oh my gush (ponytail falls, columbia river gorge) by maxvuong

Posted a few days ago on my facebook First time in the PNW and I had a blast. I didn't come away with much but I got to spend time with some awesome people. Thanks for letting me hang with ya'll. And a huge thanks for the hospitality and for letting me crash at your pad. Oh, and it wasn't poison oak. Just a water rash from swimming in my waders all day :) via 500px http://ift.tt/1iQgnWU

Playing with light by ThomasDuffy

Photograph of Multnomah Falls, enhanced with beams of light! via 500px http://ift.tt/1ifGSVs

Broken Arms by RyanDyar

This was a tough shot to pull off... both with composition and processing. It's a fairly extensive perspective blend that I had to utilize to get all the elements shaped up properly with the frame while overcoming the limitations of the natural elements and my own lens. It was all focus blended, blended for dynamic range, hand-stitched from different focal lengths, and then warped to get everything looking ship-shape again. After all of that it was pretty straight forward processing for me. Some texture work, some luminosity masking to get the tones proper across the board, and a bunch of dodging/burning (some of which is covered in my latest video tutorial). I'm currently working on my next video tutorial which will cover many of these perspective blend, warping, stitching techniques I use. It's pretty labor intensive work to put these together, but isn't necessarily *hard* to pull off. As always, check out my site for more images, info about processing instruction, in-field workshops, prints, and yadd yadda yadda that everyone else in this community does. http://ift.tt/HjSx9r via 500px http://ift.tt/1p72oAl

Spring Greens by SarahMarino

Ron Coscorrosa and I are thrilled to announce our third e-book, Beyond the Grand Landscape: A Guide to Photographing Nature’s Smaller Scenes. This book was a massive project (174 pages, over 250 photographs), but we wanted to do the topic justice. We both enjoy photographing these smaller scenes (intimates, abstracts, and portraits of flowers and plants) quite a bit, and find the process more fulfilling and more personal than trying to capture epic light at well-known destinations on the landscape photography circuit. If you would like to learn more, you can visit our ebook website, Nature Photo Guides. You can save 10% off the introductory price of $15.95 with the coupon code BGL10. Thanks! via 500px http://ift.tt/1orvL2O

Gorton creek by VijayChebium

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Serendipity by tulatop

Prints for sale at http://ift.tt/1eSTqTx "Better on black!" Cedar Creek · Columbia River Gorge · North Bonneville · Washington · USA A little-traveled path nestled between Aldrich Butte and Cedar Mountain winds its way through a Douglas-fir forest before crossing over Cedar Creek and snaking through a stand of monstrous black cottonwoods. In the thick of spring, this trail is as lush and verdant as it gets, but on this late-March day the buds and sprouts were just barely rousing from their winter torpor--though a few modest flourishes of lavender oaks toothwort and yellow deep woods violet brought some refreshing color to the journey. Sparse foliage and harsh sunlight made photographing the creek's namesake falls an unworthy pursuit, so I spent some time downstream studying the picturesque outflow and waited for some high clouds to diffuse the sunlight before pulling the trigger on this charming little stretch of meander. via 500px http://ift.tt/1jkbg4q

Real Creeks Have Curves by alexnoriega

Light filters through the canopy of Gorton Creek during a break in the rain, in Oregon's Columbia River Gorge. Met up with some dope dawgs (Bollino, Mody, Rossbach, and Van Breugel) and had a chill Sunday of huevos rancheros, naps, and green shooting. Sorry for the re-upload here, my contacts were messed up last night and I was squinting through calcium deposits (maybe I should stop wearing my weeklies for 3 months) - didn't see some clarity/sharpening/diffusion issues with the original. FYI, I teach my processing workflow over Skype! If you like the way my images look and would like to learn my techniques, please visit my website for more information: http://ift.tt/1k70o6M via 500px http://ift.tt/1kfGkQX

Cavedwellers - Aaron Reed Photography by AaronReedPhotography

Artist: Aaron Reed Limited Edition Prints and Licensing information can always be found on my website at http://ift.tt/12VidRu A dreamy little scene captured from inside the cave at Ponytail Falls in the Columbia River Gorge last year. I had tried to capture a similar image before but never really cared for one without the fog and hints of fall color. via 500px http://ift.tt/1lOK6BR