial. There's a portion of Rainbow Park on both the east and west shores. This is the dock on the western shore. There was a cute little crêpe truck out there that was completely unexpected. The proprietor who runs it is a really fun French lady with whom I was able to practice my French. There was a family fishing at the dock.

The entire 8 day trip I took one camera, my Fuji X-Pro1, and one lens, my XF Fuji 35mm ƒ/1.4. Sometimes I wished for a longer lens but I was overall extremely satisfied. A fast 50 is all I really need.
http://Alta Lake by Pierre Saget, on Flickr

 

[Evergreen States]

Washington State University
Pullman, Washington
4 May 2023

Fujifilm X-Pro3
Fujifilm 35mm ƒ/1.4 & 14mm ƒ/2.8

 

[Evergreen States]

Washington State University
Pullman, Washington
4 May 2023

Fujifilm X-Pro3
Fujifilm 35mm ƒ/1.4 & 14mm ƒ/2.8