Wanders and Wonders

Go With The Flow

Posted on December 3, 2025December 3, 2025 by Greg Vaughn

Looking out my office window at dawn this morning, I saw dense fog. Excited, I grabbed my photo backpack, jumped into Rusty, and drove over to Mount Pisgah Arboretum. Forest and fog is one of my favorite photo subjects. I...Read More

Fall Color in the Oregon Cascades

Posted on October 26, 2025October 26, 2025 by Greg Vaughn

It's looking like 2025 is a banner year for photographing fall color in Oregon's Cascade Mountains. I spent a delightful day cruising Aufderheide Memorial Drive, aka West Cascades Scenic Byway, aka Forest Road 19, and found conditions better than I...Read More

Photographing Wildlife Close To Home

Posted on July 25, 2025 by Greg Vaughn

Sometimes I travel many miles in search of wildlife. And sometimes I remember there are critters to photograph not far from home. Like this Nutria swimming at Delta Ponds in Eugene. Nutria, or coypu, are originally from South America. They...Read More

Fort Rock, Oregon

Posted on July 10, 2025July 12, 2025 by Greg Vaughn

Rising up out of surrounding sagebrush desert, Fort Rock is a towering jagged rock formation, technically a tuff ring, set in an ancient seabed. It is also perhaps the most famous anthropological site in Oregon, as a pair of 9,000–year...Read More

Podcast Interview

Posted on May 8, 2025October 26, 2025 by Greg Vaughn

My friend and fellow Muench Workshops pro Matt Payne has interviewed a great many photographers who I consider to be among the very best in the nature and landscape genre. So it was a great honor when Matt asked me...Read More

Mount Rainier Timed-Entry Permits

Posted on May 11, 2024July 10, 2025 by Greg Vaughn

Summer 2025 Update: This year the timed entry permits are only required for the Sunrise Corridor on the northeast side of the park. Permits are no longer required at the west side Nisqually Entrance or the southeast entrance at Ohanacopesh....Read More

Go With The Flow

Fall Color in the Oregon Cascades

Photographing Wildlife Close To Home

Fort Rock, Oregon

Podcast Interview

Mount Rainier Timed-Entry Permits

Using AI for Photography

Cat and Kittens

Isle of Lewis and Harris

Hermosillo, Mexico