A dramatic cloud cover creates a unique look at Lake Billychinook near Madras, Oregon.

Peaceful scene on the Oregon coastline.

I shot this in Oregon during a beautiful fall day. Enjoy!

Haystack rock frames the image on the left and tidepools fill the foreground for this late afternoon photograph of Oregon's Pacific coast.

Taken on a trip last year to the Oregon coast. The multi-monitor image is the superior image.

Canon EOS 50D, Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM.

Taken at sunrise inside Harris Beach State Park in Oregon. I really like how the break in the clouds affects the composition. I used my Canon 50d.

The Strawberry Mountain Wilderness is located east of John Day, Oregon, in the Malheur National Forest. The area includes approximately 68,700 acres. The entire northern section of the mountain was burned in a large fire in 2002, which is why the trees halfway up the mountain look dead and bare. I was driving through here in the beginning of April, and stopped to take a few photos along the way.

Canon EOS 7D, Canon 17-40mm F/4L.

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Crater Lake in Oregon. This lake was created by a volcanic explosion which blew the top off of Mount Mazama. Now it is one of the deepest lakes in the world. When the water is perfectly still, the lake has a vivid deep blue color to it.

This was taken with a Nikon D90, Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR, with slight post-processing in Adobe Lightroom 3.

Located in the Colombia River Gorge, Oregon. The total height of the two steps of the waterfall is 620 feet.

Nikon D700, Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.4G.

This image was taken on a hiking trip in February of 2010, in the Painted Hills Unit of the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument. I had just gotten a new camera so on my way back from Central Oregon I stopped to hike some of the trails and take some pictures. It was a nice and clear sunny day, and not too cold - perfect for hiking that area. I took this at the first parking area and trail.

The gray layers are mudstone, siltstone, and shale formed from sediments deposited on an ancient river floodplain. The black layers are manganese nodules or manganese stains. The red layers are ancient soil profiles (laterites) that formed on floodplain deposits. Surface weathering relatively quickly breaks down these rocks into a clay-rich surface coating that easily erodes during summer flashfloods and/or winter storms.

Canon EOS 7D, Canon 17-40mm F/4L.

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