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During our first visit to the beautiful state of Oregon, almost as soon as we reached the outskirts of Portland, we realized that Mt Hood is going to dominate a lot of our shots. While planning, we actually hadn’t thought much about the mountain and most of our hikes and days were planned around Columbia River Gorge and its stunning waterfalls. We only had trillium lake as a view point for Mt Hood
So we made some impromptu changes to our itinerary and searched for some viewpoints to get some good shots of the most picturesque mountain that I have ever seen. Two notable spots came up, one was Lost lake campground and the other was some roads in Hood River Valley that led to Panorama Point. This shot was taken at Panorama Point park which has an amazing panorama view of the Mt Hood and the rolling hills at its base. This shot was taken just as the first rays of light warmed up the south west slopes of Mt Hood. This was before more light began to spread in from behind me and started to light the whole valley in golden light. I think I like the way this shot shows the effect of first light of golden hour contrasts with the cooler blue hour tones.