Category: Nature Photography

Mount Rainier and reflection in Upper Tipsoo Lake at sunrise;

Mount Rainier Timed-Entry Permits

Posted on May 11, 2024May 12, 2024 by Greg Vaughn

Are you planning to visit Mount Rainier National Park this summer? As it has done with several other popular parks recently, the National Park Service recently implemented a reservation system for Rainier that requires a timed-entry permit. Here’s what you...Read More

10 Tips for Photographing Fall Color

Posted on October 12, 2023April 17, 2024 by Greg Vaughn

If you are like most nature and landscape photographers I know, long about late summer you're really looking forward to the changing of the seasons and hitting the trail for some fall color photography. Here are some tips for creating...Read More

Top 10 for 2022

Posted on January 8, 2023January 9, 2023 by Greg Vaughn

It's a new year and I'm making my way home from Mexico with a drive up the Baja Peninsula. Not rushing this trip and taking time to review the past year. I'm way behind on processing the photographs I made...Read More

Summer Lake Wildlife Area

Posted on April 21, 2022April 21, 2022 by Greg Vaughn

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gregvaughn/51993545808/in/dateposted-public/ Summer Lake Wildlife Area is one of the best places in Oregon to view and photograph migrating waterfowl, shorebirds, and other waterbirds. Similar to a national wildlife refuge but managed by the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife (ODFW),...Read More

Latourell Falls in the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon.

Columbia River Gorge Waterfalls Update

Posted on April 14, 2021April 14, 2021 by Greg Vaughn

Latourell Falls in Guy Talbot State Park, Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Oregon. The Eagle Creek Fire in September 2017 devastated much of the forest surrounding many of the waterfalls on the Oregon side of the Columbia River Gorge...Read More

Dusk over the striated pinnacles and gullies of Badlands National Park in South Dakota, USA.

My Top Ten Photos of 2020

Posted on December 21, 2020January 19, 2021 by Greg Vaughn

Bandon Beach sunset, southern Oregon coast. Wrapping up 2020, I think we can all agree that it has been a challenging year. With all of my photo workshops canceled and other plans for travel very much curtailed, I ended up...Read More

Mount Hood and the Hood River Valley with fruit tree orchards in fall color.

Top Spots for Fall Color in Oregon

Posted on September 17, 2020April 17, 2024 by Greg Vaughn

Mount Hood and Hood River Valley in Autumn. Autumn has long been the favorite season of many nature and landscape photographers. Changing weather and the brilliant colors of leaves provide great opportunities for getting out and capturing the beauty and...Read More

photograph of Bead Lily flowers and leaves

Wildflower Walk: Bead Lily

Posted on July 31, 2020September 17, 2020 by Greg Vaughn

Bead Lily, Willamette National Forest, Cascade Mountains, Oregon. On a wildflower hike in Oregon's Cascade Mountains last week I came across this lovely clump of Bead Lily next to the trail and under the canopy of a diverse old-growth forest....Read More

Windblown Poppies

Posted on April 4, 2020April 4, 2020 by Greg Vaughn

Windblown poppies; Carrizo Plain National Monument, California. Several months ago I put together a very detailed plan for a month-long road trip to Baja California, Mexico that included stops on the return to some of southern California's best wildflower locations....Read More

Close-up photograph of Osoberry blossoming at Mount Pisgah Arboretum

First Signs of Spring

Posted on February 2, 2020February 13, 2020 by Greg Vaughn

[caption id="attachment_15293" align="aligncenter" width="900"] Indian Plum or Osoberry (Oemleria cerasiformis); Mount Pisgah Arboretum, Willamette Valley, Oregon.[/caption] Looking at my Lightroom catalog, I realized that I hadn't done any serious photography for the whole month of January. That, and a day...Read More