Latest posts tagged with #OregonStateParks on Bluesky
North Falls, Silver Falls State Park. A powerful reminder of Oregon's natural beauty.
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Foxglove, Ecola State Park, Oregon Coast. Vertical Color photo: Reddish-Purple foxglove flowers against a wash of green. The flowers mark up the stalk from the lower left corner of the image to the upper right corner.
Pretty, Deadly
Foxglove, Ecola State Park, Oregon Coast.
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Ochre Sea Stars and Aggregating Anemones, and one bold Periwinkle, Ecola State Park Tide Pool, Oregon Coast. Vertical Color Photograph: The dominant feature is the large purple Ochre Sea Star in the upper half of the center of the frame. Right below it, nestled between two of its widespread legs, is a large aggregating anemone. Snugged up against the lower right side of the anemone is and orange ochre sea star, and a bold periwinkle. Just below that in the center bottom of the frame is another purple ochre sea star. Other aggregating anemones are scattered around the frame.
Stars of the Sea Shore
Ochre Sea Stars and Aggregating Anemones, and one bold Periwinkle, Ecola State Park Tide Pool, Oregon Coast.
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Moss Covered Trees, Silver Falls State Park, Oregon. Vertical Color Photograph: int he foreground, moss-covered tree limbs and trunks, with a particularly curved, multi-branched limb coming in from the upper left side. Brown leaves stuck on the moss dot the branches, indicating it is late fall.
Moss Covered Trees, Silver Falls State Park, Oregon
View from the trail to North Falls.
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The Trail Goes Ever Onward, and Where it Leads I Cannot See A trail at Ecola Beach State Park on the Oregon Coast disappears into the morning fog. The worn path, which is barely one person wide, enters the frame just to the viewer's left to of mid-bottom. It describes a gentle S-curve as it winds between grasses, flowers, and tall shrubs to either side, heading into the fog-shrouded distance where tall evergreens are barely visible through the mist.
The Trail Goes Ever Onward, and Where it Leads I Cannot See
A trail at Ecola Beach State Park on the Oregon Coast disappears into the morning fog.
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Water plunges and braids its way down the face of Upper North Falls in Silver Falls State Park in Oregon. Vertical, black-and-white photograph.
Detail, Upper North Falls, Silver Falls State Park, Oregon
Classic, black-and-white treatment. Shot with a 300mm focal length.
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North Falls, Silver Falls State Park, Oregon. The North Fork of Silver Creek pouring over North Falls as viewed from under the overhanging cliff. Horizontal color photo: from the top right corner to the upper left, the basalt overhang blocks the sky, creating a semi-cavern. An arc of of green and yellow and brown created by moss and plants surrendering to the changing seasons describes another semicircle along the cliff below. The creek thunders in from the upper left, plunging dramatically to the rocks below and then running past a quintet of tall evergreens on the right side of the image.
North Falls, Silver Falls State Park in Oregon.
The North Fork of Silver Creek pouring over North Falls as viewed from under the overhanging cliff.
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Upper North Falls, Silver Falls State Park, Oregon. Vertical color photograph: white water pours over the edge of a short cliff, braids its way down over striations int he cliff face, and down into the shallow creek below. Trees line the creek above the drop. Various low ridges of rock are visible above the water level of the creek in the foreground.
Upper North Falls, Silver Falls State Park, Oregon
If you can score a parking spot, this is a short, mostly level, walk with a big payoff.
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Buoyed by recent rains, The North Fork of Silver Creek roars over North Falls in Silver Falls State Park. Vertical Color Photograph. At the top of the image, basalt cliffs topped with moss-covered evergreens converge to a point about 1/5 of the way down from the top and in from the image left. From there, a roaring plume of white water plunges 136 down to crash onto the boulders and then wind its way down towards the next waterfall. Vines and shrubs with some clinging remnants of autumn colors are in the foreground and on the rocks of the far shore.
North Falls, Silver Falls State Park in Oregon.
Buoyed by recent rains, The North Fork of Silver Creek roars over North Falls in Silver Falls State Park.
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Horizontal color photograph: A brown-white mushroom erupts from the dark soil of the forest floor along the Upper North Falls Trail in Silver Falls State Park in Oregon. It is just to the viewer's left of center. A tree root sprinkled with green moss runs diagonally from the lower left corner of the frame to the upper right, going behind the mushroom. fallen, decaying leaves of yellow brown and black cover the ground behind the root. To the viewer's right of the mushrooms are a few, fresher fallen leaves, and a mix of moss thin blades of grass. Everything is wet and glistening with the morning dew.
Mushroom, Upper North Falls Trail, Silver Falls State Park
The rains and dark of the late autumn have arrived here in Oregon, and the fungi are here for it.
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Bridal Veil Creek roaring as it races down to meet the Columbia River in Oregon. Horizontal color photograph: white water surges through the grey-black boulders of the creek bed, lacing and threading around the larger stones, overwhelming the smaller ones, and rushing over rocky edges. Some of the stones on the right edge of the Fram are moss-covered, and brown, fallen leaves dot the stones throughout.
Race to the River
Recent rains have Bridal Veil Creek roaring as it races down to meet the Columbia River.
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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.
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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The lower part of Starvation Creek Falls in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. Vertical color photograph. The creek enter the frame near the upper right corner of the image, appearing from behind a small rock formation. It then curves gracefully to the right and then back to the left as it charges out of the lower left corner of the frame on its way to the Columbia River below. A hug fallen tree enters the frame from the upper left corner of the image and extends diagonally down from the moss-covered cliff almost 5/6 of the way cross the image to where it's grounded in the creek. Just under it along the left side of the frame, a branch of the creek vaults another fallen log and then joins another split of rushing water to cascade over a small boulder and out of the left side of the image just above the midline. The rocks and boulders of the creek are black and grey and reddish brown, and some have bits of moss.
The Winding Way to the River
The lower part of Starvation Creek Falls in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon.
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Detail from the lower part of Starvation Creek Falls in the eponymous State Park in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. Vertical black-and-white photograph. Water streams in from the upper left and center of the image, split by the black rock that underlies the creek and cliff. From the upper right, a fallen branch runs from the stream bank diagonally to the mid-section of the top third of the frame, ending about where the two streams of water partially converge. Another fallen branch runs from just to camera right the end of the first branch, resting on a boulder partially overrun by the water. This branch gently curve to frame left and then back right before exiting the image in the lower right quadrant. The water continues falling through the image, being cut into new streams or fans of spray by boulders.
Detail from the lower part of Starvation Creek Falls in the eponymous State Park in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon.
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An American Dipper finds a pocket of relative tranquility and a foothold in the middle of the tumult of the lower section of Hole-in-the-Wall Falls in the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon. Horizontal color photograph: The frame is bound on the left and right by flying water, frozen in mid-air, as it plunges down the shed, black rock face of the waterfall. Slightly to the left and just above the middle of the frame, an American Dipper - a small gray bird with pink leges - has found a perch along a tiny rock ledge that runs diagonally upward from the lower left to the upper right of the frame.The bird is in profile, left to right in the frame. Out of focus water droplets appear randomly in the foreground, with several obscuring parts of the Dipper's body.
An American Dipper finds a pocket of relative tranquility and a foothold in the middle of the tumult of the lower section of Hole-in-the-Wall Falls in the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon.
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Mountains, Clouds and Shadows Morning view from the parking lot of Starvation Creek State Park in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. Horizontal color photograph: To the left and right of the frame in the foreground, almost silhouetted trees frame the scene beyond. Further in, a curved, shadowed, mountain side arcs in the from the left and continues down the image and finally exits along the bottom edge. In the distance, the focal point point of the composition, a mountain peak studded with evergreens interspersed with areas of bare rock, with it very top shadowed and partially obscured by low lying clouds. Beyond, blue skies and high bright clouds are visible. A bird soars just to camera right of the mountain.
Mountains, Clouds and Shadows
Morning view from the parking lot of Starvation Creek State Park in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon.
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An American Dipper pauses to strike a pose atop the lower section of Hole-in-the-Wall Falls in the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon. Horizontal color photograph: the Dipper stands atop the edge of the waterfall, in a small break in the tumbling water pouring down the mountainside. The bird is roughly a third of the way in from frame right, and just above there frame. midline. It's oriented right to left and is looking back over its shoulder towards the camera. Cliff of brown stone with green plants clinging to the almost vertical faces are visible behind him. The Dipper is a small, gray bird,so even shooting at 400mm it was challenge to get tight enough to make a good photo.
I am King of the Waterfall
An American Dipper pauses to strike a pose atop the lower section of Hole-in-the-Wall Falls in the Columbia River Gorge of Oregon.
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A lone Ochre Sea Star waits amidst a colony of large mussels for the tide to return the water to Indian Beach at Ecola State Park on the Oregon Coast. Vertical color photograph: A colony of large blue-black mussels fills the entire frame. About 1/3rd of the way down from the top of the frame, just to camera right of the image center, a bright orange ochre sea star is visible where's partially tucked in amongst the mussels.
One is the Loneliest Number
A lone Ochre Sea Star waits amidst a colony of large mussels for the tide to return the water to Indian Beach at Ecola State Park on the Oregon Coast.
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Vertical black-and-white photograph: A thin strand of bull kelp (I think) undulates across Indian Beach in Ecola State Park on the Oregon Coast on a foggy morning, seemingly pointing towards the sea stacks and cliffs at the edge of the cove.A steam of clouds in the sky above, coming down from the upper left to the upper center, is reflected in the thin layer of water on the beach.
The S-Curve Uniting Sky, Sea, and Sand
A thin strand of bull kelp (I think) undulates across Indian Beach in Ecola State Park on the Oregon Coast on a foggy morning.
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Ochre Sea Star, tide pool, Ecola State Park on the Oregon Coast. Vertical color photograph: In the center/ top middle right of the image, an orange ochre sea star appears to lounging against the rocks. It's top two arms are draped over the rocks to either side and the bottom third of the sea star is under water - it looks as it it's sitting in a hot tub. Interrupting the sea star's reflection below it, you can see a large, green aggregating anemone under the water. The crevice the sea star is chilling in starts at the upper right of the image, just above the rock the sea start is resting against, and comes down in the image at a diagonal, leading the eye back to the subject. Barnacles dot the surrounding black rocks, and green and brown help dot the crevice.
Ochre Sea Star Takes A Break
"It's been a helluva a day and I am going to just sit here and have myself a damn break."
Ochre Sea Star, tide pool, Ecola State Park on the Oregon Coast.
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An osprey flies home with breakfast, Ecola State Park on the Oregon Coast. Horizontally color photograph: osprey flying against a blue sky with a fish freshly plucked from the Pacific Ocean in its talons. The just past sunrise morning light is coming from image left. The osprey's wings are not at full stretch, but slightly arced. The osprey is moving right-to-left across the frame.
Ocean Fresh Breakfast Take-Out
An osprey flies home with breakfast, Ecola State Park on the Oregon Coast.
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Seaweed and Sand Dollar Found one summer morning on the beach in Ecola State Park on the Oregon Coast. Horizontal color photograph: A long, thing green sea plant, tube like in shape, enters the frame from the upper left corner, and then curves across the dark brown and partially water covered sand to exit the right side of the frame about one third of the way down from the top. Just before the halfway point, it cross the the very top part of a sand dollar, just at the top of the poinsettia like pattern.
Seaweed and Sand Dollar
Found one summer morning on the beach in Ecola State Park on the Oregon Coast.
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Shore Acres Oregon State Park; formerly owned by wealthy shipping and timber magnate Asa Mead Simpson. They still maintain a formal rose garden. These are from 7/24/25
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Old Stone Wall This stone wall marks the path to the falls in Shepperd's Dell State Natural Area in Oregon. Vertical color photograph: Starting at the lower left corner, a moss-covered, gray, stone wall with arches in the bottom comes into the image, gently curving left and then right as it describes the edge of a path down a steep cliff. To the left of the wall, shrubs, ferns and other forest undergrowth cling to the steep slope above. To the right of the wall, the slope drops again, dramatically. In addition to the undergrowth, in the middle right of the frame. a mossy tree rises at a slight rightward angle, somehow clinging to the almost vertical slope face.
Old Stone Wall
This stone wall marks the path to the falls in Shepperd's Dell State Natural Area in Oregon.
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Lower Shepperd's Dell Falls, Oregon The lower plunge of Shepperd's Dell Falls, as seen from the Old Highway 30 bridge, diving down the mountain through a sea of greens. Vertical color photograph: the falls, rendered silky white by the longish shutter speed, enter the frame a little in from the top right corner, partially obscured by creekside trees. At about a quarter of the way down the frame, it starts it's 3rd drop, and the steepness of cliff it plunges down changes the vegetation and trees no longer occlude the view of the water as it races down the last 50 feet to the small plunge basin at the bottom. But even during this dramatic descent, the banks are line with ferns and other plants. At the base of the frame, the leaves of a tree high up the opposing cliff, create an arc that cradles the plunge basin.
Lower Shepperd's Dell Falls, Oregon
The lower plunge of Shepperd's Dell Falls. You may need to click through for the whole image.
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Detail, Shepperd's Dell Falls, Oregon Vertical Black-and-white photograph: water plummets in small stage after stag over the craggy rock face of part of Shepperd's Dell Falls in the Columbia River Gorge in Oregon. The stream is broken up into smaller streams, which further break up and recombine as they race down the steep set of outcroppings. The water is rendered smooth white by the long shutter speed, the rock are shiny black.
Detail, Shepperd's Dell Falls, Oregon
A small stop on the Columbia River Gorge Waterfall tour on old Highway 30.
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Sun Rays Sneak Through Sunrise, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon. Taken from the Portland Women's Forum State Scenic Overlook this morning. The color lasted only a few minutes, and then was gone. Horizontal Image, color photograph: the viewpoint is high above the Columbia River Gorge, looking east towards the rising sun. Cutting diagonally through the frame, frame from the center right and flowing down and out at almost the bottom left hand corner of the frame is the silver Columbia River. In the foreground, coming in the from the right of the frame is a massive cliff face topped with tree that extends about midway into the frame. Perched almost at its end is the Vista House, a light gray stone structure topped by a cupola that overlooks the Gorge from a lower, yet still elevated, viewpoint. Above the tallest trees on this cliff, in the lower part of the upper right quadrant of the image, the sun punches orange rays of light through a weak spot in the swirling clouds that come down to the tops of the higher peaks. The twin sunbeams reach across the Gorge and slowly fade out in the mists over the mountains on the far side of the river. A row of dramatic black-and-white clouds separate the beams from the only other patch of warm color near the top center of the frame, which is bounded by another area of dark clouds.
Sun Rays Sneak Through
Sunrise, Columbia River Gorge, Oregon. Taken from the Portland Women's Forum State Scenic Overlook this morning. The color lasted only a few minutes, and then was gone.
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Umbo greeting card with waterfall at Silver Falls State Park, Oregon.
Chumbo gets chummy with #waterfalls at Silver Falls State Park and mushes you were there 🤗 #oregonstateparks #nature #greetingscards #madebyhumans
Abstract sculptures in sand by the Pacific Ocean and sea creatures, Hug Point State Recreation Area, Oregon. Horizontal black-and-white photograph. In the upper right corner, serpentine features in the sand left by a sea creature lead the eye to the otherworldly hills and canyons cut into the beach by the outgoing tide.
TIde Sculptures
Abstract sculptures in sand by the Pacific Ocean and sea creatures, Hug Point State Recreation Area, Oregon.
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One of the Points in Hug Point State Recreation Area in Oregon. Horizontal image: in the foreground is the sandy beach with a hug log pointing generally at the cave at the base of the cliff behind. The beach and most of the cliff are lit by the blue sky above as the rising sun has not cleared the Coastal Range to camera right. The point rises dramatically out of the beach. About two thirds of the way up, the rock is covered by shrubs and trees finally able to grow above the high tide line. In the center of the base of the cliff is a cave: just to cave left, a section of the cliff is bathed in the orange light of the rising sun sneaking through the mountains and trees to the east. Just to the left of the edge of the point you can see the beach continue on. There's a pair of beach goers there, tiny compared to the point. Behind them, a cloud/fog bank clings to the ocean on the horizon. Atop the cliff, a row of trees, top thirds illuminated by the rising sun, break up the blue sky.
Dare Ye Enter the Sea Cave
One of the Points in Hug Point State Recreation Area in Oregon. That cave is inviting at a minus tide, but it's underwater at high tide.
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