Favorite Places: Desert Wildflowers on Steens Mountain, Oregon

Are you looking for a spectacular place to photograph this summer? Steens Mountain is that special place and is one of Oregon’s most treasured landmarks. The Steens Mountain Management and Protection area is an incredible 500,000 acre located in the desert of Southeast Oregon.

Some think there is not much out there, but of course it depends on what you are looking for. Thousands of square miles of windswept desert, a few scattered ranches, plenty of wildlife, and this incredible mountain jutting up from the desert floor. Sounds perfect and it is.

Nearly 10,000 vertical feet and 30 miles long, Steens Mountain is an enormous fault block, the largest in North America, that rose up millions of years ago to cut a bold line between the greener western slope and the desolate desert on the east side.

But what may interest you is that Steens Mountain is a photographer’s paradise, perfect for nature photography. Containing 170,000 acres of protected wilderness with glacial cut valleys, aspen filled gorges, and wildflower laden meadows. … Continue Reading

Here’s Our Favorite Location for Spring Flowers. Where’s Yours?

Now that spring is here it’s time for flower photography in many areas. One of my favorite places to get an amazing display of stunning flowers is Schreiners Gardens in Salem, Oregon.

Schreiners is one of the worlds leading growers of Iris’s, growing over 200 acres of iris and shipping product all over the world.

However, it’s their 10 acre demo garden that attracts photographers from all over seeking to capture the vast display of all kinds of Iris, Lupine, and many others species.

If you wish to visit their demo garden opens May 10th.

Wait, there’s more, read on….. … Continue Reading

Are You Into Extreme Points of View? Check These Videos Out.

Photographers need to always be on the lookout for new and interesting locations and angles for photography. Here are some extreme locations in case you are looking for new terrain to photograph.

It is called the: 7 of the craziest, most dangerous, most dizzying hikes in the world.

Not for the faint of heart.

Favorite Places: The Slickrock Country of Page, Arizona

One of most photographers and my favorite places is the canyon country around Page, Arizona. I was recently photographing there with my dear friend Brenda Tharp after teaching a workshop. Based in Page, the workshop visited some of the most extraordinary geological sites in this border area next to Utah. … Continue Reading