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The Big Leaves of Fall

Autumn colors on the steps of a staircase at Multnomah Falls. Leaves bigger than my hands, and I've got big hands.

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Autumn colors on the steps of a staircase at Multnomah Falls. Leaves bigger than my hands, and I've got big hands. Horizontal color photograph: wet stone steps glisten in the early morning gloom of a rainy, misty day at the Multnomah Falls viewing area. The steps are dark gray-to-black, and the the leaves are brownish, except for three large, freshly fallen ones that that are still brilliant yellow, and describe an arc from the lower left to the upper right of the composition.
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Autumn at Multnomah Falls4

Upper Multnomah Falls, surrounded by fall colors, as seen from the parking area in the middle of I-84.

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Autumn at Multnomah Falls4 Upper Multnomah Falls, surrounded by fall colors, as seen from the parking area in the middle of I-84. Vertical color photograph: Multnomah Falls plunges down the sheer cliff from between mist shrouded trees.Along the edge of the cliff and a ledge partway down the cliff face, small trees and shrubs add gold and orange to the dark greens of the evergreens. In the foreground, taller trees resplendent in the gold-range-red of autumn emerge from behind a cliff to slope diagonally down from the middle left of the image to the lower right corner, interrupted just to left of the image center line by a towering evergreen.
November 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Autumn at Multnomah Falls 3

Upper Multnomah Falls, as seen from the bridge. Note the thin, secondary falls on the right - during the dry summer, that's not there.

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Upper Multnomah Falls, as seen from the bridge. Note the thin, secondary falls on the right - during the dry summer, that's not there. Vertical color photograph: Multnomah Falls plunges down the sheer cliff from between mist shrouded trees. The water crashes into the small plug basin, and then races past a boulder and down a small cascade on its way to the Lower Falls. The lower reaches of the cliff face have brilliant patches of yellow orang from where small trees have found a ledge to perch on. The banks of the creek are green, with patches of yellow autumn color.
November 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Ribbons and Rivulets

Upper falls of Multnomah Falls. The wind was ripping at the main plunge of water spreading the spray into mist and causing undulations in stream.

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Ribbons and Rivulets Detail from the upper falls of Multnomah Falls. The wind was ripping at the main plunge of water spreading the spray into mist and causing undulations in stream. Vertical black-and-white photograph: The main stream of water plunges through the center of the frame, spreading out as it gets towards the bottom of the Rame and the wind spreads the misty spray wide. Behind the main plume of water, smaller rivulets cascade down the rock face like mini waterfalls.
November 7, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Ribbons and Rivulets

Detail from the upper falls of Multnomah Falls. The wind was ripping at the main plunge of water spreading the spray into mist and causing undulations in stream.

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Ribbons and Rivulets Detail from the upper falls of Multnomah Falls. The wind was ripping at the main plunge of water spreading the spray into mist and causing undulations in stream. Vertical color photograph: The main stream of water plunges through the center of the frame, spreading out as it gets towards the bottom of the Rame and the wind spreads the misty spray wide. Behind the main plume of water, smaller rivulets cascade down the rock face like mini waterfalls. Near the top, a thing mossy ledge adds a green accent.
November 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Autumn at Multnomah Falls 2

Multnomah Falls, as seen from the lower falls viewpoint- aka: the classic view.

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Autumn at Multnomah Falls 2 Multnomah Falls, as seen from the lower falls viewpoint- aka: the classic view. Vertical color photograph: in the center of the frame, the upper falls plunge down from the tree-lined, mist shrouded cliff top behind the famous bridge over the lower falls. The lower falls thunder over their shorter drop and churn the plunge pool into white froth. A huge log juts out from the near bank of the plunge pool pointing just to the left of the lower falls. The cliffs around the lower falls are adorned with trees bearing the golds and oranges of autumn. At the bottom of the image, small trees growing up towards the view point trace the curve of the plunge pool below.
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Autumn at Multnomah Falls 1

There was wind and mist from the waterfall, and rain and wind from the sky, and occasional low clouds drifting through.

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Autumn at Multnomah Falls: vertical color photograph. In the foreground, tall trees clad in the yellow-orange hues of autumn. In the background,, the waterfall, engorged from recent rains, thunders down the sheer cliff and the under the famous bridge. Mist clouds the view of the top of the cliff.
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The Pre-Dawn Show Above the Awakening City

Glorious colors in the pre-dawn sky above Portland, Oregon. Shot from the Pittock Mansion west of downtown.

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Glorious colors in the pre-dawn sky above Portland, Oregon. Shot from the Pittock Mansion west of downtown. Vertical color photograph: The trees of the klower reach of the Tullatin Mountains are visible in the foreground at the bottom of the image. Next, the skyscrapers of downtown Portland, Oregon, rear up. The lights of cars ferrying people to their jobs are visible. Beyond, the folded mountains of the western Cascades march into the mist covered distance until Mount Hood's cone pierces the sky. And behind and above that distinctive mountain, an orange band along the horizon fades from red-orange to yellow-orange. Above that, the thin clouds glow red and slowly, slowly fade to purple at the very top of the image.
November 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Golden Waves Above

The rising sun illuminates great waves on a the sea of fog . Somewhere, below, lurk the skyscrapers of downtown Portland.

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he rising sun illuminates great waves on a the sea of fog . Somewhere, below, lurk the skyscrapers of downtown Portland.
November 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
And The Fog Swelled and Swallowed The City

Fog swallows Portland, Oregon at dawn. Shortly after this, the rising fog bank erased the city's skyscrapers entirely from view.

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Fog swallows Portland, Oregon at dawn. Shortly after this, the rising fog bank erased the city's skyscrapers entirely from view. Horizontal black-and-white photograph. Waves of fog highlighted by the rising sun blanket the image. In the middle left of the frame, a rectangular skyscraper pokes out above the fog. Just too the right, and a little lower, the more ornate top of an older skyscraper is disappearing into the fog.
November 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Welcome to the Garden

A foggy morning during peak autumn colors in the Portland Japanese Garden.

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Welcome to the Garden A foggy morning during peak autumn colors in the Portland Japanese Garden. Vertical color photo. The lower entrance to the Portland Japanes Gardens is a roofed break in a white wall. Surrounding the walkway and the structure at the lower elevations of the hill, are splashed of intense yellow, orang and read fall colors. Huge evergreens rear out of the hill and extend up into the fog and out of frame. If the far background, you can just make out the building at the top of the garden complex.
November 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Foggy Fall Morning in the Garden

A foggy morning during peak autumn colors in the Portland Japanese Garden. This tree is on the entrance trail to the main gardens.

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A foggy morning during peak autumn colors in the Portland Japanese Garden. This tree is on the entrance trail to the main gardens. Horizontal color photograph: Tall grasses in the foreground line the bottom edge of the frame. The gnarled tree with its black trench and blazing orange-yellow leaves rises from about1/5 of the way up in the frame center and spreads across the image as its twisted limbs branch off from the serpentine trunk. Fog fills the background, masking the trees further up the hill.
October 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Sunrise Over Portland

View from the Pittock Mansion this morning. Portland in the foreground, the Cascades and Mt Hood in the background. Look closely to spot the birds flying over the city.

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Sunrise Over Portland: horizontal color photograph. The sun has just crested the Cascades Mountains in the upper right of the scene, where it shining through, over, and under the thin streaks of clouds that semi-cover the sky all the way across the frame. About 1/3 of the way in from the left side, and above the mid-ling of the image, looms the cone of Mt. Hood. The sun's rays emanated out from the sun and down through the image, turning the morning mist orange, first illuminating the folds of the Cascades, and then the skyscrapers of downtown Portland, Oregon. In the bottom of the image, layers of silhouetted trees block some of the view of Portland as the Tualatin Mountains rise from the valley to the viewpoint at Pittock Mansion where this photo was taken.
October 30, 2025 at 8:32 PM
An early morning with the Koi at the Portland Japanese Garden.

(Not this morning.)

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Koi cluster near a small piece of sculpture of a lantern in the pond of Heavenly Falls at the Portland Japanes Garden. The greens of the background are broken by one tree breaking out in the yellows and oranges of autumn. You can trace the waterfall through the gaps in the trees in the background.
October 29, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The seasons roll on at the Portland Japanese Garden . You need to click through to see the whole image - it's a tall, semi-panorama format.

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A bush with vibrant fall colors of orange and yellow is the focus of the image, coming in front he bottom of the frame to just about the midpoint. There are mossy boulders below the leaves that lead the eye across the little creek and to the fern lined opposite bank. There, in the center, top portion of the image, is a Japanese arched lantern piece with a moss-covered roof that blends in with the shrubs and trees around it.
October 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Mossy Hills and Braids of White Water

The Little Zigzag River churning around boulders and under fallen trees in the Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon.

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Mossy Hills and Braids of White Water The Little Zigzag River churning around boulders and under fallen trees in the Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon. Horizontal color photograph: the narrow river enters from the left side of the frame and flows out th right. It wraps around a pair of moss covered boulders that resemble small hills, and slips under a pair of moss covered downed trees. You can track the water's path by the white rapids. The foliage of the bushes and trees on the far back is a vibrant green.
October 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The Old Bridge

The Little Zigzag River slides under an old bridge as it winds through verdant green woodlands in the Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon.

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Horizontal color photograph: The Little Zigzag River slides under an old bridge as it winds through verdant green woodlands in the Mount Hood National Forest in Oregon. The bridge, concrete and steel, half covered In moss, anchors the left side of the image. The river bursts out from beneath it into a winding cascade around one boulder, then over another and then down again and out the right side of the frame. Ferns cluster along the edge of water above the first boulder and tree clutter the air above the bridge and river. A large, mossy tree anchors the upper right edge of the frame.
October 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Dark-eyed Junco

Shot while hiking between Hole-in-the-Wall Falls and Starvation Creek State Park in the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon.

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Horizontal color photograph: a dark-eyed junco, a small sparrow with a black head, black eyes, brown back that transitions to black feathers at the tail and edge of the wings, and white underbelly feathers speckled with brown; perches on a branch in the forest along the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. The bird is in the upper part of the image, just to the viewer's left of image center. The junco is facing away from the camera, turned slightly to the right, and looking back over its should at the photographer. The branch it's perching on curves ever so gently downward as crosses the frame from image left to image right. Mossy tree roots are visible in the background.
October 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A Contemplation of Morning Light

Natural Garden Sitting Area, Portland Japanese Garden .

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A Contemplation of Morning Light Natural Garden Sitting Area, Portland Japanese Garden . Square, black and-white photograph. A shaft of light comes in from a slit under the roof at the top left and runs diagonally down through the image, broadening as it goes, exiting the right edge of the frame at the just below the mid-line of of the composition The beam highlights the texture of the back wall of the structure. At the top of the image, one can make out the wooden roof support beams in the shadows. There is also a window in the wall on the left. Light from that illuminates the wooden bench and floor.
October 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Autumn Red, Portland Japanese Garden

Fall colors are spreading through the Portland Japanese Garden . It hasn't reach peak yet, but the progress of the season is becoming more and more visible.

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Autumn Red, Portland Japanese Garden Vertical color photograph: a red, yellow and black winged seed pod just above and to the left of the image center, and the surrounding blazing red and yellow leaves, is the focal point of the image. It is surrounded in the foreground by more red leaves, though some still have a hint of green, and tips of tree branches. The background is a blur of more autumn red foliage and some green foliage that hasn't yet surrendered to the changing of the seasons. Fall colors are spreading through the Portland Japanese Garden . It hasn't reach peak yet, but the progress of the season is becoming more and more visible.
October 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Sunset at the End of the Creek

Shot on the Oregon Coast just north of Yaquina Head, where a rocky creek runs across the beach and directly into the Pacific Ocean.

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Sunset at the End of the Creek Shot on the Oregon Coast just north of Yaquina Head, where a rocky creek runs across the beach and directly into the Pacific Ocean. Vertical color photograph: the creek starts at the bottom of the frame, and runs to the ocean, curving gently to the viewer's left and then more sharply to the right before reaching the tide line. The water is clear. There are rocks, including a small boulder about a third of the way up front the image bottom and on the right, scattered in the creek bed, providing the dominant foreground interest. The rocks Peter out as the creek makes its leftward turn about 2/3s of the way up the frame. The final rightward sweep of the creek leads the eye to the sun setting in a blaze of orange over the Pacific Ocean, rays reaching out across the sea to touch the waves and the beach. The sun is reflected in the water at the tide line. The ocean waves are gentle. Above the sun are two thin lines of clouds parallel to the horizon. Above them are some wispy, horsetail clouds, as the sky transitions from orange to blue.
October 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Just Before Sunrise, Mount Hood

A cloudless October pre-sunrise scene with Mount Hood, from the Jonsrud Viewpoint in Sandy, OR.

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A cloudless October pre-sunrise scene with Mount Hood, from the Jonsrud Viewpoint in Sandy, OR. Horizontal color photograph. Layers of tree covered hills and mountains rise from the Sandy valley in the foreground. At the horizon line, about 1/3 the way up the frame, a freshly snow-covered Mount Hood rears above the surrounding mountains. Behind its conical form, the sky starts orange at the horizon, then transitions to yellow and then to white and finally blue. You can see a faint shadow in the sky to the left of the mountain peak: it's cast by the mountain itself, as the sun is still below the horizon. In the upper right corner, a line of geese are flying towards Mount Hood.
October 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Sun Rays Cutting Through Morning Fog, Sandy River, OR

Taken from Jonsrud Point in Sandy Oregon, which allows you to look across the Sandy River Valley to Mount Hood.

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Sun Rays Cutting Through Morning Fog, Sandy River, OR Vertical black-and-shite photograph: Perspective is looking down into the valley from a high point. Tall evergreens cut the sunlight into sharp rays that filter through the morning fog along the Sandy River. The tree are in the upper right of the composition, and the beams come diagonally down into the frame, extending to the bottom. Following the sun rays take your eyes down into brightly lit billowy clouds low over the forest and river. Along the bottom part of the image, the half lit Sandy River comes in the from the center of the frame, moving up and then curving to the viewer's left to exit the frame in shadow about 1/3 of the way up. The rest of the frame is forest, softened by the morning mist, even where the sun isn't highlighting it. Taken from Jonsrud Point in Sandy Oregon, which allows you to look across the Sandy River Valley to Mount Hood. The weather forecast hinted at the possibility of a stunning sunrise, but the promised bits of cloud did not appear anywhere near the right part of the sky. Fortunately, fog and mist along the river provided some interesting scenes.
October 20, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Snow on the Black Rock Staircase

Dee Wright Observatory, Oregon

Click through and you can see the flying snow.

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Snow on the Black Rock Staircase Dee Wright Observatory, Oregon Vertical black-and-white photograph: stairs carved out of black rock ascend a hill, curving right and then left as they head for the round building made from the surrounding ancient lava field. Snow is falling, visible as it streaks in front of the rock. Snow has started accumulating on the rocks and the more exposed upper stairs. The sky is light gray, with streaks from the falling snow.
October 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The Changes of Autumn

Soon, the Portland Japanese Garden should be ablaze with autumn colors. This is a little preview from the end of September.

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Horizontal color photo: Maple leafs changing color in the Portland Japanese Garden in Portland Oregon. The leaves are wet from a light rain that just ended. In the lover left corner of the frame, a large leaf that has completely changed to red anchors the composition. Moving up, diagonally through the frame, you com to another, smaller leaf, 80% of the transition from green to red, atop several other leaves that are just into the transformation, with red moving up from the tips of the leaves but transitioning to green about 1/3 of the way up.
October 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM