Travel Images Photo gallery, Pacific Northwest, Oregon and Washington

Photography © John Baker, Travel Images

The following images represent the typical range of subjects for this particular Travel Images photo tour or workshop. They were selected in the knowledge that every client is able to obtain similar images, but should a particular technique be new to you I will share everything I know so that you reach every one of your photographic goals.

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Multnomah Falls in the Colombia Gorge is a spectacular 620' double falls,
but for this shot I opted for a time exposure composing a portion of both sections

Mt. Jefferson shot from the south face of Mount Hood. Gorgeous clouds, eh?

Trillium Lake provides the 'frame' for Mount Hood. This was a long tripod exposure shot at an aperture of f.22, hence the 'soft' barely discernable water.

A Crater Lake, Oregon pair. It's tranquil today, but like Mount St. Helens, the landscape was shaped by some sort of catastrophic event that took place eons ago.

Bunchberry, above, is found in abundance in Pacific Northwest forests, and right, gorgeous mossy rocks in the Clearwater Falls near Crater Lake. If you like those 'soft water' effects ya' gotta use a tripod and a shutter speed of a 1/15th of a second or slower.

The Heceta head light on the Oregon coast.

An Ochre Sea Star Starfish on the Oregon coast. Blending in at bottom left are several more!

Somewhat harsh lighting, i.e. overly contrasty, for these wet stones above, while for the shot below a overcast light and a long exposure is ideal.

Cape Kiwanda at right will always be a coastal classic.

Here is a collection of mages from Cannon Beach, Oregon. Noted for it's sea stacks, this shot is from Ecola State Park.

Above is a moody Haystack Rock and Needles composition, while below the Needles look magnificent while silhouetted against the Pacific sunset.

Above and below, I often wonder if the gulls on those rocks say to themselves, "Whoa!, look at that sunset"?

Above, one last wide view of the Cannon beach 'sentinels', and below a shot in 'available darkness.' This a one minute exposure in which, by using a tripod, the rocks remain sharp, but the water turns to a fine mist.

Sol Duc Falls above sits in an old growth forest in Olympic National Park. Consequently there are some sublime 'fine art nature studies' to be found while going to and from the falls on foot such as the pair below.

Going to and from Sol duc Falls we encounter old growth forests. In my opinion overcast light is preferable in forests to the contrast provided by direct sunlight such as at right. That is, unless you're doing close-ups, for example, the two images above. As it it happens it was overcast for those shots anyway..

An Olympic Marmot in Olympic National Park. For a few weeks of the year they like to catch some morning sun and see what is going on around their world.

A young Mule Deer, also in Olympic National Park above and at right, Indian Paintbrush up close.

A nicely side-lit Mule Deer with an Olympic Mountain backdrop.

The Seattle skyline well after sunset. A shot that's well worth the wait.
This was an overcast evening, so it does get better than this.

The Seattle to Mt. Rainier corridor often provides images such as this one above, while the shot at right is typical of what can be found on any of my trips.

On every Pacific Northwest trip I feel that it is of great photographic benefit to take clients to Northwest Trek because, let's face it, one doesn't have time every day to pursue shots such as these. Above is a Beaver, right is a Wolf, and below are Otter and Lynx. Other animals photographed easily on each visit are Owl, Eagle, Raccoon, Bear, Coyote and more.

Wolf: Strict copyright John T. Baker Photographer LLC

The first of a Mt. Rainier selection, with the shots at left and below being late light images.

Left, 180' Narada Falls, and above, a Mount Rainier view from Reflection Lake. We shoot here at both dawn and sunset.

Green harmony in the form of a Hellebore shrub on Mt. Rainier.

Lastly, a sunset on the mountain looking west to close the day.

Above right, Mt. St. Helens as it looked in 2007. The dome visible in the top middle of the image is increasing in size all the time.
The foreground of that image plus the shots above left, and left attest to the power of the blast at that historic moment back in 1980.

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