Like every photographer, I have a “bucket list” of locations I have yet to visit, but where I want to eventually shoot. In the immediate Northwest area, my top “must-photograph” locations going into 2010 were places such as Shi-Shi and Second Beaches, the lavender fields at Sequim, more of the Oregon coast, Crater Lake, and [...]
As much as it galls me, as a Washington resident, to have to admit this, but there’s no better place for tulip-field shooting than Woodburn, in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Don’t get me wrong — the Skagit Valley area north of Seattle still has far more tulip-growing areas than Woodburn, and offers, in Roozengaarde, the best [...]
As the end of the Northwest “shooting season” draws near, I (along with many other of the area’s photographers) find myself rushing to get in as much of autumn as I can before hunkering down to the coming four-to-five months of steady rain, slate-gray skies, bare branches, and brown vegetation. (Not that there’s nothing to [...]
