Mount Hood

Jeff and I barely made it for this amazing sunrise over Trillium Lake and Mt Hood. We left his place in Wilsonville at 5am. This color seemed to...

Thinking back on this amazing sunrise over Trillium Lake last November. There were dozens of other photographers all lined up along the lakeshore...

Sunset, Trillium Lake, Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon.

Yesterday's sunset was decent. I guess the northern lights were decent after sunset, but...

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Another one from Trillium Lake last night.

Speaking of yellow trees with white bark, I've got aspen groves in Colorado on my bin list. Maybe next...

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Trillium Lake is one of the best reflection pools for photographing Mt Hood. In fact, I think it’s one of those must-haves for any west coast photographer. We visited this amazing location on a beautiful summer morning hoping to get a stunning sunrise shot. We had to leave our hotel at 4 am to get to the lake in time, thankfully you get stunning views a few feet away from the parking lot. So here I was on a very cold summer morning in front of the lake just like I planned, waiting for the sun to rise when I learned that it was the wrong season. In summer the sun rises and sets in northeast and northwest respectively and I was on the southern shore of a lake looking at a mountain in the north. So basically, the mountain is in the shadows during both golden hours.

I was pretty disappointed but was determined not to show my wife that I messed up the one thing I claim to be good at, planning. So kept myself busy trying to find interesting compositions. Thankfully as the sun rose a bit warm golden light started to filter in through the sides of the mountain and melt the fog above the water providing a surreal landscape scene. I took countless shots here and posted them.

Recently I have been going over these old images and I realized while I have a lot of wide shots, I didn’t have a lit of tight crops of the scene. If I could give my younger self a bit of advice, it would be to use tighter focal lengths on scenes that tempt you to go wide. They have their own unique beauty and the detailed shots are usually not as common as wider shots of grand vistas.

Yup, this was the scene I was met with one week after my previous shot. It was cold! Single digits cold! I accidentally dunked my boots through the...

Aurora borealis over Trillium Lake during G4 solar storm of June 2015, Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon, USA.

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I've spent many sunrises and sunsets here. Last weekend my wife and I had maternity pictures taken here by Jeff Barnhart. Pretty special place place...

I realized that yesterday might very well be the last time I am able to shoot a sunset without taking off an afternoon (this weekend sunset comes an...

Sunset, Trillium Lake, Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon.

A surprising sunset the other day and a kindly left-behind rowboat made for a worthwhile...

A small storm creeps over Mt Hood as the sun sets while fog develops above the Sandy River. Call me nieve if you wish, but I am generally content to...

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The Jonsurd point, near Sandy, OR is a short drive from Portland and has a stunning view of the majestic Mount Hood. I had planned this location for a sunrise shot and we managed to get out on time from our hotel. I had marked the spot on m map app but as we were driving we could see the sun coming up behind and were in a hurry to get to the marked spot. When the app finally said we are at the spot I was a bit taken aback by the fact there literally was no place to park. Since I didn’t have much time I put hazard lights on and made sure my wife was in the driver's seat while I set up for the shot. It felt weird as from my location I couldn’t really see the Sandy river as I have seen from other shots in this location. But I didn’t have much time before the morning light faded, so I went ahead with my shots.

Only after we started back we noticed that the marked point was a bit off to the south. Google failed me by wrongly locating the spot I marked on the app. Anyways it was a decent shot even though I didn’t get the location correct. I'd hope to return here again and get a proper sunrise.

Mount Hood Trillium Lake

Taking a break from the NZ uploads. This is a shot of Marianne's taken on a still evening last year at Trillium Lake with...

Sunset, Trillium Lake, Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon.

Someone was nice enough to leave a rowboat behind for me.

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From my archives. Another view of Mount Hood and fisherman. Sorry, I've been busy and away for a while and will try to catch up with all of you...

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