Category: Destinations

places to visit and locations for photography

San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Posted on by Greg Vaughn
[caption id="attachment_274" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="Street scene in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico."][/caption] After a few days break, I'm back to processing photos from my recent visit to Mexico. Part of that trip was a couple of days spent in San...Read More

Happy Hallowe'en!

Posted on by Greg Vaughn
[caption id="attachment_267" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="Pumpkins at Daum's Produce Stand, Willamette Valley, Oregon."][/caption] Halloween means Jack-O-Lanterns, and the pumpkin patches at farms all over the Pacific Northwest have been harvested for pumpkin sales and displays in stores and at produce stands....Read More

Guanajuato, Mexico

Posted on by Greg Vaughn
[caption id="attachment_258" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="Guanajuato, Mexico historic district at sunset."][/caption] Home again after ten wonderful days in Mexico, and now I have hundreds of photos to edit, process, caption, keyword and upload. Visiting the city of Guanajuato in central Mexico...Read More

Mariachi

Posted on by Greg Vaughn
[caption id="attachment_253" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="Mariachi serenading a couple in a restaurant."][/caption] Mariachi music is one of the great traditions of Mexico, and Marachi bands are one of the instantly recognizable images of this wonderful country. The musicians play a variety...Read More

Guadalajara, Mexico

Posted on by Greg Vaughn
[caption id="attachment_249" align="aligncenter" width="333" caption="A charro or cowboy in Guadalajara, Mexico."][/caption] On a visit to Guadalajara, Mexico, our SATW group took in a charreada, which is sort of a Mexican rodeo. The charros and charras (cowboys and cowgirls) perform in...Read More

Autumn is upon us.

Posted on by Greg Vaughn
[caption id="attachment_243" align="aligncenter" width="333" caption="Mount Baker from Yellow Aster Butte Trail."][/caption] Only a few weeks ago photographers in the Pacific Northwest were still shooting wildflowers in the alpine areas of the Cascade Mountains. With the Autumn Equinox just behind us,...Read More

Mount Rainier Wildflowers

Posted on by Greg Vaughn
[caption id="attachment_235" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="Wildflowers and Tatoosh Range, from the Paradise area of Mount Rainier National Park."][/caption] By several accounts, this year has been among the best in recent times for the wildflowers at Mount Rainier National Park. After hearing...Read More

Mount Rainier and Reflection Lake

Posted on by Greg Vaughn
[caption id="attachment_231" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="Mt. Rainier with lenticular cloud, from Reflection Lake."][/caption] They say that when a lenticular cloud appears on Mount Rainier rain will be arriving within 24 hours, and that's exactly what happened last week. The first morning...Read More

Mount Adams and Bird Creek Meadows

Posted on by Greg Vaughn
[caption id="attachment_225" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="Mount Adams and wildflower meadow."][/caption] I'm back up in Washington state this week, photographing the summer wildflower bloom in subalpine meadows. First destination was Bird Creek Meadows on the southeast slope of Mount Adams. With all...Read More

Blueberry time

Posted on by Greg Vaughn
[caption id="attachment_222" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="Yellow flower spider on blueberries; Willamette Valley, Oregon"][/caption] Summertime in Oregon's Willamette Valley and the berries are ripe! We've got a wealth of them here - blueberries, strawberries, boysenberries, raspberries and marionberries. The ones from the...Read More